| crawling | | |
| n. (act) | 1. 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" |
| ~ locomotion, travel | self-propelled movement. |
| creeping | | |
| reptile | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. reptile, reptilian | any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms. |
| ~ craniate, vertebrate | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium. |
| ~ class reptilia, reptilia | class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals. |
| ~ anapsid, anapsid reptile | primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles. |
| ~ diapsid, diapsid reptile | reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye. |
| ~ diapsida, subclass diapsida | used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria. |
| ~ synapsid, synapsid reptile | extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull. |
| crawl | | |
| n. (act) | 1. crawl | a very slow movement.; "the traffic advanced at a crawl" |
| ~ movement, move, motion | the act of changing location from one place to another.; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" |
| n. (act) | 2. australian crawl, crawl, front crawl | a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick. |
| ~ swimming stroke | a method of moving the arms and legs to push against the water and propel the swimmer forward. |
| ~ flutter kick | a swimming kick; the legs are moved rapidly up and down without bending the knees. |
| v. (motion) | 3. crawl, creep | move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground.; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| ~ formicate | crawl about like ants. |
| v. (stative) | 4. crawl | feel as if crawling with insects.; "My skin crawled--I was terrified" |
| ~ feel | be felt or perceived in a certain way.; "The ground feels shaky"; "The sheets feel soft" |
| v. (stative) | 5. crawl | be full of.; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots" |
| ~ pullulate, swarm, teem | be teeming, be abuzz.; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" |
| v. (motion) | 6. cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel | show submission or fear. |
| ~ bend, flex | form a curve.; "The stick does not bend" |
| v. (motion) | 7. crawl | swim by doing the crawl.; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl" |
| ~ aquatics, water sport | sports that involve bodies of water. |
| ~ swim | travel through water.; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank" |
| creep | | |
| n. (person) | 1. creep, spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy | someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric. |
| ~ disagreeable person, unpleasant person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. |
| n. (event) | 2. creep | a slow longitudinal movement or deformation. |
| ~ change of location, travel | a movement through space that changes the location of something. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. creep | a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot. |
| ~ pen | an enclosure for confining livestock. |
| v. (motion) | 4. creep, mouse, pussyfoot, sneak | to go stealthily or furtively.; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" |
| ~ walk | use one's feet to advance; advance by steps.; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" |
| v. (motion) | 5. creep | grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface).; "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings" |
| ~ diffuse, fan out, spread out, spread | move outward.; "The soldiers fanned out" |
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