different between crawl vs lunge
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
crawl From the web:
- what crawls
- what crawls on four legs at dawn
- what crawls in the sea
- what crawl means
- what crawls in the morning riddle
- what crawling on my skin
- what crawled in bug's ear
- what crawls on dogs
lunge
English
Alternative forms
- longe (US)
Etymology
From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?
Noun
lunge (plural lunges)
- A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
- A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
- An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
- A fish, the namaycush.
Derived terms
- lunge whip
Translations
Verb
lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
- I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
- 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork
- With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
- (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).
Translations
Anagrams
- Leung
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l???]
Noun
lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)
- (anatomy) lung
Inflection
Derived terms
- lungebetændelse
- lungekapacitet
- lungekræft
- lungetransplantation
References
- “lunge” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “lunge” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lun.d??e/
- Hyphenation: lùn?ge
Adverb
lunge
- Archaic form of lungi.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.
Noun
lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
- (anatomy) a lung
Derived terms
- lungebetennelse
- lungekreft
- lungeskade
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²l????/
Noun
lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
- (anatomy) a lung
Derived terms
- lungebetennelse
- lungekreft
- lungeskade
Further reading
- “lunge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
lunge From the web:
- what lunges
- what lunges work
- what lunges do
- what lunge is best for glutes
- what lunger mean
- what lunged mean
- what lunges do for your body
- what lunges work the glutes
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