crawl Význam & definícia

Význam crawl v slovenčine

• 0 to move along on hands and knees or with your body stretched out along a surface:

  • The child crawled across the floor.

  • Megan has just learned to crawl.

  • The injured soldier crawled to safety.

  • He had to crawl along a ledge and get in through a window.

  • The lorry crawled noisily up the hill.

  • There's a lot of work to be done and we're crawling along at a snail's pace.

• 1 to try hard to please in order to get an advantage:

  • I don't like people who crawl.

  • He crawled to the group leader because he wanted a promotion.

• 2 to be completely covered with or full of a particular type of thing:

  • After the bomb scare, the airport was crawling with police.

• 3 a style of swimming in which you move your arms over your head and kick with straight legs

• 4 a very slow speed:

  • Traffic moved forward at a crawl.

• 5 to move slowly with the body stretched out along the ground or (of a human) on hands and knees:

  • a caterpillar crawling in the grass

  • The child crawled across the floor.

  • fig. The train crawled slowly through the night.

• 6 a way of swimming fast by lying with your chest down, kicking your legs, and raising first one arm then the other out of the water to move yourself forward

• 7 a very slow rate of speed:

  • Traffic slowed to a crawl (= a very slow speed).