creeper

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.

   “Standing Waters[…] are most unwholesome, putrified, and full of mites, creepers, slimy, muddy, uncleane, corrupt, impure, by reason of the Suns heat, and still standing;”

2. isim Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
3. isim A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
4. isim A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
5. isim A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
6. isim A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
7. isim A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
8. isim An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
9. isim Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
10. isim Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.

    “Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.”

11. isim A treecreeper.
12. isim Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
13. isim A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
14. isim The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.

    “Throwing it in creeper and then getting out to work alongside is strictly forbidden because it is too dangerous if anything goes wrong.”

15. isim A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.

    “If my phone rings while I'm on a creeper underneath the car with oil on my hands, well, the caller will just have to leave a voicemail.”

16. isim A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.

    “Don't go to a nightclub to find a boyfriend. They're all creepers there.”

17. isim A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
18. isim A ball that travels low, near ground level.

    “May joined Hutton and proceeded to play masterly cricket in which the straight-drive predominated. There was always the possibility that he might be trapped by a creeper, but May watched the ball intently.”