释义 |
crawl1 /kröl/ intransitive verb- To move slowly with the body on or close to the ground
- To move on hands and knees
- To creep
- To move slowly or stealthily
- To behave abjectly or obsequiously
- To be, or feel as if, covered with crawling things (with with)
- To swim using the crawl stroke
noun- The act of crawling
- A slow pace
- A swimming stroke in which the arms are held in front of the body and rotated from the shoulder alternately and the feet kicked up and down
ORIGIN: ME, perh from ON krafla creep crawlˈer noun - Someone who or something that crawls
- An abject, obsequious or sycophantic person
- A sluggish or slow person
- A creeping thing
- A heavy slow-moving vehicle, esp one that moves on caterpillar tracks
- A baby's overall, a romper suit
- A computer program that extracts information from sites on the World Wide Web in order to create entries for a search engine’s index
crawlˈing noun adjective - Creeping
- Lousy, verminous
crawlˈingly adverb crawlˈy adjective (crawlˈier; crawlˈiest) (informal) - With, or like the feeling of, something crawling over one
- Creepy
crawler lane noun An extra lane for the use of slow-moving vehicles on an uphill stretch of a road crawling peg noun (economics) A system of stabilizing prices or exchange rates by allowing a limited amount of rise or fall at predetermined intervals crawlˈspace noun A shallow area below a floor or above a ceiling, giving access to pipes and ducts |