swarm

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
2. A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
3. A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
4. A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.

Verb

1. To move as a swarm.
2. To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
3. To fill a place as a swarm.
4. To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
5. To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
6. To breed multitudes.

Conceptos

enjambre

muchedumbre

montón

pulular

acervo

cúmulo

pila

hormiguear

bullir

multitud

enjambrar

masa

horda

folla

apiñars

gentío

esparcirse

zumbar

ir en mesa

manada

nube

rebaño

aglomeración

tropa

tropel

chusma

gentuza

alborotarse

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/swɔɹm/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian свире́ль (svirélʹ, “a pipe, reed”).
The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swierman (“to swarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *swarmijaną (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma.