swarm
- IPA[swôrm]
美式
- a large or dense group of insects, especially flying ones；a large number of honeybees that leave a hive en masse with a newly fertilized queen in order to establish a new colony.
- (of insects) move in or form a swarm；(of honeybees, ants, or termites) issue from the nest in large numbers with a newly fertilized queen in order to found new colonies
verb: swarm, 3rd person present: swarms, gerund or present participle: swarming, past tense: swarmed, past participle: swarmed
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. a large or dense group of insects, especially flying ones a swarm of locusts
- ▪ a large number of honeybees that leave a hive en masse with a newly fertilized queen in order to establish a new colony. 同義詞
- ▪ a large number of people or things a swarm of journalists 同義詞
- ▪ a series of similar-sized earthquakes occurring together, typically near a volcano.
- ▪ a large number of minor celestial objects occurring together in space, especially a dense shower of meteors.
動詞
- 1. (of insects) move in or form a swarm a plague of locusts swarmed across the countryside
- ▪ (of honeybees, ants, or termites) issue from the nest in large numbers with a newly fertilized queen in order to found new colonies the bees had swarmed and left the hive
- 2. move somewhere in large numbers protesters were swarming into the building
