swarm
/swɔɹm/ noun B1- A large number of insects or other bugs (e.g. centipedes), especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
- A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil. · a swarm of meteorites
- A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
- 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.
Plural swarms
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The shipowner, smiling, followed him with his eyes until he saw him spring out on the quay and disappear in the midst of the throng, which from five o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night, swarms in the famous street of La Canebière,—a street of which the modern Phocéens are so proud that they say with all the gravity in the world, and with that accent which gives so much character to what is said, “If Paris had La Canebière, Paris would be a second Marseilles.” On turning round the owner saw Danglars behind him, apparently awaiting orders, but in reality also watching the young sailor,—but there was a great difference in the expression of the two men who thus followed the movements of Edmond Dantès.
A swarm of hungry blood-sucking flies settled upon him.
Forthwith there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and a swarm of black bees came flying toward her.
The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians.
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