Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS:
    • IPA: [swɔrːm]
  • GenAm:
  • RP:
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /swɔː(r)m/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  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. (computing) A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.

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.

Exempel

  • a deadly swarm of hornets
  • a swarm of meteorites
  • those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]
  • There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
  • Every place swarms with soldiers.
  • At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
  • She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
  • Not so thick swarmed once the soil / Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.
  • For a swarm to develop the locusts must transform from a solitary phase into a gregarious phase. (Reuters, janvier 2009)

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipswarmedImperfektswarmed
PresensparticipswarmingPluralswarms
Tredje person singular indicativ presensswarmsTredje person singular indicativ presensswarmeth

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