Definizione monolingua

crawl

crawl (third-person singular simple present crawls, present participle crawling, simple past and past participle crawled)

1. (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

   Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.

2. (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

   The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.

3. (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.

   Dont come crawling to me with your useless apologies!

4. (intransitive, with ""with"") See crawl with.
5. (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.

   The horrible sight made my skin crawl.

6. (intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.

   I think Ill crawl the next hundred metres.

7. (transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.

   The baby crawled the entire second floor.

8. (intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated.

   They crawled the downtown bars.

9. (transitive) 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.

crawl (plural crawls)

1. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops
2. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick
3. (television) A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

Definizione dizionario crawl

	crawl
	swimming stroke

	nuotare a crawl
	to swim using crawl stroke

	effettuare una ricerca per indicizzazione
	To compile and organize entries for a search engine or content index by reading Web pages or other content.

brulicare

montare

scalare

scivolare

strisciare

trascinare

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops

to move over an area on hands and knees

(television) A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

to act in a servile manner

to move slowly

(intransitive) To act in a servile manner.

(intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.

(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

to teem or swarm

A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick

(intransitive, with "with") See crawl with.

slow movement on hands and knees, or with frequent stops

to feel swarming sensation

to move along the ground on hands and knees

(intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.

(to) crawl

(transitive) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

(intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated.

(transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.

(to) creep