keep back a crowd

  • 1keep back — v. (D; tr.) to keep back from (they kept her back from the crowd) * * * [ kiːp bæk] (D; tr.) to keep back from (they kept her back from the crowd) …

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  • 2keep back — {v. phr.} To refrain or be restrained from entering; remain back. * /The police had a hard time keeping back the crowd when the astronauts came to town after walking on the moon./ …

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  • 3keep back — {v. phr.} To refrain or be restrained from entering; remain back. * /The police had a hard time keeping back the crowd when the astronauts came to town after walking on the moon./ …

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  • 4keep\ back — v. phr. To refrain or be restrained from entering; remain back. The police had a hard time keeping back the crowd when the astronauts came to town after walking on the moon …

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  • 5crowd mining — pp. Extracting useful knowledge from large databases of social information. Also: crowd mining. Example Citations: The six billion people on Earth are changing the biosphere so quickly that traditional ecological methods can t keep up. Humans,… …

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  • 6Crowd funding — (sometimes called crowd financing, crowd sourced capital, or street performer protocol) describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money and other resources together, usually via the Internet,… …

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  • 7Crowd manipulation — March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 led by Martin Luther King Vladmir Lenin addresses a crowd of chee …

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  • 8Back Burners — Infobox The Wire episode caption = episode name = Back Burners episode no = 32 epigraph = Conscience do cost. Butchie teleplay = Joy Lusco story = David Simon and Joy Lusco writer = director = Tim Van Patten guest star = see below prod code = 307 …

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  • 9keep up — Synonyms and related words: afford support, au courant, back, back up, be employed, bear, bear up, bolster, bolster up, brace, buoy up, buttress, carry, carry on, carry on business, conserve, continue, copyright, cradle, crutch, cushion, do… …

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  • 10hold back — {v.} 1. To stay back or away; show unwillingness. * /The visitor tried to gel the child to come to her, but he held back./ * /John held back from social activity because he felt embarrassed with people./ 2. To keep someone in place; prevent from… …

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