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Creep

Verb

Definiciones

1.VerbTo move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
"Lizards and snakes crept over the ground."
2.VerbTo grow across a surface rather than upwards.
3.VerbTo move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
"He tried to creep past the guard without being seen."
4.VerbTo make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
"Prices have been creeping up all year."
5.VerbTo move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to insinuate itself or oneself.
"Old age creeps upon us."
6.VerbTo slip, or to become slightly displaced.
"The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.; The quicksilver on a mirror may creep."
7.VerbTo move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
"A creeping sycophant."
8.VerbTo have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
"The sight made my flesh creep."
9.VerbTo drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
10.VerbTo covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
11.NounThe movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
12.NounA relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
13.NounA slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
14.NounThe gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
"Christmas creep; feature creep; instruction creep; mission creep"
15.NounIn sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
16.NounAn increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
17.NounThe imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
18.NounSomeone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
19.NounA person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
20.NounA barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
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