The difference between Crew and Crowd

When used as nouns, crew means any company of people, whereas crowd means a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

When used as verbs, crew means to be a member of a vessel's crew, whereas crowd means to press forward.

check bellow for the other definitions of Crew and Crowd

  1. Crew as a noun (obsolete):

    A group of people together Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng. 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. A group of people working together on a task. The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast. A close group of friends. A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker. A group of Rovers. A hip-hop group A rowing team manning a single shell.

    Examples:

    "If you need help, please contact a member of the crew."

    "The crews of the two ships got into a fight."

    "The crews competed to cut the most timber."

    "There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!"

    "The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night."

    "I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's."

  2. Crew as a noun (plural: crew):

    A person in a crew A member of the crew of a vessel or plant. A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast. A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.

    Examples:

    "One crew died in the accident."

    "There were three actors and six crew on the set."

    "The officers and crew assembled on the deck."

    "There are quarters for three officers and five crew."

  3. Crew as a noun (sports, rowing, US, uncountable):

    The sport of competitive rowing.

  1. Crew as a verb (transitive, _, and, _, intransitive):

    To be a member of a vessel's crew

    Examples:

    "We crewed together on a fishing boat last year."

    "The ship was crewed by fifty sailors."

  2. Crew as a verb:

    To be a member of a work or production crew

    Examples:

    "The film was crewed and directed by students."

  3. Crew as a verb:

    To supply workers or sailors for a crew

  4. Crew as a verb (nautical):

    To do the proper work of a sailor

    Examples:

    "The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient."

  5. Crew as a verb (nautical):

    To take on, recruit (new) crew

  1. Crew as a verb (British, archaic):

    To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.

    Examples:

    "It was still dark when the cock crew."

  1. Crew as a noun (British, dialectal):

    A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

  1. Crew as a noun:

    The Manx shearwater.

  1. Crowd as a verb (intransitive):

    To press forward; to advance by pushing.

    Examples:

    "The man crowded into the packed room."

  2. Crowd as a verb (intransitive):

    To press together or collect in numbers

    Examples:

    "They crowded through the archway and into the park."

    "synonyms: swarm throng crowd in"

  3. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

    Examples:

    "He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."

  4. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To fill by pressing or thronging together

  5. Crowd as a verb (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off"):

    To push, to press, to shove.

    Examples:

    "They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk."

  6. Crowd as a verb (nautical):

    To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

  7. Crowd as a verb (nautical, of a, square-rigged ship, transitive):

    To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

  8. Crowd as a verb (transitive):

    To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

  1. Crowd as a noun:

    A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

    Examples:

    "After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors."

  2. Crowd as a noun:

    Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

    Examples:

    "There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing."

  3. Crowd as a noun (with definite article):

    The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

  4. Crowd as a noun:

    A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

    Examples:

    "That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age."

  1. Crowd as a noun (obsolete):

  2. Crowd as a noun:

    A fiddle.

  1. Crowd as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

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