Crawl vs. Creep

Crawl vs. Creep — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Crawl and Creep

Crawlverb

(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.

Creepverb

(intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.

Crawlverb

(intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.

Creepverb

(intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

Crawlverb

(intransitive) To act in a servile manner.

Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!

Creepverb

(intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
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Crawlverb

See crawl with.

Creepverb

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

Prices have been creeping up all year.

Crawlverb

(intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.

The horrible sight made my skin crawl.

Creepverb

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.

Crawlverb

(intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.

I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres.

Creepverb

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.
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Crawlverb

(transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.

The baby crawled the entire second floor.

Creepverb

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

A creeping sycophant.

Crawlverb

(intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated.

They crawled the downtown bars.

Creepverb

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

The sight made my flesh creep.

Crawlverb

(transitive) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficiently.

Creepverb

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

Crawlnoun

The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops.

Creepnoun

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

Crawlnoun

A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.

Creepnoun

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

Crawlnoun

(figurative) A very slow pace.

My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.

Creepnoun

A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something

Crawlnoun

A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

Creepnoun

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

Christmas creep. Feature creep. Instruction creep. Mission creep

Crawlnoun

A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

Creepnoun

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

Crawlnoun

a very slow movement;

the traffic advanced at a crawl

Creepnoun

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

Crawlnoun

a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick

Creepnoun

(geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.

Crawlnoun

a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body);

a crawl was all that the injured man could managethe traffic moved at a creep

Creepnoun

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Crawlverb

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground;

The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed

Creepnoun

A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.

Stop following me, you creep!

Crawlverb

feel as if crawling with insects;

My skin crawled--I was terrified

Creepnoun

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

Crawlverb

be crawling with;

The old cheese was crawling with maggots

Creepnoun

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Crawlverb

show submission or fear

Creepnoun

a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

Crawlverb

swim by doing the crawl;

European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl

Creepnoun

a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

Creepnoun

a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body);

a crawl was all that the injured man could managethe traffic moved at a creep

Creepverb

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground;

The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed

Creepverb

to go stealthily or furtively;

..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house

Creepverb

grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example);

ivy grew over the walls of the university buildings

Creepverb

show submission or fear