creep

1. (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

   Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.

   Eş anlamlılar: crawl

2. (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.

3. (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

   He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.

4. (intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

   Prices have been creeping up all year.

5. (idiomatic) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to insinuate itself or oneself.

   Old age creeps upon us.

   Eş anlamlılar: steal in

6. To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

   The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.

7. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

   A creeping sycophant.

8. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

   The sight made my flesh creep.

9. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

10. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

Biçimler: creeps, creeping, crept, creeped, crope, crept, creeped, crope

1. The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).

2. A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.

3. A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.

4. (uncountable) The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.

   Christmas creep

5. (publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.

6. (materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.

   Eş anlamlılar: cold flow

7. (geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.

8. (informal, derogatory) Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.

   Eş anlamlılar: creepazoid, creeper, creepoid

9. (informal, derogatory, especially) A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.

   Eş anlamlılar: pervert, perv

10. (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

Biçimler: creeps