Crew
[kruː] or [krʊ]
Definition
(noun.) the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.).
(noun.) the team of men manning a racing shell.
(verb.) serve as a crew member on.
Inputed by Juana--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The Manx shearwater.
(n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
(n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
(n.) 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.
(-) imp. of Crow
(imp.) of Crow
Inputed by Elizabeth
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Company, gang, band, set, horde, party.
Typist: Melba
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Complement, company, gang, herd, set, miscellany, horde, swarm, band
ANT:Supercargo, bevy, galaxy, constellation, picking, cream, elite
Checker: Scott
Definition
n. a company squad or gang often in a bad or contemptuous sense: a ship's company.
pa.t. of Crow.
Typist: Serena
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a crew getting ready to leave port, some unforseen{sic} circumstance will cause you to give up a journey from which you would have gained much. To see a crew working to save a ship in a storm, denotes disaster on land and sea. To the young, this dream bodes evil.
Editor: Rena
Examples
- I'll sing the 'Jovial Crew,' or any other song, when a weak old man would cry his eyes out. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- This may explain the absence of the crew, he said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Hasn't ye 'eard that devil's spawn of a capting an' is mates knockin' the bloomin' lights outen 'arf the crew? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I asked, whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air, about the time he first discovered me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The boat, crew and passengers were brought ashore to me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In fine, the ship was lost, the crew perished. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The company has its own logging crews that cut the timber and pile it on flat cars, whence it is transported over a private railroad until it arrives at the company sawmills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They were in the end all sunk, and, with the exception of two or three prisoners, the crews drowned. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The crews were rotten with scurvy; there was little water and that bad, and putrid biscuit to eat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When France had quieted somewhat England began that policy of aggression on the sea toward American ships and crews that was to lead to the War of 1812. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- One passes the loading docks, where crews of six to eight men each, working as a unit, remove the bodies and wheels from the chassis, and load them into freight cars. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Several of the craft were limping perceptibly, and seemed but barely under the control of their depleted crews. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The crews consisted of six men to a boat, armed with long poles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Checked by Leon