swarmingn.

/ˈswɔːmɪŋ/

Etymology: < swarm v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

The action of swarm v.¹

1. The action of assembling in a swarm or dense crowd; spec. the gathering and departure from the hive of a swarm of bees; also transferred of persons (usually with off).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > assembling of people or animals > in large numbers

thronging1548

swarming1551

flocking1604

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees > action of swarming

swarming1551

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxvij^v A myddle swarmynge of Antichristes sectes in England.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 46^v Watch bees in May, for swarming away.

1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 26 The chief time of the swarming (as one would say) of Pilchards about the shores of Cornwall, is from July to November.

1675 J. Gedde New Discov. Bee-houses 16 When Bees are at the Swarming.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 271 Observe what you can of the usual Signs that precede their Swarming.

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xix. 167 Sometimes, when every thing seems to prognosticate swarming, a cloud passing over the sun calms the agitation.

1911 J. H. Rose Pitt & Great War vii. 168 The divisions, by the process of swarming-off, rapidly extended the organisation.

2. Biology. The movement characteristic of swarm-spores; reproduction by swarm-spores.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [noun] > swarming

swarming1867

swarm-movement1898

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > others

adosculation1682

autogeny?1818

gemmation1836

parthenogenesis1849

virgin production1849

rejuvenescence1853

agamogenesis1857

monogeny1857

autogenesis1858

homogenesis1858

proliferation1864

monogenesis1866

swarming1867

paedogenesis1870

monogony1873

virginal generation1879

division1880

monogenesy1890

parthenogeny1890

anisogamy1891

isogamy1891

paragamy1891

separation1891

paedogenesis1892

parthenism1892

heterogamy1894

thelytoky1895

flagellation1898

cytogamy1899

pseudogamy1900

tychoparthenogenesis1900

syngamy1904

pseudogamy1907

ectogenesis1909

paedogamy1910

apomixis1913

progenesis1934

agamospermy1939

mixis1944

somatogamy1949

decapitation-

1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 234/2.

1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 673 The swarming of zoospores.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 4 (note) The term ‘swarming’ is applied to any apparently spontaneous motion imparted to a naked protoplasmic body by vibratile cilia.

3. attributive, as swarming-place, swarming season, swarming time.Used spec. in names of apparatus for transferring a swarm of bees to a new hive, as swarming-bag, swarming-basket, swarming-box, swarming-hook. (In recent dictionaries.)

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [adjective]

colonialized1848

swarming-place1892

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 270 In Swarming time the Hives that you are minded to use, rub with sweet Herbs.

1855 Poultry Chron. 3 206/2 Watching and hiving for several weeks in the swarming season.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 3 At last it [sc. the Ghetto] becomes only a swarming-place for the poor and the ignorant.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

swarmingadj.

Etymology: < swarm v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswarming.

1. Assembling or moving in a swarm; forming a swarm or dense crowd; thronging; very numerous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > assembling in crowds

thronging1566

flocking1581

swarming1590

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y5 Those spoylefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings.

1725 Pole Odyss. xiii. 179 The swarming people hail their ship to land.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 555 Moisture and drought, mice, worms, and swarming flies.

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna v. xxxviii. 112 To see Earth from her general womb Pour forth her swarming sons to a fraternal doom.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. i. 40 Barges pursuing their now difficult way among the swarming steamers.

2. spec. of bees; also transferred of persons: see swarm v.¹ 1a, 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > swarming

swarming1556

1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 62 Being swarming [L. congregabilia] by kinde, they worke their combes.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 31 See..How black the Clouds of swarming Bees arise.

1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day ii. 26 Swarming Bees,..Charm'd with the brazen Sound.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 147 Whence Ambigatus had sent forth his swarming colonists.

3. Filled with a swarm or multitude; densely crowded; thronged; very populous.

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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > crowded

thickc893

replete?a1475

frequentc1540

throng1557

thicky1587

thronged1605

celebrious1611

crowded1612

stiff1683

swarming1810

multitudinous1820

throngful1830

dense1842

swarmy1858

teeminga1873

swarmed1885

mobbed1898

1810 J. Montgomery W. Indies ii. 117 That stock he found on Afric's swarming plains.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak liv, in Poems (new ed.) II. 77 The swarming sound of life.

1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. (1872) I. 16 A swarming city.

4. Biology. Emerging as swarm-spores, or moving in the way characteristic of them: see swarm v.¹ 1c.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [adjective] > swarming

swarming1864

1864 Reader 30 Apr. 548/3 The swarming-spores of certain Algæ.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 232 In many of the more highly developed Thallophytes this power of motility is however limited to the male ‘swarming’ fertilising elements.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	swarming
释义	swarmingn. /ˈswɔːmɪŋ/ Etymology: < swarm v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. The action of swarm v.¹ 1. The action of assembling in a swarm or dense crowd; spec. the gathering and departure from the hive of a swarm of bees; also transferred of persons (usually with off). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > assembling of people or animals > in large numbers thronging1548 swarming1551 flocking1604 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees > action of swarming swarming1551 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxvij^v A myddle swarmynge of Antichristes sectes in England. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 46^v Watch bees in May, for swarming away. 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 26 The chief time of the swarming (as one would say) of Pilchards about the shores of Cornwall, is from July to November. 1675 J. Gedde New Discov. Bee-houses 16 When Bees are at the Swarming. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 271 Observe what you can of the usual Signs that precede their Swarming. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xix. 167 Sometimes, when every thing seems to prognosticate swarming, a cloud passing over the sun calms the agitation. 1911 J. H. Rose Pitt & Great War vii. 168 The divisions, by the process of swarming-off, rapidly extended the organisation. 2. Biology. The movement characteristic of swarm-spores; reproduction by swarm-spores. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [noun] > swarming swarming1867 swarm-movement1898 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > others adosculation1682 autogeny?1818 gemmation1836 parthenogenesis1849 virgin production1849 rejuvenescence1853 agamogenesis1857 monogeny1857 autogenesis1858 homogenesis1858 proliferation1864 monogenesis1866 swarming1867 paedogenesis1870 monogony1873 virginal generation1879 division1880 monogenesy1890 parthenogeny1890 anisogamy1891 isogamy1891 paragamy1891 separation1891 paedogenesis1892 parthenism1892 heterogamy1894 thelytoky1895 flagellation1898 cytogamy1899 pseudogamy1900 tychoparthenogenesis1900 syngamy1904 pseudogamy1907 ectogenesis1909 paedogamy1910 apomixis1913 progenesis1934 agamospermy1939 mixis1944 somatogamy1949 decapitation- 1867 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 234/2. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 673 The swarming of zoospores. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 4 (note) The term ‘swarming’ is applied to any apparently spontaneous motion imparted to a naked protoplasmic body by vibratile cilia. 3. attributive, as swarming-place, swarming season, swarming time.Used spec. in names of apparatus for transferring a swarm of bees to a new hive, as swarming-bag, swarming-basket, swarming-box, swarming-hook. (In recent dictionaries.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [adjective] colonialized1848 swarming-place1892 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 270 In Swarming time the Hives that you are minded to use, rub with sweet Herbs. 1855 Poultry Chron. 3 206/2 Watching and hiving for several weeks in the swarming season. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 3 At last it [sc. the Ghetto] becomes only a swarming-place for the poor and the ignorant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2019). swarmingadj. Etymology: < swarm v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswarming. 1. Assembling or moving in a swarm; forming a swarm or dense crowd; thronging; very numerous. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > assembling in crowds thronging1566 flocking1581 swarming1590 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y5 Those spoylefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings. 1725 Pole Odyss. xiii. 179 The swarming people hail their ship to land. 1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 555 Moisture and drought, mice, worms, and swarming flies. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna v. xxxviii. 112 To see Earth from her general womb Pour forth her swarming sons to a fraternal doom. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. i. 40 Barges pursuing their now difficult way among the swarming steamers. 2. spec. of bees; also transferred of persons: see swarm v.¹ 1a, 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > swarming swarming1556 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 62 Being swarming [L. congregabilia] by kinde, they worke their combes. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 31 See..How black the Clouds of swarming Bees arise. 1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day ii. 26 Swarming Bees,..Charm'd with the brazen Sound. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 147 Whence Ambigatus had sent forth his swarming colonists. 3. Filled with a swarm or multitude; densely crowded; thronged; very populous. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > crowded thickc893 replete?a1475 frequentc1540 throng1557 thicky1587 thronged1605 celebrious1611 crowded1612 stiff1683 swarming1810 multitudinous1820 throngful1830 dense1842 swarmy1858 teeminga1873 swarmed1885 mobbed1898 1810 J. Montgomery W. Indies ii. 117 That stock he found on Afric's swarming plains. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Talking Oak liv, in Poems (new ed.) II. 77 The swarming sound of life. 1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. (1872) I. 16 A swarming city. 4. Biology. Emerging as swarm-spores, or moving in the way characteristic of them: see swarm v.¹ 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [adjective] > swarming swarming1864 1864 Reader 30 Apr. 548/3 The swarming-spores of certain Algæ. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 232 In many of the more highly developed Thallophytes this power of motility is however limited to the male ‘swarming’ fertilising elements. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1551adj.1556
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