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crawl
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: krôl, IPA(key): /k???l/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: kräl, IPA(key): /k??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
From Middle English crawlen, creulen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla), from Proto-Germanic *krabl?n? (compare Dutch krabbelen, Low German krabbeln, Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of *krabb?n? (“to scratch, scrape”). More at crab.
Verb
crawl (third-person singular simple present crawls, present participle crawling, simple past and past participle crawled)
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra
- A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
- (intransitive, with "with") See crawl with.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
- (intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
- (transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?)(intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated.
- (transitive) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
Derived terms
- crawler
Descendants
- German: kraulen
Translations
Noun
crawl (plural crawls)
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops.
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
- (figuratively) A very slow pace.
- My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.
- (television, film) A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]
- 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.
- 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[2]
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Portuguese: crol, crawl
Translations
Etymology 2
Compare kraal.
Noun
crawl (plural crawls)
- A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English crawl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?ol/
Noun
crawl m (plural crawls)
- crawl (swimming stroke)
Further reading
- “crawl” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English crawl.
Noun
crawl m (plural crawl)
- crawl (swimming stroke)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English crawl.
Noun
crawl m (uncountable)
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of crol
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English crawl.
Noun
crawl c (uncountable)
- crawl; swimming stroke
Declension
Related terms
- crawla
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coast
English
Etymology
From Middle English coste, cooste (“rib", also "shore”), from Old French coste, from Latin costa (“rib, side, edge”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: k?st, IPA(key): /ko?st/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?st, IPA(key): /k??st/
- Rhymes: -??st
Noun
coast (plural coasts)
- The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. [from 14th c.]
- The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.
- (obsolete) The side or edge of something. [15th-18th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Isaac Newton to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A region of land; a district or country. [14th-17th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale (translator), Bible, Matthew 2
- Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […]
- P. Crescentius, in his lib. 1 de agric. cap. 5, is very copious in this subject, how a house should be wholesomely sited, in a good coast, good air, wind, etc.
- 1526, William Tyndale (translator), Bible, Matthew 2
- (obsolete) A region of the air or heavens. [14th-17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III iii
- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III iii
Hypernyms
- (edge of land meeting an ocean, sea, gulf, or bay): shore, shoreline
Hyponyms
- (edge of land meeting an ocean, sea, gulf, or bay): oceanfront, seashore
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
coast (third-person singular simple present coasts, present participle coasting, simple past and past participle coasted)
- (intransitive) To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail along a coast.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- The Ancients coasted only in their Navigations.
- 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
- (intransitive) To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort.
- November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
- November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- (intransitive, obsolete) To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To sail by or near; to follow the coastline of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To conduct along a coast or river bank.
- The Indians […] coasted me a long the river.
- (US, dialect) To slide downhill; to slide on a sled upon snow or ice.
Translations
Anagrams
- Ascot, Casto, Coats, Costa, Cotas, Sacto, Tosca, ascot, catso, coats, costa, octas, scato-, scoat, tacos
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