CREW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crew mean? 

• CREW (noun)
  The noun CREW has 4 senses:

1. the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)

2. an organized group of workmen

3. an informal body of friends

4. the team of men manning a racing shell

  Familiarity information: CREW used as a noun is uncommon.

• CREW (verb)
  The verb CREW has 1 sense:

1. serve as a crew member on

  Familiarity information: CREW used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("crew" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Meronyms (members of "crew"):

co-pilot; copilot (a relief pilot on an airplane)

crew member; crewman (a member of a flight crew)

submariner (a member of the crew of a submarine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crew"):

air crew; aircrew (the crew of an aircraft)

merchant marine (the crew of a merchant vessel)

Holonyms ("crew" is a member of...):

company; ship's company (crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship)

Derivation:

crew (serve as a crew member on)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An organized group of workmen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

crew; gang; work party

Hypernyms ("crew" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Meronyms (members of "crew"):

crewman (a member of a work crew)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crew"):

shift (a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time)

detail (a crew of workers selected for a particular task)

chain gang (a gang of convicts chained together)

ground-service crew; ground crew (the crew of technicians and mechanics who service aircraft on the ground)

road gang (a gang of road workers)

section gang (a work crew assigned to a section of a railroad)

stage crew (crew of workers who move scenery or handle properties in a theatrical production)

Holonyms ("crew" is a member of...):

hands; manpower; men; work force; workforce (the force of workers available)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An informal body of friends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

bunch; crew; crowd; gang

Context example:

he still hangs out with the same crowd

Hypernyms ("crew" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The team of men manning a racing shell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("crew" is a kind of...):

squad; team (a cooperative unit (especially in sports))

Derivation:

crew (serve as a crew member on)

• CREW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crew    ... he / she / it crews   
Past simple: crewed   
Past participle: crewed   
-ing form: crewing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serve as a crew member on

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "crew" is one way to...):

man (provide with workers)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

crew (the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.))

crew (the team of men manning a racing shell)

 Context examples 

The words were hardly out of her mouth when the godless crew returned, dragging another young girl along with them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I asked the man how the crew came home if they only had six seconds of fuel left?

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Oceanographic ship Ary Rongel set off Wednesday (Oct. 11) from Rio de Janeiro with 107 crew members to provide support for Brazil’s scientific research projects in Antarctica.

(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)

He was the last surviving member of the Voskhod programme crew.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

“We take the risk, but we are not so ignorant as you believe us. Next, you say you don't like the crew. Are they not good seamen?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Before we took shipping, I was often asked by some of the crew, whether I had performed the ceremony above mentioned?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

All of them—the whole kit and crew.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But my mind misdoubts me as to these Winchester men who have come with Sir Oliver, for they appear to be a very ungodly crew.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s Walker, of the Rose cutter, who, with thirteen men, engaged three French privateers with crews of a hundred and forty-six.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The crew were a set of ruffians, specially picked for the job.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)