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CROWDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A situation in which people or things are crowded together
Example:
he didn't like the crowding on the beach
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("crowding" is a kind of...):
situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crowding"):
congestion; over-crowding (excessive crowding)
Derivation:
crowd (to gather together in large numbers)
crowd (cause to herd, drive, or crowd together)
crowd (fill or occupy to the point of overflowing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb crowd
Context examples:
I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
At our landing, the captain forced me to cover myself with his cloak, to prevent the rabble from crowding about me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Cells are characterized by columnar shape, crowding, and generally basal located nuclei.
(Mucosal Hyperplasia of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
A finding indicating the presence of Barrett esophagus in which there is marked nuclear pleomorphism and loss of polarity, increased number of atypical mitotic figures, and crypt budding, branching, and crowding.
(High Grade Dysplasia in Barrett Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)
There is marked glandular crowding, branching and budding, intraluminal necrosis, and prominent mitotic activity.
(Gastric Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
He, also, was addicted to crowding her, to veering toward her till his scarred muzzle touched her body, or shoulder, or neck.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A slowly progressing type of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease in which too many myelomonocytes (a type of white blood cell) are in the bone marrow, crowding out other normal blood cells, such as other white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
(Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, NCI Dictionary)
So did I. And for two hours we sat there, face to face, whet, whet, whet, till the news of it spread abroad and half the ship’s company was crowding the galley doors to see the sight.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Likewise the fire was afore her eyes, and the roarings in her ears; and theer was no today, nor yesterday, nor yet tomorrow; but everything in her life as ever had been, or as ever could be, and everything as never had been, and as never could be, was a crowding on her all at once, and nothing clear nor welcome, and yet she sang and laughed about it!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
With that he blew out his candle, put on a greatcoat, and set forth in the direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend, the great Dr. Lanyon, had his house and received his crowding patients.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
