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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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meander
English
Alternative forms
- mæander (archaic)
Etymology
From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course. (Turkish Büyük Menderes Nehri)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mi?ænd?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /mi?ænd?/
Noun
meander (plural meanders)
- One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
- 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, "Creation: A Philosophical Poem":
- See, how the streams advancing to the main, / Through crooked channels draw their crystal train! / While lingering thus they in meanders glide, / They scatter verdant life on either side.
- 1712, Sir Richard Blackmore, "Creation: A Philosophical Poem":
- A tortuous or intricate movement.
- (geography) one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
- Fretwork.
- Perplexity.
- Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border.
- (mathematics) A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
meander (third-person singular simple present meanders, present participle meandering, simple past and past participle meandered)
- (intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
- (transitive) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryton to this entry?)
Translations
Further reading
- meander on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Büyük Menderes River on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- The Chambers Dictionary (1998)
Anagrams
- Merenda, amender, enarmed, reamend, reedman, renamed
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros)
Noun
meander m (definite singular meanderen, indefinite plural meandere or meandre or meandrer, definite plural meanderne or meandrene)
- a meander (in a river)
Derived terms
- meandersjø
- meandrere
References
- “meander” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “meander” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros)
Noun
meander m (definite singular meanderen, indefinite plural meandrar, definite plural meandrane)
- a meander (in a river)
Derived terms
- meandersjø
References
- “meander” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
From German Mäander, from Latin Maeander, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Maíandros) – a river in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) known for its winding course.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??an.d?r/
Noun
meander m inan
- meander (one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse)
- Synonym: zakole
- meander, meandros (decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif)
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjectives) meandrowy, meandryczny, meandrowaty
- (nouns) meandryczno??
- (verb) meandrowa?
Further reading
- meander in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- meander in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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