資料來源 : pyDict

爬行,蠕動,潛行,躡手躡腳地走

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Creep \Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. {Crept} (kr[e^]pt) ({Crope}
   (kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. {Crept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Creeping}.]
   [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G.
   kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. {Cripple},
   {Crouch}.]
   1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the
      belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the
      hands and knees; to crawl.

            Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly
            creep.                                --Milton.

   2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from
      unwillingness, fear, or weakness.

            The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail,
            Unwillingly to school.                --Shak.

            Like a guilty thing, I creep.         --Tennyson.

   3. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move
      imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate
      itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.

            The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of
            argument.                             --Locke.

            Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and
            lead captive silly women.             --2. Tim. iii.
                                                  6.

   4. To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the
      collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep
      in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

   5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility;
      to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

            To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak.

   6. To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some
      other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by
      tendrils, along its length. ``Creeping vines.'' --Dryden.

   7. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of
      the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See
      {Crawl}, v. i., 4.

   8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a
      submarine cable.

Creep \Creep\, n.
   1. The act or process of creeping.

   2. A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by
      the creeping of insects.

            A creep of undefinable horror.        --Blackwood's
                                                  Mag.

            Out of the stillness, with gathering creep, Like
            rising wind in leaves.                --Lowell.

   3. (Mining) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery,
      occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the
      pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.

資料來源 : WordNet®

creep
     n 1: someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: {weirdo}, {weirdie},
           {weirdy}, {spook}]
     2: a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
     3: a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but
        adults cannot
     4: a slow creeping 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" [syn: {crawl},
         {crawling}, {creeping}]
     [also: {crept}]

creep
     v 1: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body
          near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the
          riverbed" [syn: {crawl}]
     2: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around
        spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: {sneak}, {mouse}, {steal},
         {pussyfoot}]
     3: grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example);
        "ivy grew over the walls of the university buildings"
        [syn: {grow over}]
     4: show submission or fear [syn: {fawn}, {crawl}, {cringe}, {cower},
         {grovel}]
     [also: {crept}]