different between crawl vs wobble
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
wobble
English
Etymology
From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w?bl?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w?bl?/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Noun
wobble (plural wobbles)
- An unsteady motion.
- A tremulous sound.
- (music) A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep
- (genetics) A variation in the third codon that codes for a specific aminoacid
Synonyms
- (unsteady motion): jiggle, quiver, shake, tremble
- (tremulous sound): quaver, tremble, tremolo, vibrato
Translations
Verb
wobble (third-person singular simple present wobbles, present participle wobbling, simple past and past participle wobbled)
- (intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
- (intransitive) To tremble or quaver.
- (intransitive) To vacillate in one's opinions.
- (transitive) To cause to wobble.
Synonyms
- (move with an uneven or rocking motion): judder, shake, shudder, tremble
- (quaver): quaver, quiver, tremble
- (vacillate): falter, vacillate, waffle, waver
- (cause to wobble): jiggle, rock, shake, wiggle
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- beblow
wobble From the web:
- what wobbles in the sky
- what wobbles
- what wobble means
- what wobbles in the sky a jelly copter
- what wobblers syndrome
- what wobbles when it flies
- what wobbles on a plate
- what's wobblers in dogs
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