Swarm

[swɔːm] or [swɔrm]

解释:

(noun.) a group of many things in the air or on the ground; 'a swarm of insects obscured the light'; 'clouds of blossoms'; 'it discharged a cloud of spores'.

编辑:默里--From WordNet

解释:

(v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.

(n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.

(n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.

(n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.

(v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.

(v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.

(v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.

(v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).

(v. i.) To breed multitudes.

(v. t.) To crowd or throng.

校对:威拉德

同义词及近义词：

n. Multitude (especially of winged insects), crowd, throng, concourse.

v. n. [1]. Crowd, throng, gather in a swarm.[2]. Be crowded, be thronged, be filled.

乔琳整理

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Multitude, crowd, throng, cluster, host, mass, press, posse, bevy, flock,troop, drove, herd, horde, crew, gang, shoal, army, host, regiment, myriad,inundation

ANT:Paucity, sprinkling, scantling, rarity

埃弗雷特编辑

解释:

n. a body of humming or buzzing insects: a cluster of insects esp. of bee: a great number: throng.—v.i. to gather as bees: to appear in a crowd: to throng: to abound: to breed multitudes.—v.t. to cause to breed in swarms.

v.i. to climb a tree by scrambling up by means of arms and legs (with up).

整理:史黛丝