creep
/kɹiːp/ sustantivo C2En español: deformación por fluencia lenta, desgraciado, alimaña, depravado
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively. · feature creep· instruction creep
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
Plural creeps
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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“Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!”
Creep forward quietly and see what they are doing—but for heaven’s sake don’t let them know that they are watched!”
After having passed with tolerable ease through the subterranean passage, which, however, did not admit of their holding themselves erect, the two friends reached the further end of the corridor, into which the abbé’s cell opened; from that point the passage became much narrower, and barely permitted one to creep through on hands and knees.
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