crawl crawling creep creeping | a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body, a crawl was all that the injured man could manage, the traffic moved at a creep |
relay | the act of passing something along from one person or group to another, the relay was successful |
crawl | a very slow movement, the traffic advanced at a crawl |
crawl front crawl Australian crawl | a swimming stroke, arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick |
pub crawl | a tour of bars or public houses (usually taking one drink at each stop) |
booster booster amplifier booster station relay link relay station relay transmitter | an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal |
relay electrical relay | electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit |
relay relay race | a race between teams, each member runs or swims part of the distance |
relay | a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals |
relay | a crew of workers who relieve another crew |
crawlspace crawl space | low space beneath a floor of a building, gives workers access to wiring or plumbing |
a go to bed turn in bed crawl in kip down hit the hay hit the sack sack out go to sleep retire | prepare for sleep, I usually turn in at midnight, He goes to bed at the crack of dawn |
relay | pass along, Please relay the news to the villagers |
pub-crawl bar hop | go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk, he pub-crawled around Birmingham |
relay | control or operate by relay |
crawl creep | move slowly, in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground, The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed |
crawl | swim by doing the crawl, European children learn the breast stroke, they often don't know how to crawl |
fawn crawl creep cringe cower grovel | show submission or fear |
crawl | be full of, The old cheese was crawling with maggots |
crawl | feel as if crawling with insects, My skin crawled--I was terrified |