SWARM
\swˈɔːm], \swˈɔːm], \s_w_ˈɔː_m]\
Definitions of SWARM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
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be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
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a group of many insects; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "a cloud of butterflies"
By Princeton University
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move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
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be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
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A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
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Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
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Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
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To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
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To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
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To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
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To abound; to be filled (with).
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To breed multitudes.
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To crowd or throng.
By Oddity Software
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A large number or crowd, as of insects, in motion; a hive of bees, or a large number of them, with a queen, leaving one hive to find another.
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To throng together, move about in great numbers; as, people swarmed everywhere; to be crowded; as, the street swarms with people; to leave a hive in order to make a new colony, as bees.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A body of humming or buzzing insects: a cluster of insects, esp. of bees: a great number: throng.
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To gather as bees: to appear in a crowd: to throng: to abound: to breed multitudes.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To come or bring forth in swarms; throng.
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To send out a new colony, as bees.
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A large number, as of bees; a throng.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A large number of minute motile organisms viewed collectively; departure of a number of bees from one hive to form another.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, German] A large number of small animals or insects, especially when in motion;- specifically, a great number of honey bees which emigrate from a hive at once, under the direction of a queen ; or a like body of bees united and settled permanently in a hive ;-any great number or multitude.
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