(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.
Reelection
Definition:
(n.) Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .
(2) Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) China's Communist Party has now publicly praised Obama's reelection.
(3) But even his admirers would hesitate to call him a great economist, and after FDR's landslide reelection in 1936, Morgenthau made cutting the federal deficit his personal cause.
(4) But some of the key groups of supporters who brought Corbyn the leadership and secured his reelection in September – young, internationalist, liberal – feel strongly that Brexit is wrong for Britain.
(5) Why is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not standing for reelection 3. Who can stand in the election?
(6) Bush received roughly 40% of the Latino vote share in his 2004 reelection.
(7) The amendment's success came as House Republicans were preoccupied with selecting a new majority leader to replace Virginia's Eric Cantor, who lost his reelection primary.
(8) That it was more than just a personal bugbear became clear in June 2013, when we learned that PennCAN, yet another so-called “school-reform” group focused on vouchers, privatization, and the destruction of public schooling, had financed a “secret poll” that encouraged Corbett to attack the PFT in hopes of gaining support ahead of his midterm reelection campaign.
(9) Greece needs to take its responsibility [seriously] … we will also speak with Turkey .” But Greece’s leftist Syriza party, bidding for reelection in next Sunday’s vote, called for external help in dealing with the crisis.
(10) In a further challenge to his reelection chances for 2017, the party’s national council announced on Saturday that it would back a primary contest to select a single presidential candidate for the broader French left – a prospect that is likely to embolden potential Socialist challengers.
(11) • Back to the top Why is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not standing for reelection?
(12) To have a chance of being reelected, he must win over a large part of the record 6.4 million people who voted for the far right's Marine Le Pen in the first round.
(13) Clinton said the pattern of mass killings – the Umpqua shooting was the 994th such incident in the US since Obama’s reelection in late 2012 – was “beyond my comprehension”.
(14) She’s up for reelection for a third term in March but has been hemorrhaging public support since the case broke.
(15) His post-reelection tweets also included: " What subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birthcontrol abortions & lives " and " Goodluk America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide.
(16) It may not be this Trump, but it could be the Trump in four years time, as America becomes a society shaped by global forces that Washington can’t control.” Responding to a question about rising popular discontent with the Australian, US and UK establishments and support for Brexit, Trump, and newly reelected senator Pauline Hanson, Carr said there was a “self-correcting process” and Trump as president would result in “an enormous rethinking”.
(17) They wanted this moment of political opportunity, and they wanted it in time for Corbett’s reelection.
(18) Reelected in 1997 for the seat of Hampshire North West following boundary changes, he served as William Hague's shadow defence secretary from 1997 to 1998.
(19) Its director, Ahmad Moeinimanesh, has made personal financial donations to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chair of the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee even though her congressional district is on the other side of the country in Florida, as well as to her reelection committee.
(20) A headline in the Washington Post even called it “the unofficial kickoff of his 2020 reelection campaign ”, suggesting that in the age of permanent campaigning, Trump will spend the next four years trying to shore up the support in the midwest that was so crucial to his success.