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Princeton's WordNet

  1. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingnoun

    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"

ChatGPT

  1. creeping

    Creeping refers to the action of slowly and stealthily moving or advancing, often to avoid detection. However, in other contexts such as botany, it may describe plants with stems that grow along the ground, putting out roots at intervals. It can also refer to an uncontrolled or unplanned gradual increase or spread of a phenomenon, situation or condition.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Creeping

    of Creep

  2. Creepingadjective

    crawling, or moving close to the ground

  3. Creepingadjective

    growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Creeping

    A phenomenon of capillarity, often annoying in battery jars. The solution, by capillarity, rises a little distance up the sides, evaporates, and as it dries more creeps up through it, and to a point a little above it. This action is repeated until a layer of the salts may form over the top of the vessel. To avoid it, paraffine is often applied to the edges of the cup, or a layer of oil, often linseed oil, is poured on the battery solution,

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CREEPING in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CREEPING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of CREEPING in a Sentence

  1. Yves Guillemot:

    We don't want them sitting on the board, because they're implementing a creeping control strategy to take over the company.

  2. Marshal Cohen:

    But in this time of inflation, where even low prices are creeping up, pockets and frankly anything to get the consumer excited about ‘newness’ is key.

  3. Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711:

    Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

  4. Yiatan Chu:

    Many of the things creeping into progressive schools are things that the state supports but a lot of parents do not, the moms voting for Lee Zeldin want a return to the foundations of education: math, reading and science. We don't need political activism or age-inappropriate lessons for our kids.

  5. Annie Powell:

    We are seeing a creeping erosion of employment rights as companies misclassify their workers as self-employed so as to avoid paying them holiday pay and the national minimum wage.

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  • Elias Brito Sanchez
    Elias Brito Sanchez
    la palabra "creeping" debe tener un significado de algun tipo de animal. Eso es lo que trato de investigar...Gracias
    LikeReply8 years ago

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