swarm

Significado (Inglês)

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

Conceitos

multidão

enxame

pulular

formigar

enxamear

chusma

montão

acervo

turbamulta

pilha

turba

tropel

acúmulo

ruma

roda-viva

correição

turma

barafunda

manada

cúmulo

horda

legião

massa

nuvem

☁️

turbilhão

baderna

debandada

leva

👋

estouro da boiada

mundaréu de gente

abundar

fervilhar

cardume

🏫

fula

formigueiro

conjunto

aglomeração

agrupamento

batalhão

abelheira

infestar

Sinônimos

flock

crowd

throng

herd

gather

teem

horde

mass

mob

group

multitude

school

🏫

stream

shoal

flight

✈️

bevy

drove

heap

pack

pullulate

congregate

crowd around

mill about

cluster

troop

cloud

☁️

assemble

rabble

pile

company

come together

collection

body

gaggle

cluster around

circle

⭕

pod

hive

crowd round

colony

band

accumulation

huddle

assemblage

surge

pour

pride

covey

team

army

Traduções

essaim

Schwarm

enjambre

sciame

menigte

muchedumbre

zwerm

schwärmen

masse

zwermen

essaimer

krielen

krioelen

wemelen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/swɔɹm/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: swarm

Herdado de inglês arcaico: swearm

Cognato com Saterfriesisch: Swoorm

Cognato com holandês: zwerm

Cognato com alemão: Schwarm

Cognato com dinamarquês: sværm

Cognato com sueco: svärm

Cognato com islandês: svarmur

Cognato com latim: susurrus

Cognato com lituano: surma

Cognato com russo: свире́ль

Herdado de inglês médio: swarmen

Herdado de inglês arcaico: swierman

Cognato com scots: swairm

Cognato com holandês: zwermen

Cognato com alemão: schwärmen

Cognato com dinamarquês: sværme

Cognato com sueco: svärma

In summary

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 swirman (“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.