| 单词 | swarm |
| 释义 | swarm swarm1 —swarmer, n. /swawrm/, n. 1. a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony. 2. a body of bees settled together, as in a hive. 3. a great number of things or persons, esp. in motion. 4. Biol. a group or aggregation of free-floating or free-swimming cells or organisms. 5. Geol. a cluster of earthquakes or other geologic phenomena or features. v.i. 6. to fly off together in a swarm, as bees. 7. to move about, along, forth, etc., in great numbers, as things or persons. 8. to congregate, hover, or occur in groups or multitudes; be exceedingly numerous, as in a place or area. 9. (of a place) to be thronged or overrun; abound or teem: The beach swarms with children on summer weekends. 10. Biol. to move or swim about in a swarm. v.t. 11. to swarm about, over, or in; throng; overrun. 12. to produce a swarm of. [bef. 900; (n.) ME; OE swearm; c. G Schwarm swarm, ON svarmr tumult; (v.) ME swarmen, deriv. of the n.] Syn. 3. horde, host, mass. See crowd1. swarm2 /swawrm/, v.t. , v.i. to climb by clasping with the legs and hands or arms and drawing oneself up; shin. [1540-50; orig. uncert.] |
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