creep

C1 CET-4 Oxf 5000 大学 FREQ #5172 ★★☆☆☆

n. 爬, 徐行, 蠕动 vi. 爬, 蔓延, 潜行

发音

US /kɹiːp/

词形变化

creeps 复数 creeps creeped creepest creepeth creeping creeps 三单 crept crept'st creptst crope cropen creeping 现在分词 crept 过去式 creeped 过去式 crope 过去式 crept 过去分词 creeped 过去分词 crope 过去分词 cropen 过去式 cropen 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

爬行;毛骨悚然的感觉;谄媚者

动词

爬行;蔓延;慢慢地移动;起鸡皮疙瘩

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.

    不可数 可数

    Christmas creep

    feature creep

    instruction creep

    mission creep

  3. 3.

    In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.

    可数 不可数 媒体
  4. 4.

    An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.

    潜变

    蠕变

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.

    可数 不可数 地质
  6. 6.

    Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.

    可数 贬义 非正式 不可数
  7. 7.

    A person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.

    可数 贬义 非正式 不可数
  8. 8.

    A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

    可数 不可数 植物学 商务
  9. 9.

    The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).

    可数 不可数
  10. 10.

    A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.

    可数 不可数
v. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

    不及物

    Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.

  2. 2.

    To grow across a surface rather than upwards.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

    不及物

    He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.

  4. 4.

    To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

    不及物

    Prices have been creeping up all year.

  5. 5.

    To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

    Old age creeps upon us.

  6. 6.

    To 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. 7.

    To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

    A creeping sycophant.

  8. 8.

    To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

    The sight made my flesh creep.

  9. 9.

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

  10. 10.

    To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.

    不及物 俚语 非裔美国英语

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English crepen, from Old English crēopan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ- (“to turn, wind”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian krûpe (“to creep, crawl”), Central Franconian kruffe (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Low German krepen, krupen (“to creep, crawl”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Faroese krúpa (“to creep”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to kneel down, to genuflect, to get down on one's knees”), Norwegian Bokmål krype (“to creep”), Norwegian Nynorsk krjupa, krjupe, krypa, krype (“to creep, crawl”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”). The noun is derived from the verb. Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kreupaną Proto-West Germanic *kreupan Old English crēopan Middle English crepen English creep

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