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US
/ˈkɹu/
]
[ UK /kɹˈuː/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈuː/ ]
NOUN
- the team of men manning a racing shell
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an informal body of friends
he still hangs out with the same crowd - the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
- an organized group of workmen
VERB
- serve as a crew member on
How To Use crew In A Sentence
- Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
- The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
- Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania. The Forever City
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
- Said hi also to a few of the guys from Aereogramme after they'd finished up, but wasn't actually sure of who was there from Chemikal Underground or what they look like, so I was basically floating around and looking glaikit until Mags pointed out the Newsnight crew, and the nice interviewer man figured out who I was. Archive 2007-02-01
- There are two main approaches: one is a synthetic plug the same shape as a cork that can be placed in the top of the bottle in the same way as a cork and removed with a corkscrew, so preserving the ritual of opening a bottle of wine.
- We work together as ground crew for an airline. The Sun
- Helping him to do so, meanwhile, is Proteus' feisty betrothed, Marina, who gives as good as she gets in helping to ensure Sinbad doesn't stray from his path, while winning over the respect of his crew.
- There were weighty arguments against this theory, in particular the fact that people with great muscular strength and a welldeveloped panniculus adiposus were often attacked by the disease; and also that European crews, on a diet containing sufficient protein and fat, were not immune, even when they were given virtually no rice at all. Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture
- The crew jettisoned excess fuel and made an emergency landing.