CREEP : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: CREEP	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for CREEP
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
creep n someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric [syn: creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook] a slow longitudinal movement or deformation a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot 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" Synonym(s): crawl, crawling, creep, creeping v move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" Synonym(s): crawl, creep to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" Synonym(s): sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings" show submission or fear Synonym(s): fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Creep \Creep\ (kr[emac]p), v. t. [imp. {Crept} (kr[ecr]pt) ({Crope} (kr[omac]p), Obs.); p. p. {Crept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Creeping}.] [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre[oacute]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. [bd]Creeping vines.[b8] --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.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
creep v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.