Tra từ crowd - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a capacity crowd (=the largest number of people that can fit in a place)
▪ A capacity crowd of 40,000 turned up at the stadium.
a football crowd
▪ We got caught up in a noisy football crowd.
appreciative audience/crowd
crowd control
▪ Police used fire hoses and dogs for crowd control.
crowd gathered
▪ A crowd gathered to watch the fight.
crowd pleaser
crowd puller
▪ The exhibition has been a big crowd puller.
crowded (=with a lot of people)
▪ The streets get very crowded at weekends.
crowded
▪ In the summer the beaches get very crowded.
enthusiastic crowd/audience
▪ It’s nice to see such an enthusiastic crowd at the match.
home team/game/crowd/club etc
▪ The home team took the lead after 25 minutes.
overcrowded/crowded conditions
▪ Families here are living in dirty, overcrowded conditions.
sellout crowd
▪ a sellout crowd of 32,000
stood out in a crowd
▪ She always stood out in a crowd.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
big
▪ In the postwar euphoria big crowds flocked regularly to the Oval to see the attacking cricket on which Surridge insisted.
▪ Moore has never brought in big crowds on her own.
▪ They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition.
▪ Our guys respond well to big crowds.
▪ Pavements are wide and there's room for a big, happy crowd.
▪ Fifty was a big crowd for a University of Connecticut game.
▪ There's another high bore tommorrow - when big weekend crowds are expected to line the banks to watch the surfing spectacular.
▪ This was their biggest crowd of the summer.
huge
▪ It attracts huge crowds to exhibitions and fetches high prices at auctions in New York, London and Paris.
▪ Stephenson drew huge, rabid crowds on his barnstorming tours of the Indiana countryside.
▪ The huge crowd spontaneously broke into applause.
▪ Stores all over Paris were mobbed Friday, with huge crowds massing outside stores even before opening time.
▪ Today, huge crowds gathered to watch John and girlfriend Jill Morrell launch their new book in Oxford.
▪ There was a huge crowd there.
▪ Royal Ascot would otherwise not be able to go ahead next Tuesday unless huge crowd restrictions were introduced.
▪ Then a day after being called up he picks up his first-ever win in front of a huge crowd.
large
▪ Very large crowds attended on the Friday, although not as vast as on the first day.
▪ Because of the large crowd expected, the city moved it from the A.L.
▪ Clubs did not compete with one another to attract larger crowds by reducing their prices.
▪ His patronage to confessors is attributed to the large crowds he attracted to the confessionals.
▪ Is it having people looking at you or having to speak to a large crowd when you have never done that before?
▪ His voice was vigorous and his tone was sharp as he spoke to large crowds at two campaign rallies.
▪ Otherwise, the plush arena and a large crowd might prove too much to handle.
sellout
▪ The sellout Forum crowd stood and applauded while play commenced.
▪ The sellout crowd of 19,925 certainly enjoyed watching Iverson score 47 points on 17-for-33 shooting in 44 minutes.
small
▪ Two lorries crammed with riot policemen arrived and fired tear-gas canisters, rapidly dispersing the small crowd, which included news photographers.
▪ A small crowd of living stood watching the growing crowd of dead.
▪ A small crowd gathered in the street and was watching through the shattered window.
▪ They came upon a small crowd gathered around a long wooden table that had posters of Sophia Loren hanging along the front.
▪ There was already a small crowd around the screaming child.
▪ To his chagrin, only a small crowd turned out to watch him.
▪ A small crowd had gathered, craning their necks towards David, and muttering.
▪ There was a small crowd of people around.
NOUN
capacity
▪ They didn't get the 60,000 capacity crowd.
▪ Her body was worn out from performing to a capacity crowd at Town Hall.
▪ There was a highly enthusiastic capacity crowd.
▪ The match will be all-ticket with an anticipated 25,000 capacity crowd and distribution arrangements will be announced shortly.
▪ A capacity crowd of 40,000 turned up.
▪ But there were no complaints from the capacity crowd at Darlington Civic Theatre on opening night.
▪ We haven't got the capacity crowd we expected.
control
▪ Nearly 400 road marshals will be involved in crowd control.
▪ He saw the storm-troopers practising karate, crowd control, baton practice and their skills with the knife and knuckleduster.
▪ The cop who'd collected her had been a crowd control unit, the full cyborg.
▪ Second, it gets a head start on the crowd control that the rest of the service will require.
▪ Lancashire introduced extra crowd control measures for the Test and the one-day international.
home
▪ The home crowd use other crossing points.
▪ He played before home crowds of 5, 000 for three coaches on teams that never won more than they lost.
▪ The home crowd definitely helped us.
▪ The first try came after five minutes and prompted a cheerful roar from the home crowd.
▪ A novelty for the home crowd at reserve matches in 1924-25 was music from gramophone records broadcast through a loudspeaker.
VERB
address
▪ Sukarno began to tour Java, addressing massive crowds on the theme of the awakening of national consciousness.
▪ Leaders of the opposition coalition Zajedno, or Together, address the crowd.
▪ Finbar O'Doherty was cheered loudly when he mounted the stairway to address the crowd.
▪ DiMaggio did not address the crowd, but when he lifted his arms to receive their cheers, no words were necessary.
▪ A mixture of sorrow and jubilation punctuated the voices of those who addressed the crowds.
▪ In addition to addressing the crowds as he journeyed through Galilee and around Jerusalem, he drew aside to be with his closest associates.
▪ He addressed a crowd of his civilian supporters at Baabda on Oct. 12, when he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
attract
▪ Models were attracting crowds unseen for years.
▪ He must have suspected that a Madness gig would attract a football crowd.
▪ To attract crowds large enough to fill up the ornate space, big spectacles were de rigueur.
▪ Clubs did not compete with one another to attract larger crowds by reducing their prices.
▪ Cole attracted crowds to Fillmore clubs.
▪ It attracts huge crowds to exhibitions and fetches high prices at auctions in New York, London and Paris.
▪ If the band don't attract a sell-out crowd, the promoter's risk has been minimized.
bring
▪ They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition.
▪ She brought the crowd to its feet after both her floor exercise and her vault, drawing team-high scores in both.
▪ Tell him to bring a crowd of law officers and a local judge to the inn.
▪ Somehow, in a quiet, under-stated way, Frank could always bring a crowd.
▪ And then in the final minute came the try that brought the crowd to their feet.
▪ Moore has never brought in big crowds on her own.
▪ Ripley brought the crowd to their feet with his stunning winner.
▪ Umphrey brought roars from the crowd with an exciting high bar routine.
cheer
▪ A till was hurled out into the cheering crowd, followed by burgers, potato chips and furniture.
▪ President Kennedy was welcomed in the summer of 1962 by a cheering crowd estimated at more than 1 million.
▪ Along the route they were greeted by cheering crowds and doused with rose water.
▪ It would certainly cheer up this crowd and give everyone something to talk about for the next week.
▪ Then he urged the cheering crowd to go out and prove the naysayers wrong and bring their friends to revivals.
disperse
▪ Two lorries crammed with riot policemen arrived and fired tear-gas canisters, rapidly dispersing the small crowd, which included news photographers.
▪ Tense soldiers detonated concussion grenades in an effort to disperse the crowds.
▪ Police used tear-gas, electric batons and sticks to disperse the crowds, arresting 20.
▪ Federal troops were used to disperse a crowd that tried to storm the jail.
▪ Several demonstrators were badly injured as police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd in Revolution Square last Saturday.
▪ They dispersed a crowd of whites and seized weapons in the black section of town.
▪ Police used water cannon to disperse a crowd on Portadown's Corcrain estate.
▪ We dispersed the crowds away from the area.
draw
▪ The railway draws a strange crowd before morning.
▪ Its summer concerts, featuring such stars as Harry Belafonte and Boz Scaggs, draw crowds.
▪ Henrietta's choral society concert draws a good crowd despite a dodgy venue in the backstreets of Catford.
▪ It drew the crowds, I guess.
▪ The Legionnaires march drew a large crowd of veterans, their families and some students.
▪ Despite their current run of bad luck, the Giants are drawing record crowds at Scottsdale Stadium.
▪ The all-Ireland press team should draw quite a crowd.
▪ Roz always drew attention in a crowd.
expect
▪ Organisers expect the crowds this year easily to exceed the record attendance of 170,000 over four days in 1992.
▪ The evening gets started early at 7: 30 p. m. and sells out early, with an expected crowd of 320.
▪ Sunderland also expect a big crowd for Friday night's £5,000 marathon challenge match.
▪ In its first season this summer, it has played to slightly larger-than-\\#expected crowds.
▪ The Scarlets are expecting a capacity 14,500 crowd to bring in around £70,000.
▪ But like others, she expects an overwhelming crowd.
▪ Middlesbrough have sold their full 4,000 allocation and Wolves expect a 20,000 crowd.
▪ An expected crowd of 250 will join Latin Jazz band Manteca and guests in a champagne toast at midnight.
gather
▪ It was the one pub where students could be guaranteed not to gather in jabbering crowds: the reason was the clientele.
▪ Chutra seemed ambivalent about the perpetually gathering crowds.
▪ Their conversation was gathering a small crowd.
mingle
▪ She mingled with the crowds of young, untidy foreigners who lounged around the base of the statue in Piccadilly Circus.
▪ And a short chubby woman with thick pebble-glass spectacles, Mary Dunn, mingled with the crowd.
▪ For a few minutes longer, she mingled with the crowd, exchanging a word here and there.
stand
▪ Yanto was one of those men who stood out in a crowd.
▪ A small crowd of living stood watching the growing crowd of dead.
▪ Nisodemus stood slightly ahead of the crowd, holding his hands in the air.
▪ Irvin stood before the crowd at Texas Stadium that day and blistered the fans who ripped Switzer.
▪ They stood amid the station crowds, arguing.
▪ Primo and the man stand facing the crowd.
▪ She had stood out in the crowd even amongst the beautiful beach children of San Francisco.
▪ And I was standing over with the crowd of my brothers and sisters.
tell
▪ Ten minutes later Castro reappeared and told the crowd he would finish his speech on television that same evening.
▪ One of the security guys started telling the crowd a lot of otter stories.
watch
▪ Southworth had his head turned, watching the crowds.
▪ A small crowd of living stood watching the growing crowd of dead.
▪ Then, as she watched, the crowd parted and a man came towards her.
▪ The fight was between five men who were being watched by a screaming crowd of about 60 onlookers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close/packed/crowded etc together
▪ The Beastline were standing close together, silhouetted against the sky.
▪ The main street in Lincoln is narrow, and the little houses are close together.
▪ These horses show relaxed, peaceful outlines, with friends standing particularly close together.
▪ They stood close together in silence, listening.
▪ Though they are close together on the couch, there is in fact a chasm between them.
▪ We draw close together to complete our plans.
follow the herd/crowd
▪ All they get is sad sheep for fans ... who just follow the crowd - try and be uncontroversial.
▪ But Viroli is not one simply to follow the herd.
▪ I follow the crowd back to a coffee shop.
▪ The only advice from Miss Doris was to follow the crowd.
two's company, three's a crowd
two's company, three's a crowd
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a crowd of angry protesters
▪ A crowd of reporters were waiting for her at the airport.
▪ a football crowd
▪ A huge crowd gathered to hear Mandela speak.
▪ An enormous crowd gathered to watch the parade.
▪ He wasn't with his usual crowd last night.
▪ I don't go to football games because I don't like big crowds.
▪ I guess the usual crowd will be at the party.
▪ I walked down Regent Street, with its crowds of tourists and Christmas shoppers.
▪ It may be necessary to change your child's school if they get in with a bad crowd.
▪ The exhibition is expected to attract large crowds of visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in the winter, cluster flies aggregate in thick black crowds jammed into cracks and crannies inside the house.
▪ He braced as he was swallowed up by the adoring crowd and swept toward the door by the moving mass.
▪ I turned back towards the crowd.
▪ I watched as he found Doriot and hand in hand they moved more deeply into the crowd.
▪ Immobile among the moving crowd, he stood there and watched.
▪ In this frigid season, crowds lined up to buy sugar, milk, chocolate and potatoes.
▪ It is surprising that no crowd reaction to the miracle is given.
▪ Teenagers with sporty slogans on the back of their jackets sat attentively amid the rest of the crowd.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
people
▪ I was anxious to get out as it was stifling in there with no ventilation and all these people crowded in.
▪ On the allotted day, some forty people crowded into an upstairs office at Vernon Yard.
▪ Another 2, 000 people crowded the lobby.
▪ When he stood for Parliament numbers of poor people crowded round the hustings demanding the payment of outstanding bills.
▪ The fights in Seattle were broken up with pepper spray when as many as 4,000 people crowded into the streets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close/packed/crowded etc together
▪ The Beastline were standing close together, silhouetted against the sky.
▪ The main street in Lincoln is narrow, and the little houses are close together.
▪ These horses show relaxed, peaceful outlines, with friends standing particularly close together.
▪ They stood close together in silence, listening.
▪ Though they are close together on the couch, there is in fact a chasm between them.
▪ We draw close together to complete our plans.
two's company, three's a crowd
two's company, three's a crowd
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A jumble of confused thoughts crowded my brain.
▪ A large group of people crowded around the screaming child.
▪ Angry protesters crowded the courthouse steps.
▪ Fans crowded around the rear entrance of the concert hall, hoping to catch a glimpse of the band.
▪ Shoppers crowded the town market.
▪ Stop crowding me! I need time to make this decision.
▪ Stop crowding me! There's plenty of room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An increase in the number of locally-issued debt could push yields higher by crowding out demand for government bonds.

crowd

I. crowd¹ S3 W2 /kraʊd/ noun
[Word Family: noun: crowd, overcrowding; adjective: crowded, overcrowded; verb: crowd]
1. [COUNTABLE]
a large group of people who have gathered together to do something, for example to watch something or protest about something
crowd of
　 ▪ a crowd of angry protesters
　 ▪ a crowd of 30,000 spectators
　 ▪ There were crowds of shoppers in the street.
　 ▪ A vast crowd gathered in the main square.
　 ▪ She mingled with the crowd of guests, exchanging greetings.
　 ▪ Saturday’s game was watched by a capacity crowd (=the maximum number of people that a sports ground etc can hold).
　 ▪ Troops fired tear gas and shots to disperse a crowd of 15,000 demonstrators.

2. [SINGULAR]
informal a group of people who know each other, work together etc:
　 ▪ I didn’t know him; he wasn’t one of the usual crowd.

3. the crowd
ordinary people, not unusual in any way:
　 ▪ You have to do things exceptionally well to stand out from the crowd (=be different from ordinary people).
　 ▪ He wanted to go unnoticed, to be one of the crowd.
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COLLOCATIONS
verbs
▪a crowd gathers
　 ▪ A large crowd had gathered to watch the procession go past.
▪a crowd cheers (=shouts to show praise, support etc)
　 ▪ The crowd cheered as the team came onto the pitch.
▪a crowd roars (=shouts in a very excited way)
　 ▪ As the band appeared the crowd roared in approval.
▪a crowd surges forward (=moves forward all together)
　 ▪ Police officers began to lose control and the crowd surged forward.
▪a crowd disperses/breaks up (=goes away in different directions)
　 ▪ Seeing there would be no more entertainment, the crowd began to disperse.
▪a crowd lines the street/route etc
　 ▪ A crowd lined the street to catch a glimpse of the president.
▪attract/draw a crowd
　 ▪ The ceremony is expected to draw a crowd of more than 1,000.
▪pull a crowd/pull in the crowds (=make a lot of people come to something)
　 ▪ Low prices always pull in the crowds.
▪disperse/break up a crowd (=make a crowd go away in different directions)
　 ▪ A few warning shots were fired in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
▪mingle/mix with the crowd (=join a crowd to be social or in order not to be noticed)
　 ▪ The actors went outside to talk to and mingle with the crowd.
adjectives
▪a big/large/huge crowd
　 ▪ A big crowd is expected tomorrow for the final match.
▪a good crowd (=a big one)
　 ▪ There was a good crowd on the first night of the show.
▪a capacity crowd (=the maximum number of people that a place can hold)
　 ▪ The band performed brilliantly to a capacity crowd.
▪a sellout crowd (=one that has bought all the tickets for something)
　 ▪ The team won in front of a sellout crowd of 17,765.
▪a record crowd (=the biggest one there has ever been)
　 ▪ They were playing before a record crowd of 50,000.
▪a bumper crowd (=a very big one)
　 ▪ As usual there was a bumper crowd at the festival.
phrases
▪a crowd of people
　 ▪ I pushed my way through the crowd of people.
▪a crowd of onlookers (=of people who stop to watch something that is happening)
　 ▪ A crowd of onlookers had gathered to see what all the fuss was about.
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THESAURUS
▪crowd a large number of people together in one place :
　 ▪ The exhibition is expected to attract large crowds of visitors.
▪mob a crowd of noisy and violent people who are difficult to control :
　 ▪ The mob set fire to cars and buildings.
▪mass a very large crowd which is not moving and which is very difficult to move through :
　 ▪ the mass of people in the station
▪horde a large crowd of people, especially people who are behaving in a way that you disapprove of or that annoys you :
　 ▪ the hordes of tourists on the island
▪droves [PLURAL]a crowd of people – used especially when you are talking about a crowd of people who move from one place to another :
　 ▪ The public came in droves to see the event.
▪throng literary a very large crowd :
　 ▪ A great throng had gathered to listen to his speech.
▪flock a large group of people of the same type, especially when they have a leader :
　 ▪ A flock of children were being shown through the museum.
▪pack a group of people of the same type, especially a group you do not approve of :
　 ▪ A pack of reporters shouted questions.
▪swarm a large crowd of people who are moving quickly in many directions in a very uncontrolled way :
　 ▪ a swarm of children in the playground
▪crush a crowd of people who are pressed close together :
　 ▪ There was such a crush on the Metro this morning.
▪multitude formal literary a very large number of people, especially ordinary people :
　 ▪ The Emperor came out to speak to the multitude.
⇨ group

II. crowd² verb
[Word Family: noun: crowd, overcrowding; adjective: crowded, overcrowded; verb: crowd]
[Language : Old English; Origin : crudan 'to press close']
1. [INTRANSITIVE ALWAYS + ADVERB/PREPOSITION]
if people crowd somewhere, they gather together in large numbers, filling a particular place
crowd into
　 ▪ Hundreds of people crowded into the church for the funeral.
crowd round/around
　 ▪ We all crowded round the table.
be crowded together
　 ▪ the rapid spread of infection in areas where people are crowded together

2. [TRANSITIVE]
if people or things crowd a place, there are a lot of them there:
　 ▪ Holidaymakers crowded the beaches.
　 ▪ Range after range of mountains crowd the horizon.

3. [TRANSITIVE]
if thoughts or ideas crowd your mind or memory, they fill it, not allowing you to think of anything else:
　 ▪ Strange thoughts and worries were crowding his mind.

4. [TRANSITIVE]

a) to make someone angry by moving too close to them:
　 ▪ Stop crowding me – there’s plenty of room.
b) especially American English to make someone angry or upset by making too many unfair demands on them
crowd in phrasal verb
if problems or thoughts crowd in on you, you cannot stop thinking about them
crowd in on
　 ▪ She shut her mind against the fears that crowded in on her.
crowd somebody/something ↔ out phrasal verb
to force someone or something out of a place or situation:
　 ▪ Supermarket chains have crowded out the smaller shops.