(n.) One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
(n.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
(n.) A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.
(n.) A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
(n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.
(n.) A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
(n.) An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.
(n.) Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
(n.) Crockets. See Crocket.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conveniently, it is not far from the Via Algarviana , allowing us to leave the car and hike the stretch to Alte (16km), passing shuttered houses smothered in creepers in old, abandoned villages.
(2) To our right, four miles of wide clean beach, fringed by bumpy low sand dunes sprouted here and there with couch grass, flowering creepers and low bushes.
(3) The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
(4) Very basically, there remain two different experiences: the Creative mode which gives you access to all the building blocks and "mobs" (AI characters) in the world allowing you to build anything you want; and the Survival mode, where you must mine for minerals with which to craft items and weapons, while avoiding exploding creepers, giant spiders and lurking zombies.
(5) Unlike the previous limited run Minecraft sets, which feature small sections of blocky landscape and teeny creepers and zombies, the two new sets The Cave and The Farm are scaled around normal-sized minifigure models – like most of the major Lego series.
(6) Creepers with a dissociated pattern of learning to sit and crawlers with muscular hypotonia were found to have an increased risk for later handicap.
(7) Because in Minecraft the night is full of horrors – spiders, skeletons, zombies and camouflaged creepers, all of which have an eerie ability to pursue you relentlessly and remorselessly.
(8) The Virginia creeper-clad house is in 18 acres of parkland and mature gardens that stretch down to the Atlantic shoreline.
(9) They call him the Shoreditch Creeper and ascertain that he's a Siouxsie & The Banshees fan.
(10) Spooky Bizzle , DJ and producer of Slew Dem crew, says: "If it wasn't for the tunes that built the foundation, like Danny Weed's Creeper , Dizzee Rascal's Hoe , Wiley's Eskimo or Youngstar's Pulse X " – the record considered the first-ever grime release, from early 2002 – "or even watching my peers around me constructing their own grime beats, then I wouldn't be doing what I do now."
(11) We haven't yet got creepers growing up the escalators in our abandoned malls like the ones in Lawless's photos, but – exactly 150 years since John Lewis opened his first store in Oxford Street – we may be entering a new shopping era.
(12) Everything is much at it was in his time: in the classical creeper-covered manor, you can peer at the black leather sofa on which the author and his 13 children were born.
(13) Of the 19 plants tested, only 6 induced clinical signs of illness; these plants included yew, oleander, clematis, avocado, black locust, and Virginia creeper (Taxus media, Nerium oleander, Clematis sp, Persea americana, Robinia pseudoacacia, Parthenocissus quinquefolio).
(14) He gave the example of a creeper virus that allows the tracking of a Facebook user even if their phone is not transmitting.
(15) As with the irradiated settlements around Chernobyl today, human flight lets the foliage in, wooden buildings disintegrate completely, and stone buildings are eventually pulled apart by creepers and roots.
(16) A dozen varieties – including Virginia creepers, Boston ivy and Dutchman’s pipe – cover the walls surrounding its vast bay windows.
(17) • Doubles from € 74 B&B, +353 1 648 0010, kellysdublin.com Dublin: Number 31 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy If you’re prepared to pay that little bit more in the capital, but get quite a lot more in return, this boutique B&B, in a mews, behind a creeper-covered wall a five-minute walk from St Stephen’s Green, is hard to beat.
(18) Corbyn also appeared on the cover of Kerrang alongside members of the bands Creeper and Architects.
(19) This week they’re dancing the Charleston to Al Donahue's 'Jeepers Creepers', which is a fabulous Charleston tune.
(20) The house is set among trees, behind an unlocked gate, and there are ramshackle outbuildings covered in creepers.
Machine
Definition:
(n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
(n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
(n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
(n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
(n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
(n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations.
(4) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(5) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(6) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
(7) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(8) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(9) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(10) Placing the collection bag at the base of the machine provided excellent plasma removal rates with only minimal blood flows.
(11) Best Buy – it says the machine "churns excellent ice cream quickly and without too much noise".
(12) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
(13) This algorithm is not only efficient for the recognition of order and disorder in "machine vision", but also plausible in biological visual perception.
(14) Flat surfaces could be machined on the originally cylindrical surface to reduce the severity of these aberrations.
(15) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(16) We compared the time taken to obtain clear airway, when patients were receiving 4.5 or 6 l.min-1 fresh flow by anesthetic machines.
(17) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(18) Bleeps, pagers and fax machines are still used for communicating vital information.
(19) A new technique is described, in which a copy machine (Rank-Xerox) is used for instantaneous reproduction of biological assays.
(20) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?