The difference between Crowd and General public
When used as nouns, crowd means a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order, whereas general public means those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station.
Crowd is also verb with the meaning: to press forward.
check bellow for the other definitions of Crowd and General public
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Crowd as a verb (intransitive):
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
Examples:
"The man crowded into the packed room."
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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"
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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."
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Crowd as a verb (transitive):
To fill by pressing or thronging together
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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."
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Crowd as a verb (nautical):
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
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Crowd as a verb (nautical, of a, square-rigged ship, transitive):
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
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Crowd as a verb (transitive):
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
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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."
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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."
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Crowd as a noun (with definite article):
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
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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."
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Crowd as a noun (obsolete):
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Crowd as a noun:
A fiddle.
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Crowd as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
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General public as a noun:
Those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.
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General public as a noun:
Members of the public not in the attentive public of any given issue; laypeople.