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 |
inflation | the act of filling something with air |
inflation therapy | therapy in which water or oxygen or a drug is introduced into the respiratory tract with inhaled air |
ostentation ostentatiousness pomposity pompousness pretentiousness puffiness splashiness inflation | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity |
inflation | (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang |
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 |
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 |
cost-pull inflation | inflation caused by an increase in the costs of production |
demand-pull inflation | inflation caused by an increase in demand or in the supply of money |
inflation rising prices | a general and progressive increase in prices, in inflation everything gets more valuable except money |
inflation rate rate of inflation | the rate of change of prices (as indicated by a price index) calculated on a monthly or annual basis |