crawlverb詞源 1/kɹɔːl/

• 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.

  • Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.
  • A VVorm finds vvhat it ſearches after, only by Feeling, as it cravvls from one thing to another. VVhereas a Man, having Eyes, ſees it in a Moment, all before him.
• 2

  To move or progress slowly or laboriously, or with great difficulty (for example due to feebleness) or frequent stops.

  • The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.
  • […] and catching hold with his hand upon the rough cragges, […] he crawled up to the toppe thereof
• 3

  To advance by guile and servility; to act in a servile manner, trying to please someone in order to gain favor.

  • Don’t come crawling to me with your useless apologies!
  • Our hard-ruled king. Again, there is sprung up. An heretic, an arch one, Cranmer; one. Hath crawled into the favour of the king
• 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.
  • A little […] Nerve […] which crawls up and down the Coat of the Liver.
• 5

  To swim using the crawl stroke.

  • I think I'll crawl instead of breaststroke.
  • I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres.
• 6

  Followed by with: see crawl with.

• 7

  To feel a swarming sensation; to have a sensation like that produced by insects crawling over one's body.

  • The horrible sight made my skin crawl.
  • [Their] dirtiness positively made me crawl.
• 8

  To spread unevenly; to fail to be or remain evenly spread.

crawlnoun詞源 1/kɹɔːl/

• 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

  A very slow pace.

  • My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.
• 5

  broadcastingfilmmediaA 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.

crawlnoun詞源 2/kɹɔːl/

• 1

  A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.