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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.

ChatGPT

  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. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

    I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.

  2. Omar Khayym:

    And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for It As impotently moves as you or I.

  3. Omar Khayyám:

    And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.

  4. Sipho P Nkosi:

    Life can be harsh sometimes, whatever happens keep crawling forward even if you are on your knees.

  5. Rita Wilson:

    This leased house that we were living in -- there was an unfinished room downstairs where there was standing water and black mold. It was crawling up through the dry wall, like worms almost, into the air conditioning and heating ducts, and we were breathing it in for the four years. I got the fungus in my lung which can kill you.

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