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 |
current intelligence | intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest, usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation |
tidal flow tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
riptide rip current | a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore |
current stream | a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes), the raft floated downstream on the current, he felt a stream of air, the hose ejected a stream of water |
stream flow current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
alternating current AC alternating electric current | an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally, In the US most household current is AC atcycles per second |
current electric current | a flow of electricity through a conductor, the current was measured in amperes |
direct current DC direct electric current | an electric current that flows in one direction steadily |
ocean current | the steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction |
equatorial current | any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator |
North Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator |
South Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just south of the equator |
Japan current Kuroshio current Kuroshio | a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean |
Peruvian current Humboldt current | a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west |
dynamic electricity current electricity | a flow of electric charge |
thermionic current | an electric current produced between two electrodes as a result of electrons emitted by thermionic emission |
wind air current current of air | air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure, trees bent under the fierce winds, when there is no wind, row, the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere |
creeping juniper Juniperus horizontalis | low to prostrate shrub of Canada and northern United States, bronzed purple in winter |
creeping buttercup creeping crowfoot Ranunculus repens | perennial European herb with long creeping stolons |
Canada thistle creeping thistle Cirsium arvense | European thistle naturalized in United States and Canada where it is a pernicious weed |
creeping zinnia Sanvitalia procumbens | low-branching leafy annual with flower heads resembling zinnias, found in southwestern United States and Mexico to Guatemala |
creeping bellflower Campanula rapunculoides | erect European herb with creeping rootstocks and nodding spikelike racemes of blue to violet flowers |
moneywort creeping Jenny creeping Charlie Lysimachia nummularia | a loosestrife vine |
creeping bent creeping bentgrass Agrostis palustris | common pasture or lawn grass spread by long runners |
windmill grass creeping windmill grass star grass Chloris truncata | perennial Australian grass having numerous long spikes arranged like the vanes of a windmill |
creeping soft grass Holcus mollis | European perennial grass with soft velvety foliage |
creeping spike rush Eleocharis palustris | cylindrical-stemmed sedge |
creeping snowberry moxie plum maidenhair berry Gaultheria hispidula | slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds |
teaberry wintergreen checkerberry mountain tea groundberry ground-berry creeping wintergreen Gaultheria procumbens | creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil |
creeping St John's wort Hypericum calycinum | creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers, useful as ground cover |
gloriosa glory lily climbing lily creeping lily Gloriosa superba | any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia, a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers, all parts are poisonous |
creeping oxalis creeping wood sorrel Oxalis corniculata | creeping much-branched mat-forming weed, cosmopolitan |
creeping willow Salix repens | small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated |
red currant garden current Ribes rubrum | cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries |
creeping bugle Ajuga reptans | low rhizomatous European carpeting plant having spikes of blue flowers, naturalized in parts of United States |
wild thyme creeping thyme Thymus serpyllum | aromatic dwarf shrub common on banks and hillsides in Europe, naturalized in United States |
creeping fern Hartford fern Lygodium palmatum | delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds |
liquid assets current assets quick assets | assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash) |
checking account chequing account current account | a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks that are payable on demand |
current account | that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments |
current unit | a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time |
current | occurring in or belonging to the present time, current events, the current topic, current negotiations, current psychoanalytic theories, the ship's current position |