crew

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

crews

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

crew

past (v2)

crewed

past participle (v3)

crewed

present participle

crewing

3rd person singular

crews

Noun

Noun

×

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A group of people together

   • The crews competed to cut the most timber.
   • There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!
   • I’d look out for that whole crew down at Jack’s.

2. 2.The sport of competitive rowing.

   • Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.

3. 3.A person in a crew

   • One crew died in the accident.
   • The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
   • There were three actors and six crew on the set.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To do the proper work of a sailor.

   • The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.

2. 2.To be a member of a vessel's crew.

   • The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
   • We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
   • On 3 Feb 1982 at Podmoscovnoe in the USSR, a Mil Mi-26 heavy-lift helicopter (NATO code-name "Halo"), crewed by G.V. Alfeurov and L.A. Indeyev (co-pilot), lifted a total mass of 6,560 ft.

3. 3.To be a member of a work or production crew.

   • The film was crewed and directed by students.

4. 4.To supply workers or sailors for a crew.

   • Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.
   • The seafood companies crewed huge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing.

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