to crawl

Definition of to crawl in English English dictionary: grovel; To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching
Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficient.; To feel a swarming sensation
The horrible sight made my skin crawl.; To visit while becoming inebriated
They crawled the downtown bars.; To move forward slowly, with frequent stops
The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.; To swim using the crawl stroke
I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres.; A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image; See crawl with; {v} to creep, move slowly, cringe, fawn; When you crawl, you move forward on your hands and knees. Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk I began to crawl on my hands and knees towards the door As he tried to crawl away, he was hit in the shoulder; 1 : to move or go slowly with the body close to the ground : creep; 3 : to advance servilely, abjectly, or furtively [broken heart and contrite spirit]; To move over an area on hands and knees; To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct; To act in a servile manner; To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls; a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"; to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner; To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep; To teem; to be covered or swarming (with); A particular kind of credit optical in which the names move up or down the screen; The operation of reading or analyzing pages of a website by an automated program called a spider or robot Spiders crawl your site by following links on each page of your site After crawling, the spider will return the results back to the search engine for later inclusion into it's database for indexing See also Index; 1 The process through which Content Analyzer examines the site you specify and creates a map See also explore (Content Analyzer) 2 The process through which Search gathers content by following links contained in documents or by following directory trees in a file system (Search); The act of a spider following links from one Web page to another, traversing an entire Web site; See Creep, v; Search content to include it in an index See also: build, content source, inclusion/exclusion rules; a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"; If something makes your skin crawl or makes your flesh crawl, it makes you feel shocked or disgusted. I hated this man, his very touch made my skin crawl. see also kerb-crawling, pub crawl. A pen in shallow water, as for confining fish or turtles; show submission or fear; If someone or something crawls somewhere, they move or progress slowly or with great difficulty. I crawled out of bed at nine-thirty Hairpin turns force the car to crawl at 10 miles an hour in some places. Crawl is also a noun. The traffic on the approach road slowed to a crawl; feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified"; swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"; a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick; On a caving trip, the method used to get breakfast in bed, especially on cold & wet mornings; move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"; A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick; feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified; The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops; To index files or web sites in order to make them available for search; To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground; The crawl is a kind of swimming stroke which you do lying on your front, swinging one arm over your head, and then the other arm; A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish; Usually the end credits in a film or TV shot which "crawl" up the screen; {i} act of crawling (moving along the ground on all fours, creeping); swimming stroke; The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal; {f} creep, move along the ground on all fours; grovel, be servile; a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"; When an insect crawls somewhere, it moves there quite slowly. I watched the moth crawl up the outside of the lampshade; emphasis If you say that a place is crawling with people or animals, you are emphasizing that it is full of them. This place is crawling with police; be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"

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tı krôl

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/tə ˈkrôl/ /tə ˈkrɔːl/

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