A crowd is a crowd that moves and acts without order and in a noisy manner . The term also refers to those things that are arranged and develop in a disorganized way .
For example: "Everything went out of control when a man, in the middle of the crowd, pulled a gun out of a pocket and started shooting into the air" , "The young people flocked to the footballer with the intention of taking a photograph with their idol" , " In his speech, the candidate unveiled a multitude of proposals .
The people in droves advance together but in a disorderly manner . Suppose that the president of a country announces on television that he will propose raising taxes by 200% since the State needs more funds. Many people, upon hearing the idea, spontaneously take to the streets to express their rejection and begin to approach the Government House. Thus, without there being a formal call or a structure, the crowd begins to make itself felt.
What is carried out in droves, meanwhile, unfolds rapidly and chaotically . Returning to the case mentioned above, it can be said that the protesters are heading in droves towards the government building .
Before continuing, we will evaluate a list of the most common synonyms of the word tropel , some of which have already been used in the previous paragraphs. These can be very useful to express the same or very similar ideas in everyday speech, where their use is not so common. Let's look at some of them: horde , panda, rabble, mob, hive, rabble and mob .
We left crowd for last, precisely because it is part of the very definition of crowd , as we have seen above: "a crowd that moves in a disorderly and noisy manner." Now, if we look up this term in the dictionary, we obtain the following meaning: "an abundant group of things or people, a multitude." This brings us to another term that, depending on the context, could also be used as a synonym for crowd : multitude , which is defined as "a large number of things or people."
That is to say, multitude and multitude have practically the same meaning, although the second refers to the first to elaborate its definition. Although both can be used to replace troops in certain cases, they present two very clear differences: the absence of movement and the way in which they carry it out. In other words, it is possible to see a crowd or a crowd of people standing still and calm, but not a crowd, which must be moving and causing some type of disturbance, agitation , uproar, confusion or disorder .
From this term is derived the feminine noun tropelia , which is defined as "an act or outrage characterized by violence, usually carried out by someone who abuses power." It can also be "a disorderly, violent or confusing acceleration." Let us note the presence of the noun atropello , whose similarities in writing reveal its relationship with tropel , although it is closer to another of the family, tropa .
The study of its etymology reveals that its origins can be found in French, a language from which we obtained the word tropa , derived from troupe , which in turn may have arisen from troupeau ("flock").
Tropel , on the other hand, is a brand of craft beer that is produced in the town of Luján , in the province of Buenos Aires ( Argentina ). It has a factory bar and sells its production in cans.
It should be noted that the notion of troop was also used to refer to the trot of horses . This meaning, however, fell into disuse, according to the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ).