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swarm 音标拼音: [sw'ɔrm] n. 群,大群,蜂群
vi. 群集,聚集一块,云集,爬树
vt. 挤满,爬(树) 群,大群,蜂群群集,聚集一块,云集,爬树挤满,爬(树) swarm n 1: a moving crowd [ synonym: { drove}, { horde}, { swarm}] 2: a group of many things in the air or on the ground; " a swarm of insects obscured the light"; " clouds of blossoms"; " it discharged a cloud of spores" [ synonym: { swarm}, { cloud}] v 1: be teeming, be abuzz; " The garden was swarming with bees"; " The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; " her mind pullulated with worries" [ synonym: { teem}, { pullulate}, { swarm}] 2: move in large numbers; " people were pouring out of the theater"; " beggars pullulated in the plaza" [ synonym: { pour}, { swarm}, { stream}, { teem}, { pullulate}] Swarm \ Swarm\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Swarmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Swarming}.] 1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. [ 1913 Webster] Every place swarms with soldiers. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To abound; to be filled ( with). -- Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To breed multitudes. [ 1913 Webster] Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Swarm \ Swarm\, v. i. [ Cf. { Swerve}.] To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See { Shin}. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. -- W. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster]
Swarm \ Swarm\, n. [ OE. swarm, AS. swearm; akin to D. zwerm, G. schwarm, OHG. swaram, Icel. svarmr a tumult, Sw. sv[ aum] rm a swarm, Dan. svaerm, and G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz, Skr. svar to sound, and perhaps to E. swear. [ root] 177. Cf. { Swerve}, { Swirl}.] 1. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. " A deadly swarm of hornets." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. " A swarm of bees." -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites. [ 1913 Webster] Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [ Italy]. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Multitude; crowd; throng. [ 1913 Webster]
Swarm \ Swarm\, v. t. To crowd or throng. -- Fanshawe. [ 1913 Webster] 145 Moby Thesaurus words for " swarm": a mass of, a world of, abound, abound with, army, assemble, beset, bevy, bristle with, bunch, bunch up, burst with, charm, clot, cloud, cluster, clutter, collect, come together, congregate, converge, copulate, couple, covey, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crowd, date, drove, emigrate, emigration, expatriate, expatriation, fill, flight, flit, flock, flock together, flocks, flood, flow, flow together, forgather, fuse, gaggle, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, hail, herd, herd together, hive, horde, host, huddle, immigrate, immigration, in- migrate, in- migration, infest, infestation, intermigrate, intermigration, invade, invasion, jam, know no bounds, large amount, league, legion, link, lots, lousiness, luxuriate, many, mass, masses of, meet, merge, migrate, migration, mill, mob, muchness, multitude, murmuration, muster, nest, numbers, out- migrate, out- migration, overabound, overbrim, overflow, overgrow, overrun, overrunning, overspill, overspread, overspreading, overswarm, overswarming, pack, passage, plague, plurality, pullulate, quantities, quite a few, rally, rally around, ravage, remigrate, remigration, rendezvous, rout, ruck, run, run riot, scores, seethe, shoal, skein, spill over, spring, stream, superabound, surge, swarm with, swarming, take wing, teem, teem with, teeming, throng, throng with, tidy sum, transmigrate, transmigration, trek, unite, watch, worlds of
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