crawl

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɹɔːl/|/kɹoːl/    美 /kɹoːl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
  2. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
  3. The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
  4. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
  5. A very slow pace. figuratively
    — My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.
  6. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby. intransitive
    — Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.
  2. To move or progress slowly or laboriously, or with great difficulty (for example due to feebleness) or frequent stops. intransitive
    — The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.
  3. To advance by guile and servility; to act in a servile manner, trying to please someone in order to gain favor. intransitive
    — Don’t come crawling to me with your useless apologies!
  4. To spread by extending tendrils, stems, or branches; to creep or trail (as a vine).
    — The old house was covered in vines crawling over every available surface.
  5. To swim using the crawl stroke. intransitive,transitive
    — I think I'll crawl instead of breaststroke.
  6. Followed by with: see crawl with. intransitive
  7. To feel a swarming sensation; to have a sensation like that produced by insects crawling over one's body. intransitive
    — The horrible sight made my skin crawl.
  8. To spread unevenly; to fail to be or remain evenly spread. intransitive
  9. To move over (an area) on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along. transitive
    — The baby crawled the entire second floor.
  10. To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops. transitive
    — They crawled the downtown bars.
  11. To visit (files or web sites) in order to index them for searching. Internet,transitive
    — Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl websites faster and more efficiently.

词形变化

crawls present,singular,third-person crawling participle,present crawled participle,past crawled past crawls plural crawls plural

词汇关系

近义词
creep inch plod scuttle wriggle
反义词
run walk sprint lope
上位词
move slowly
下位词
army crawl grovel
衍生词
acrawl backcrawl becrawl bellycrawl crawlable crawl-a-bottom crawl before one can walk crawl before one walks crawler crawl-in crawlingly crawlingness crawling peg crawl into a hole crawl out of the woodwork crawl over each other crawlsome crawl up someone's ass crawlway crawly cross-crawl flesh-crawling kerb crawling make someone's skin crawl newscrawl outcrawl recrawl skin-crawling upcrawl wallcrawl army crawl Australian crawl back crawl bear crawl crab crawl crawl control crawl space dot crawl dungeon crawl front crawl hex crawl high crawl kerb crawl leopard crawl news crawl pub crawl tiger crawl urban crawl zombie crawl
相关词
trudge sneak

词源

词源 1
From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla (“to creep, crawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Saterland Frisian krabbelje, Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also Saterland Frisian krauelje (“to crawl, scuttle”), West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.
词源 2
Compare kraal.
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