swarm

  • 11swarm — ‘group of insects’ [OE] and swarm ‘climb’ [16] are distinct words. The former comes from a prehistoric Germanic *swarmaz, which also produced German schwarm, and is closely related to Dutch swerm, Swedish svärm, and Danish sværm. It may go back… …

    Word origins

  • 12Swarm — Swarm, v. t. To crowd or throng. Fanshawe. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 13Swarm — спутниковая миссия Европейского Космического Агентства (ЕКА), предназначенная для изучения Магнитного поля Земли. Миссия будет состоять из трёх спутников на различных полярных орбитах высотой от 450 до 550 км[1]. Запуск будет осуществлён в… …

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  • 14swarm — swarm·er; swarm; …

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  • 15swarm — [n] large, moving group army, bevy, blowout, concourse, covey, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, jam, mass, mob, multitude, myriad, pack, press, push, school, shoal, throng, troop, turnout; concepts 397,417,432 swarm [v] move forward …

    New thesaurus

  • 16swarm — index assemblage, mass (body of persons), meet Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 17swarm — vb *teem, abound, overflow …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 18swarm — v. 1)(d; intr.) ( to crowd ) to swarm around (the autograph seekers swarmed around the actor) 2) (d; intr.) ( to throng ) to swarm into (to swarm into an auditorium) 3) (d; intr.) ( to throng ) to swarm over, through (to swarm through the… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 19swarm — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English swearm; akin to Old High German swaram swarm and probably to Latin susurrus hum Date: before 12th century 1. a. a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 20swarm — {{11}}swarm (n.) cloud of bees or other insects, O.E. swearm, from P.Gmc. *swarmaz (Cf. O.S., M.L.G. swarm, Swed. svärm, M.Du. swerm, O.H.G. swarm, Ger. Schwarm swarm; O.N. svarmr tumult ), usually derived from PIE imitative root *swer (see… …

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