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crawl·ing

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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"

Wikipedia

  1. Crawling

    Crawling is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. It is the second single from their debut album Hybrid Theory and is the fifth track on the album. It was released in 2000 as their second single and won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2002. In January 2011, "Crawling" was released in a Linkin Park DLC pack for Rock Band 3.

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  1. crawling

    Crawling generally refers to the movement process wherein an individual or animal moves forward by dragging or pulling their body along the ground, often using the hands and knees for support. In the context of technology and computing, crawling refers to an automated process where a software called a crawler visits websites and indexes or gathers information for later retrieval and analysis.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Crawling

    of Crawl

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of crawling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of crawling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of crawling in a Sentence

  1. Martinez Fischer:

    With the eyes of the nation watching us, we knew that we had to rise up and demonstrate to our friends in Washington, and as I said last night, Mr. President we humbly ask you for a federal solution, please give us federal voting rights act, what we did last night is the equivalent of us crawling on our knees to federal officials to tell( them), the time to act is now -- if not Texas, then when ?

  2. Firefighter John Loennecker:

    They were crawling on their knees for about an hour, it was dark down there. They had one cell phone light, and that was it.

  3. Emma Poole:

    That would be the most logical, at this point … that it was from above, so that is obviously something they would be looking at is someone crawling through the ventilation system.

  4. Olga Santiago:

    It's critical to diagnose early and to begin treatment as early as possible to stop the irreversible motor neuron loss, and make the achievement of motor milestones such as crawling, sitting and walking possible.

  5. Blake Collins:

    They're crawling on our bed sheets, they're crawling on our mattress.

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