swarm
[swɔrm]
n. 群, 群, 蜂群, 蜂群

vi. 群, 群集, 聚集块, 云集, 攀

vt. 挤满, 爬, 攀

[医] 丛集, 群集



swarm
[ noun ]

1. a moving crowd

<noun.group>

2. a group of many things in the air or on the ground

<noun.group>
a swarm of insects obscured the light
clouds of blossoms
it discharged a cloud of spores

[ verb ]

1. be teeming, be abuzz

<verb.stative> pullulate teem
The garden was swarming with bees
The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen
her mind pullulated with worries

2. move in large numbers

<verb.motion> pour pullulate stream teem
people were pouring out of the theater
beggars pullulated in the plaza

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.

2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to
congregate in a multitude. --Chaucer.

3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings
in motion.

Every place swarms with soldiers. --Spenser.

4. To abound; to be filled (with). --Atterbury.

5. To breed multitudes.

Not so thick swarmed once the soil
Bedropped with blood of Gorgon. --Milton.


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.]

At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for
those who could swarm up and seize it. --W. Coxe.


Swarm \Swarm\, n. [OE. swarm, AS. swearm; akin to D. zwerm, G.
schwarm, OHG. swaram, Icel. svarmr a tumult, Sw. sv["a]rm a
swarm, Dan. sv[ae]rm, 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.

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.

3. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in
motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of
meteorites.

Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves
in every part of it [Italy]. --Addison.

Syn: Multitude; crowd; throng.


Swarm \Swarm\, v. t.
To crowd or throng. --Fanshawe.