crew
noun
[ kruː ]
• a group of people who work on and operate a ship, aircraft, etc.
• "he was one of nine members of the crew killed when the plane went down"
• a group of people who work closely together.
• "a film crew"
Similar:
team,
company,
unit,
party,
working party,
gang,
shift,
line-up,
squad,
force,
corps,
posse,
workers,
employees,
staff,
crew
verb
• provide (a craft or vehicle) with a group of people to operate it.
• "normally the boat is crewed by five people"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French creue ‘augmentation, increase’, feminine past participle of croistre ‘grow’, from Latin crescere . The original sense was ‘band of soldiers serving as reinforcements’; hence it came to denote any organized armed band or, generally, a company of people (late 16th century).
crew
verb
• past of crow2.
crow
verb
• (of a cock) utter its characteristic loud cry.
• "she was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing"
• (of a person) express great pride or triumph, especially in a tone of gloating satisfaction.
• "Ruby crowed with delight"
Similar:
boast,
brag,
trumpet,
show off,
bluster,
swagger,
swank,
gloat,
be smug,
congratulate oneself,
preen oneself,
pride oneself,
pat oneself on the back,
sing one's own praises,
glory in,
exult in,
triumph over,
parade,
flaunt,
talk big,
blow hard,
rub it in,
lay it on thick,
shoot one's mouth off,
blow one's own trumpet,
skite,
vaunt,
roister,
rodomontade,
gasconade,
Origin:
Old English crāwan, of West Germanic origin; related to German krähen, also to crow1; ultimately imitative.
