(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
(n.) The act or process of creeping.
(n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The estimated Ki's for inhibition of myocardial creep currents were 3 microM for dodecylamin, 10 micron for quinacrine, and 4 microM for 3',4'-dichlorobenzamil.
(2) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
(3) Diarrhoea occurred in some animals after weaning, but did not occur in pigs which did not have access to creep food before weaning.
(4) The osteoconductive properties were promising; creeping bone formation could be observed, although no complete fusion had been achieved at 24 weeks.
(5) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(6) These differences in creep force can be qualitatively accounted for by differences in sarcomere dynamics.
(7) One-year follow-up studies showed that 2 patients with a malignant gastric tumour had recurrence 9 months after the combined treatment; I patient has recurrence in the same terms after similar treatment of creeping benign adenoma.
(8) However, the PTFE suture did exhibit some viscoelastic characteristics (hysteresis and creep) that begin to approach the chordal behavior.
(9) [ View the story "Creeping Sharia - A snapshot" on Storify ] • Follow Comment is free on Twitter @commentisfree • This article was amended on 17 April 2012.
(10) While the protesters' demands are varied, their unanimous target is Beijing – its creeping influence over the city's boardrooms, newspapers, classrooms and courts.
(11) The tetrapeptide Gly-His-Arg-Pro at comparable concentrations decreased the modulus and increased the creep to a lesser degree; when combined with Gly-Pro-Arg-Pro it enhanced the effectiveness of the latter.
(12) This type of ventilation brought about changes in viscous properties, measured during creep and oscillation of the mucus, which would be expected to reduce mucus clearance in vivo.
(13) But fresh evidence that waiting times are creeping up, despite David Cameron's pledge to keep them low, has forced Lansley to change tack and impose an extra treatment directive on the NHS.
(14) His free-kick was decent, he whipped the ball around the ball, but it was half-cleared before it could creep inside the far post.
(15) Since prosthetic meniscal replacement may be performed in the setting of normal articular cartilage, a prosthesis will be required to match the exact joint configuration, induce the same lubricity, produce the same coefficient of friction, and absorb and dampen the same joint forces (without incurring significant creep or abrasion) as does the normal meniscus.
(16) Calcification was slightly heavier and the degree of creep was significantly greater in the mitral position.
(17) The effect outside Syria’s borders, of refugees and the creep of global terror, continues to raise the stakes.
(18) Diacridines linked by a rigid, polar but neutral dicarbamoylpyrazole chain retain slow exchange kinetics, have a greatly reduced potential "creep rate", and possess good in vitro potency and significant in vivo antileukemic activity.
(19) Acceleration of the creep test by increasing the test temperature permits an estimation whether the creep properties of a material are within the required limits within a week.
(20) The lessons of creeping loss of control made us decide to go private again if we possibly could.
Hobble
Definition:
(n. i.) To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
(n. i.) To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.
(v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.
(v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass.
(n.) An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.
(n.) Same as Hopple.
(n.) Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.
Example Sentences:
(1) 12.55pm GMT 37 min: Doyle is trying to carry on but hobbling around like a car-park attendant (they always hobble don’t they?
(2) The US dabbled ineffectually in helping the rebel cause, hobbled by uncertainty over the groups it was dealing with.
(3) Come the time, I will gladly hobble down the road with a trolley, nurse half a bitter for two hours, and spend whole days in front of the TV.
(4) Liverpool running more under Jürgen Klopp than with Brendan Rodgers Read more With Kolo Touré hobbling at the end of the 1-0 win, albeit with cramp according to the former Ivory Coast international, Klopp could be without all four of his established central defenders at Exeter City on Friday in the FA Cup third round.
(5) Trapattoni raised hopes that Simon Cox would be fine despite hobbling off with an ankle injury in added time.
(6) Despite the spat between Apple and Adobe, which means that the iPad is hobbled by its inability to play Flash content, it's still a wonderful device for consuming media.
(7) "I've had a lot more fun watching and arguing about the Twilight movies than I ever had with the Star Wars saga, that lumbering, narratively hobbled space opera," he blasphemed recently .
(8) Gathering more support – or hobbling the opposition – for marriage equality because you've shamed critics into silence, or over-spent them into irrelevance may not be the prettiest way to win a human right, but save your concerns about looking good for the wedding.
(9) Their effort to amend the Fisa Amendments Act was ultimately unsuccessful – something they warned would hobble Congress' oversight functions.
(10) Updated at 8.20pm GMT 8.15pm GMT 28 min: Pablo Zabaleta is still hobbling in the wake of that enthusiastic challenge for which Danny Welbeck was booked earlier.
(11) Mention a pre-1914 designer like Poiret, of hobble-skirt fame, and he smiles: "Fashion was a little naive in those days, both the clothes and the way people talked about them.
(12) A Walcott cross came to Giroud and he smacked home and then, after Ramsey hobbled off, the England man made it comfortable, finishing a neat pass from the thus far muted Joel Campbell.
(13) But my love for you is full of guilt and regret, sometimes heavy enough to hobble my steps.
(14) Zidane hobbled back against Denmark, who were too strong against 10 and a half men, and won 2-0.
(15) The visitors had another goal ruled out for the substitute striker Stefano Okaka who then had to hobble off injured in injury time.
(16) Republicans and White House officials fear that the currency issue is a “poison pill” designed to hobble trade negotiations in a way that would prove unacceptable to other countries negotiating the giant Pacific trade bill.
(17) Operation Inherent Resolve, as the US-led anti-Isis campaign was clunkily named, has demonstrated how so many Middle Eastern problems are inherently unresolved, in the words of a recent study by the Rusi thinktank , and are hobbling collective efforts.
(18) Lakers fans can take solace in the fact that the Spurs really didn't blow out the Lakers, they merely put an end to a hobbled, lurching mockery of what their team was supposed to be.
(19) I always remember this guy running because we are all running and he was hobbling and I thought he'd hurt his leg … We were running to the fence, thinking they couldn't get past this bollard, and this guy just went that way and, well, the [police vehicle] just flattened him, and went right over him.
(20) Taylor will appeal and that is the right thing for him to do," the smartly-dressed Collins said, as amputees – some hobbling on crutches – streamed past him.