crew

sustantivo

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   obsoletoA group of people together Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.

   There a noble crew / Of Lordes and Ladies stood on every side.

   Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?

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   A group of people together 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.

   He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.

3. 3

   A group of people together A group of people working together on a task.

   The crews competed to cut the most timber.

4. 4

   A group of people together 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.

5. 5

   informalA group of people together A close group of friends.

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

6. 6

   A group of people together 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.

   Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers.

7. 7

   A group of people together A group of Rovers.

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   jergaA group of people together A hip-hop or b-boying group.

   And Jay cuts the records every day of the week / And we are the crew that can never be meek

   The most popular and critically acclaimed rap and deejay “crews”—Run-D.M.C., Whodini, L.L. Cool J, the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, Public Enemy, Full Force, Salt & Pepa, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Mantronix, U.T.F.O., et al.—were spawned on that city's streets.

   We decided we needed another rapper in the crew and spent months looking.

   In b-boying culture, a group of b-boys or b-girls who dance and battle together are referred to as a crew.

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   A group of people together A rowing team manning a single shell.

   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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    A person in a crew A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.

    One crew died in the accident.

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    A person in a crew A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.

    There were three actors and six crew on the set.

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    A person in a 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.

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    The sport of competitive rowing.

    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.

    Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.

verbo

1. 1

   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.

   On 3 Feb 1982 at Podmoscovnoe in the USSR, a Mil Mi-26 heavy-lift helicopter (NATO code-name "Halo"), crewed by G.V. Alfeurov and L.A. Indeyev (co-pilot), lifted a total mass of 6,560 ft.

2. 2

   To be a member of a work or production crew.

   The film was crewed and directed by students.

3. 3

   To supply workers or sailors for a crew.

   The seafood companies crewed huge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing.

   Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.

4. 4

   To do the proper work of a sailor.

   The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.

5. 5

   To take on, recruit (new) crew.

   The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.

verbo

1. 1

   También una forma de crowarcaicosimple past of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).

   It was still dark when the cock crew.

   And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more."

sustantivo

1. 1

   A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

   Between the shippon and the pig-crew, with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.

sustantivo

1. 1

   anticuadoThe Manx shearwater.

verbo

1. 1

   También una forma de crysimple past and past participle of cry

   the cry I crew

Formas

plural

crews

pasado

crewed

participio

crewed

gerundio

crewing

3.ª persona del singular

crews