- 1爬藤、攀緣植物（沿地或沿牆長的）
A creeper is a plant that does not stand up on its own like a tree. It grows along the ground, or it climbs a wall, a fence, or a tree, holding on as it goes. Ivy is a typical creeper. use the word in a calm, ordinary way; over years the plant can cover a whole wall. Though actually, English also uses creeper for a person who walks up quietly, and in casual talk for someone who makes you — that is not the garden meaning. “Virginia creeper” is one well-known climbing plant, often grown for leaves that turn red. When the sentence is about green things on walls or on the ground, you are in the plant sense.
組成creep + -er — “one that creeps.” From Middle English crepere, from Old English crēopere.
原始詞典資料18 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
creepernoun/ˈkɹipɚ/
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A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- Standing Waters[…] are most unwholesome, putrified, and full of mites, creepers, slimy, muddy, uncleane, corrupt, impure, by reason of the Suns heat, and still standing;
- With his presence marked by shots of children’s toys overlaid with ominous music, Z is more of a creeper than a reaper—until a shocking, sudden moment midway through the film.
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Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
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A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
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A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
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A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
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A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
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A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
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An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
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Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
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Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
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A treecreeper.
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Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
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nauticaltransportA small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
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The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- Throwing it in creeper and then getting out to work alongside is strictly forbidden because it is too dangerous if anything goes wrong.
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A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- If my phone rings while I'm on a creeper underneath the car with oil on my hands, well, the caller will just have to leave a voicemail.
- "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?" "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest. "Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
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derogatoryslangA person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Don't go to a nightclub to find a boyfriend. They're all creepers there.
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A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
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ball-gamescricketgamesA ball that travels low, near ground level.
- May joined Hutton and proceeded to play masterly cricket in which the straight-drive predominated. There was always the possibility that he might be trapped by a creeper, but May watched the ball intently.
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