crew
See also: Crew
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- A group of people together
- (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser
- There a noble crew / Of lords and ladies stood on every side.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Spenser
- 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.
- The crews of the two ships got into a fight.
- A group of people working together on a task.
- The crews competed to cut the most timber.
- (art) 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.
- (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
- I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.
- (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
- 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
- He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
- And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
- They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,
- But his soul is marching on.
- 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
- (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
- (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
- (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
- 1888, W.B. Woodgate, Boating, page 71:
- If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar.
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- (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
- A person in a crew
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- One crew died in the accident.
- (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
- There were three actors and six crew on the set.
- (nautical, plural: 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.
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
- The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
- 1989, Benjamin Spock & Mary Morgan, Spock on Spock, →ISBN, page 71:
- Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
Synonyms
- (group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands, complement
- (group engaged in a task): team, gang
- (non-cast dramatic personnel): staff, stagehands
- (social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
- (group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot, gang
- (hip-hop group): posse, band, group
- (member of a crew): crewer, member; nautical only: sailor, seaman
- (non-officer ship worker): seaman
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
group of people operating a large facility or piece of equipment
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any company of people
non-officer nautical personnel
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group of people working on common task
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arts: non-actor members of a theatrical stage production
informal: group of friends or associates
hip-hop group
member of a crew
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Verb
crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)
- (transitive and intransitive) 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.
- To be a member of a work or production crew
- The film was crewed and directed by students.
- To supply workers or sailors for a crew
- (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
- The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
- (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
Translations
to be a member of a vessel's crew
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to be a member of a work or production crew
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to supply workers or sailors for a crew
nautical: to do the proper work of a sailor
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Verb
crew
Etymology 3
Probably of Brythonic origin.
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
- 2004, Gillian Cross, On the Edge, →ISBN, page 7:
- Between the shippon and the pig-crew, with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.
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Noun
crew (plural crews)
- The Manx shearwater.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for crew in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Gallery
- Crew of a spaceship
- Crew of a rowing shell
- Crew working on a race car
- A hip-hop crew
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