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Crew can be a noun or a verb.
crew used as a noun:
- A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat or airplane
"If you need help, please contact a member of the crew." - A member of the crew of a vessel or plant
"One crew died in the accident." - A member of a ship's company who is not an officer
"The officers and crew assembled on the deck." - The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast
"There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!" - A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast
"There were three actors and six crew on the set." - A group of people working together on a task
"The crews competed to cut the most timber." - A close group of friends
"I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's." - A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker
- A hip-hop group
- The sport of competitive rowing
- A rowing team manning a single shell
- A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
crew used as a verb:
- To be a member of a vessel's crew
"We crewed together on a fishing boat last year." - To be a member of a work or production crew
"The film was crewed and directed by students." - To supply workers or sailors for a crew
- To do the proper work of a sailor
"The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient." - To take on, recruit (new) crew
- To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.
"It was still dark when the cock crew."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is crew?
- Noun usage: If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.
- Noun usage: The crews of the two ships got into a fight.
- Noun usage: One crew died in the accident.
- Noun usage: The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
- Noun usage: There are quarters for three officers and five crew.
- Noun usage: There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!
- Noun usage: The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
- Noun usage: There were three actors and six crew on the set.
- Noun usage: The crews competed to cut the most timber.
- Noun usage: I'd look out for that whole crew down at Jack's.
- Verb usage: We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
- Verb usage: The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
- Verb usage: The film was crewed and directed by students.
- Verb usage: The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
- Verb usage: It was still dark when the cock crew.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of crew are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of crew, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
