crawl

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

crawls

V_ing/Gerund

crawling

V_ed/pp

crawled

1.
(intransitive)To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.
2.
(intransitive)To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.
3.
(intransitive)To act in a servile manner.
Don’t come crawling to me with your useless apologies!
Đồng nghĩa: kowtow, grovel
4.
(intransitive)Followed by with: see crawl with.
5.
(intransitive)To feel a swarming sensation.
The horrible sight made my skin crawl.
6.
(intransitive, transitive)To swim using the crawl stroke.
I think I’ll crawl the next hundred metres.
7.
(transitive)To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
The baby crawled the entire second floor.
8.
(transitive)To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
They crawled the downtown bars.
9.
(Internet, transitive)To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl websites faster and more efficiently.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

crawls

1.
The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
2.
The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
3.
A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
4.
(figuratively)(figurative) A very slow pace.
My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.
5.
(television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.
6.
A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

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Đồng nghĩa

kowtow grovel

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare kravle, kravla, kräla (to creep, crawl)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare krabbelje, krabbelen, krabbeln, krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (to scratch, scrape). Compare also krauelje, kreauwelje, krevelen, krieuwelen (to crawl), kribbeln, kribbeln. See also crab, crabble.