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Unit vs. Crew — What's the Difference?

Unit vs. Crew — What's the Difference?

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Unit

An individual, group, structure, or other entity regarded as an elementary structural or functional constituent of a whole.

Crew

A crew is a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard.

Unit

A group regarded as a distinct entity within a larger group.

Crew

A group of people working together; a gang
A crew of stagehands.

Unit

A mechanical part or module.
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Crew

(Slang) A group of people, especially friends or associates.

Unit

An entire apparatus or the equipment that performs a specific function.

Crew

All personnel operating or serving aboard a ship.

Unit

A precisely specified quantity in terms of which the magnitudes of other quantities of the same kind can be stated.

Crew

All of a ship's personnel except the officers.

Unit

(Medicine) The quantity of a vaccine, serum, drug, or other agent necessary to produce a specific effect.

Crew

All personnel operating or serving aboard an aircraft in flight.

Unit

A fixed amount of scholastic study used as a basis for calculating academic credits, usually measured in hours of classroom instruction or laboratory work.

Crew

A team of rowers, as of a racing shell.

Unit

A section of an academic course focusing on a selected theme
A unit on Native Americans.

Crew

The sport of rowing.

Unit

The number immediately to the left of the decimal point in the Arabic numeral system.

Crew

To serve as a member of a crew
Crewed on a sloop.

Unit

The lowest positive whole number; one.

Crew

To serve as a crew member on
The space station will be crewed by a team of eight people.

Unit

An element of a ring with a multiplicative inverse.

Crew

A past tense of crow2.

Unit

(mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.

Crew

A group of people together

Unit

(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
The centimetre is a unit of length.

Crew

(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.

Unit

The number one.

Crew

A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.

Unit

Ellipsis of international unit
This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.

Crew

A group of people working together on a task.
The crews competed to cut the most timber.

Unit

An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
He was a member of a special police unit.

Crew

(arts) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!
The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.

Unit

A member of a military organization.
The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units. (i.e., 20 tanks)

Crew

A close group of friends.
I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.

Unit

(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.

Crew

A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.

Unit

Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.
This air-conditioner is the most efficient unit we sell.

Crew

(Scouting) A group of Rovers.

Unit

A measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
The new apartment complex will have 50 units.

Crew

A hip-hop or b-boying group.

Unit

Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.

Crew

(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.

Unit

An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.

Crew

A person in a crew

Unit

A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.

Crew

(plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
One crew died in the accident.

Unit

With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.

Crew

A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
There were three actors and six crew on the set.

Unit

(algebra) The identity element, neutral element.

Crew

A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
There are quarters for three officers and five crew.

Unit

(algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
Regular element

Crew

The sport of competitive rowing.

Unit

(category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.

Crew

A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

Unit

(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.

Crew

To be a member of a vessel's crew
We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.

Unit

(UK) A unit of alcohol.

Crew

To be a member of a work or production crew
The film was crewed and directed by students.

Unit

One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).

Crew

To supply workers or sailors for a crew

Unit

(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.

Crew

(nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.

Unit

A work unit.

Crew

(nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew

Unit

A physically large person.

Crew

The Manx shearwater.

Unit

A penis, especially a large one.

Crew

A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
There a noble crewOf lords and ladies stood on every side.
Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?

Unit

For each unit.
We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.

Crew

The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.

Unit

(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.

Crew

In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

Unit

A single thing or person.

Crew

The men who man a ship or aircraft

Unit

The least whole number; one.
Units are the integral parts of any large number.

Crew

An organized group of workmen

Unit

A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.

Crew

An informal body of friends;
He still hangs out with the same crowd

Unit

Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.

Crew

The team of men manning a racing shell

Unit

A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

Crew

Serve as a crew member on

Unit

Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange;
The dollar is the United States unit of currency
A unit of wheat is a bushel
Change per unit volume

Unit

An individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole;
The reduced the number of units and installations
The word is a basic linguistic unit

Unit

An organization regarded as part of a larger social group;
The coach said the offensive unit did a good job
After the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit

Unit

A single undivided whole;
An idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another

Unit

A single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else;
Units of nucleic acids

Unit

An assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity;
How big is that part compared to the whole?
The team is a unit

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