inglese > italiano | |
crowd | |
1. sost. folla, calca, massa di persone | |
the crowd was so thick we couldn't move - la calca era così spessa che non potevamo muoverci | |
there was a crowd waiting for the bus - c'era una folla ad aspettare l'autobus | |
2. sost. ammasso, massa, mucchio indistinto di oggetti | |
there was a crowd of toys under the couch - c'era un mucchio di giocattoli sotto il divano | |
3. sost. (con l'articolo determinativo) il popolo, il popolino, il volgo | |
4. verb. affollare | |
many people were crowding the street - molte persone affollavano la strada | |
the hall was crowded with people - la sala era affollata di gente | |
5. verb. pressare, spintonare | |
the mob was crowding me - la folla mi pressava | |
6. verb. (marina) spiegare (le vele) | |
to crowd the sail - spiegare le vele | |
7. verb. affollarsi, radunarsi, accalcarsi | |
the whole company crowded around the fire - l'intera compagnia si radunò intorno al fuoco | |
inglese > inglese | |
crowd | |
1. v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing. | |
The man crowded into the packed room. | |
2. v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers | |
They crowded through the archway and into the park. | |
3. v. To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. | |
He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen. | |
4. v. To fill by pressing or thronging together | |
5. v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove. | |
They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk. | |
6. v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way. | |
7. v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster. | |
8. v. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. | |
9. subst. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. | |
After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors. | |
10. subst. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. | |
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing. | |
11. subst. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. | |
12. subst. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest. | |
That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age. | |
13. subst. (obsolete) alternative form of crwth | |
14. subst. (now dialectal) A fiddle. | |
15. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle. | |
italiano > inglese | |
folla | |
1. subst. crowd; mob | |
2. subst. multitude, host | |