
Creep
Creep appears in the following palindrome (phrase that reads the same backward as forward):
- "Turn a creep on?" wonder I, tired now, "no peer can rut!"
Distribution of usage frequency for the most common synonyms of the noun creep:
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Definition of the noun creep
What does creep mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: creeps
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
- lexical domain: People - nouns denoting people
- synonyms of creep: spook / weirdie / weirdo / weirdy
- more generic terms: disagreeable person / unpleasant person = a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
- a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
- lexical domain: Natural Events - nouns denoting natural events
- more generic terms: change of location / travel = a movement through space that changes the location of something
- a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
- a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
Alternative definition of the noun creep
noun
- 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.
- [context: publishing] In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- [context: materials science] An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- [geology] The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- [context: informal, pejorative] An annoying irritating person
- [context: informal, pejorative] A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.
- [context: agriculture] A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
Definition of the verb creep
What does creep mean as a doing word?
Creep is one of the top 1000 most common verbs in the English language.
verb - inflections:
simple past | past participle | present participle | third-person singular |
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crept | crept | creeping | creeps |
- move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- examples: The crowds creep in the streets | The streets creep with crowds
- syntax:
Syntactic formula Example for the syntactic formula Verbs with the same syntax there [Verb] [Theme, indefinite] [Path Preposition] [Location] There jumped a little white rabbit out of the box Verbs of Motion: amble, backpack, bolt, bounce, bound, bowl, canter, carom, cavort, charge, clamber, climb, clump, coast, crawl, dart, dash, dodder, drift, file, flit, float, fly, frolic, gallop, gambol, glide, goose step, hasten, hike, hobble, hop, hurry, hurtle, inch, jog, journey, jump, leap, limp, lollop, lope, lumber, lurch, march, meander, mince, mosey, nip, pad, parade, perambulate, plod, prance, promenade, prowl, race, ramble, roam, roll, romp, rove, run, rush, sashay, saunter, scamper, scoot, scram, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, skedaddle, skip, skitter, skulk, sleepwalk, slide, slink, slither, slog, slouch, sneak, somersault, speed, stagger, step, stomp, stray, streak, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swagger, sweep, swerve, swim, tack, tear, tiptoe, toddle, toil, totter, tour, traipse, tramp, travel, trek, troop, trot, trudge, trundle, vault, waddle, wade, walk, wander, weave, whiz, zigzag, zoom there [Verb] [Path Preposition] [Location, concrete] [Theme, indefinite] There jumped out of the box a little white rabbit [Agent - being] [Verb] [Theme] He skated Penny | Tom jumped the horse [Agent - being] [Verb] [Theme] [Adjective] Bill rolled the drawer open | He rode her seasick | He skated Penny exhausted | Tom walked the dog exhausted [Agent - being] [Verb] [Theme] to / into [Oblique, state] Bill rolled the drawer to an open position | He rode her to sickness | He skated Penny to exhaustion | Tom walked the dog to exhaustion [Agent - being] [Verb] [Theme] [Spatial Preposition] [Location] Tom jumped the horse over the fence [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] The horse jumped [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] [Location, concrete] The horse jumped the stream [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] [Oblique 1] to / into [Oblique 2, state] Claire skated her skates blades to shreds | She waltzed herself to sickness | We walked ourselves into a state of exhaustion [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] [Oblique 1] [Path Preposition] [Oblique 2] Tom ran the soles off his shoes [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] [Spatial Preposition] [Location] The horse jumped over the fence [Path Preposition] [Location] [Verb] [Theme] Out of the box jumped a little white rabbit there [Verb] [Theme, indefinite] [Locative Preposition] [Location] There swarm bees in the garden Verbs of Existence: bustle, crawl, hop, run, swarm, swim, teem [Location - location, but not region] [Verb] with [Theme] The garden is swarming with bees [Theme - concrete, plural] [Verb] [Locative Preposition] [Location] A flag fluttered over the fort | Bees are swarming in the garden [Locative Preposition] [Location] [Verb] [Theme] In the aquarium swam a striped fish | Over the fort fluttered a flag - lexical domain: Motions - verbs of walking, flying, swimming
- synonym of creep: crawl
- more generic words: go / locomote / move / travel = change location
- more specific word: formicate = crawl about like ants
- to go stealthily or furtively
- example: The children creep to the playground
- syntax:
Syntactic formula Example for the syntactic formula there [Verb] [Theme, indefinite] [Path Preposition] [Location] There jumped a little white rabbit out of the box there [Verb] [Path Preposition] [Location, concrete] [Theme, indefinite] There jumped out of the box a little white rabbit [Agent - being] [Verb] [Theme] He skated Penny | Tom jumped the horse [Agent - being] [Verb] [Theme] [Adjective] Bill rolled the drawer open | He rode her seasick | He skated Penny exhausted | Tom walked the dog exhausted [Agent - being] [Verb] [Theme] to / into [Oblique, state] Bill rolled the drawer to an open position | He rode her to sickness | He skated Penny to exhaustion | Tom walked the dog to exhaustion [Agent - being] [Verb] [Theme] [Spatial Preposition] [Location] Tom jumped the horse over the fence [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] The horse jumped [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] [Location, concrete] The horse jumped the stream [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] [Oblique 1] to / into [Oblique 2, state] Claire skated her skates blades to shreds | She waltzed herself to sickness | We walked ourselves into a state of exhaustion [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] [Oblique 1] [Path Preposition] [Oblique 2] Tom ran the soles off his shoes [Theme - being or machine] [Verb] [Spatial Preposition] [Location] The horse jumped over the fence [Path Preposition] [Location] [Verb] [Theme] Out of the box jumped a little white rabbit Verbs of Motion (with the same syntax): amble, backpack, bolt, bounce, bound, bowl, canter, carom, cavort, charge, clamber, climb, clump, coast, crawl, dart, dash, dodder, drift, file, flit, float, fly, frolic, gallop, gambol, glide, goose step, hasten, hike, hobble, hop, hurry, hurtle, inch, jog, journey, jump, leap, limp, lollop, lope, lumber, lurch, march, meander, mince, mosey, nip, pad, parade, perambulate, plod, prance, promenade, prowl, race, ramble, roam, roll, romp, rove, run, rush, sashay, saunter, scamper, scoot, scram, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, skedaddle, skip, skitter, skulk, sleepwalk, slide, slink, slither, slog, slouch, sneak, somersault, speed, stagger, step, stomp, stray, streak, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swagger, sweep, swerve, swim, tack, tear, tiptoe, toddle, toil, totter, tour, traipse, tramp, travel, trek, troop, trot, trudge, trundle, vault, waddle, wade, walk, wander, weave, whiz, zigzag, zoom.
- lexical domain: Motions - verbs of walking, flying, swimming
- synonyms of creep: mouse / pussyfoot / sneak
- more generic word: walk = use one's feet to advance
- grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)
- syntax:
Syntactic formula Example for the syntactic formula there [Verb] [Theme, indefinite] There fluttered a flag (over the fort) [Agent - intentional control] [Verb] [Theme] The patriots waved the flag [Theme - concrete object] [Verb] A flag fluttered [Theme - concrete object] [Verb] [Locative Preposition] [Location] A flag fluttered over the fort | Bees are swarming in the garden [Locative Preposition] [Location] [Verb] [Theme] In the aquarium swam a striped fish | Over the fort fluttered a flag Verbs of Existence (with the same syntax): bob, bow, dance, drift, eddy, falter, flap, float, flutter, hover, jiggle, joggle, oscillate, pulsate, quake, quiver, revolve, rock, roil, rotate, shake, stir, sway, swirl, teeter, throb, totter, tremble, undulate, vacillate, vibrate, waft, wave, waver, wiggle, wobble, writhe.
- lexical domain: Motions - verbs of walking, flying, swimming
- more generic terms: diffuse / fan out / spread / spread out = move outward
- syntax:
- show submission or fear
Alternative definition of the verb creep
verb
- [intransitive] To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- synonym: crawl
- [intransitive] Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- [intransitive] To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- [intransitive] To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
Group
CREEP is a Brooklyn based Electronic music duo formed in 2009. The duo consists of Lauren Flax and Lauren Dillard. They initially signed to Young Turks, but later formed their own label, CREEP INTL.. CREEP are best known for their single "You" and their work with popular American duo Nina Sky on their debut album Echoes.
- genre: House music
- albums: "Days", "Days (Soul Clap remix)", "FACT Mix 213: CREEP", "Echoes"
Music
- "Creep" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. Radiohead released "Creep" as their debut single in 1992, and it later appeared on their first album, Pablo Honey. During its initial release, "Creep" was not a chart success. However, upon re-release in 1993, it became a worldwide hit. Attendees of Radiohead's early gigs often exhibited little interest in the band's other songs, causing the band to react against "Creep" and play it less often during the mid-to-late 1990s. In 1998, halfway through their OK Computer tour, the band dropped the song from set lists altogether. "Creep" was not played live again until 2001, but it has since reappeared several times on the band's live sets.
- also known as Creep (acoustic), Creep (radio edit)
- music by Radiohead, Albert Hammond, Mike Hazelwood
- lyrics by Radiohead & Thom Yorke
- award:
- "Creep" is the lead single by American girl group TLC from their second album, CrazySexyCool. The song became their first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and remained there for four weeks. It was nominated for two Grammy Awards at the 1996 Grammy Awards, winning the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. It was the third most successful single of 1995, finishing behind their other successful hit, "Waterfalls", on the 1995 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Charts.
- music by Dallas Austin
- award:
- Grammy Award for Best R&B Song nomination for Dallas Austin
- Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Song nomination for TLC
- Billboard Music Award for Top Hot 100 Song nomination for TLC
- Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Song, received by TLC
- "Creep" is a song by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, appearing as the seventh track off the band's debut album, Core and later released as a single.
- music by Robert DeLeo
- lyrics by Scott Weiland & Robert DeLeo
- "Creep" is a 1992 single album by Radiohead.
- also known as Creep (Black Session EP)
- released on (23 years ago)
- "Creep" is the fourth and final single by rap duo Mobb Deep, from their album Blood Money. The song features 50 Cent but the video accompanied with it was made and wasn't released. The B-side of the single is "It's Alright", featuring Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent.
- "CREEP" is a cataloged instance, composition.
- music by Mark E. Smith, Paul Hanley, Craig Scanlon, Steve Hanley, Brix Smith
- "Creep" is a 1993 single album by Stone Temple Pilots.
- genres: Grunge, Alternative rock
- released on (22 years ago)
- "Creep" is a musical single of Lambretta.
- released on (14 years ago)
- "Creep" is a 1994 single by TLC.
- genres: Hip hop soul, Contemporary R&B
- released on (20 years ago)
- "Creep" is a musical single of Glee Cast.
- released on
- "Creep" is a 2012 single album by deadmau5.
- released in
- "Creep" is a musical single of Postmodern Jukebox.
- released on
Films
- "Creep" is a 2004 independent British horror film written and directed by Christopher Smith, about a woman locked in overnight on the London Underground who finds herself being stalked by a hideously deformed killer living in the sewers below. The film was first shown at the Frankfurt Fantasy Filmfest in Germany on 10 August 2004.
- also known as 0:34
- countries: United Kingdom, Germany
- languages: English Language, German Language
- producers: Jason Newmark & Julie Baines
- executive producer: Robert Jones
- production design by John Frankish
- art direction by Matthew Gray, Ellen Latz, Ashley Winter
- written by Christopher Smith
- starring:
- Franka Potente as Kate
- Ken Campbell as Arthur
- Sean Harris as Craig
- Vas Blackwood as George
- Joe Anderson as Male Model
- Jeremy Sheffield as Guy
- Kathryn Gilfeather as Girl
- Grant Ibbs as Man
- Paul Rattray as Jimmy
- Kelly Scott as Mandy
- Sean De Vrind as Friend
- casting by Emma Style
- cinematography by Danny Cohen
- edited by Kate Evans
- music by Startled Insects
- costume design by Phoebe De Gaye
- set decoration by Emma Field-Rayner
- locations: Down Street tube station, London
- genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- tagline: Your journey terminates here.
- rating: R (USA)
- released on (11 years ago)
- "Creep" is a 2014 comedy horror film directed by Patrick Brice, based on a script written by Brice and Mark Duplass. The movie, which is Brice's directorial debut, had its world premiere on March 8, 2014 at South by Southwest and stars Brice as a man that answers a cryptic Craigslist ad.
- also known as Peachfuzz
- country: United States of America
- language: English Language
- director: Patrick Kack-Brice
- producers: Jason Blum & Mark Duplass
- production design by Lynsay Richardson
- starring:
- Patrick Kack-Brice as Aaron
- Mark Duplass as Josef
- edited by Christopher Donlon
- music by Kyle Field, Eric Andrew Kuhn, Sonny Smith
- genres: Romance Film, Horror comedy, Mystery, Drama
- released on
- "Creep": Murder runs in the family bloodline, and the only hope to stop a brother and sister who share an insatiable appetite for killing lies in a father-and-daughter police team in this blood-spattered effort from low-budget horror legend.
- country: United States of America
- language: English Language
- director: Tim Ritter
- starring:
- genres: Slasher, Horror, B movie
- released in (20 years ago)
Miscellanea
Creep: In materials science, creep is the tendency of a solid material to move slowly or deform permanently under the influence of mechanical stresses. It can occur as a result of long-term exposure to high levels of stress that are still below the yield strength of the material. Creep is more severe in materials that are subjected to heat for long periods, and generally increases as they near their melting point.
- also known as Creepová deformace, 蠕变
Phrases with Creep
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Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Creep
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Structural Geology (2016)
by Haakon Fossen
Creep is a fairly general term used for low-strain-rate deformations. Hence...
Plastic creep is what we are interested in here, and in the current context it is defined as follows: Creep is the plastic deformation of a material that is subjected to a ...
Handbook of Physical Testing of Paper (2001)
by Richard E. Mark, Jens Borch
Primary creep is the response of the box to the initial period of loading. The deformation rate is rapid at the onset of load application but decreases as the box settles under the load. Secondary creep is a stable phase of continuous deformation ...
Stress Analysis for Creep (2013)
by J.T. Boyle, J. Spence
The principal failure mode due to creep is that of blade rupture", although there is an obvious need to maintain critical dimensions such as the clearance between rotor blades and casing.
Characterization and Modeling to Control Sintered Ceramic Microstructures and Properties (2012)
Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 2004, Ceramic Transactions by C. DiAntonio
Creep is a lactor in sinter fomiing; however, because creep is ...
Project Management 2.0 (2014)
Leveraging Tools, Distributed Collaboration, and Metrics for Project Success by Harold Kerzner
Scope creep is the continuous enhancement of the project's requirements as the project's deliverables are being developed. Scope creep is...
IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials (2010)
Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials, Bochum, Germany, September 22-26, 2008 by Klaus Hackl
Solution-precipitation creep is a deformation process typical for high temperatures and moderate stresses whereby 0.4 of the melting temperature and 10−7 of the shear modulus are threshold values for its initiation [21]. The process has a ...
Fundamentals of Ceramics (2002)
by Michel Barsoum, M.W Barsoum
Creep is the slow and continuous deformation of a solid with time that only occurs at higher temperatures, that is,
Implantable Devices: Design, Manufacturing, and Malfunction, An Issue of Cardiac Electrophysiology Clinics, (2014)
by Kenneth A. Ellenbogen
Creep In materials science, creep is the spontaneous increase in strain (change in dimension ...
End-to-End Game Development (2012)
Creating Independent Serious Games and Simulations from Start to Finish by Nick Iuppa, Terry Borst
“Feature creep is a big problem in software development and can be the number one reason for delayed deadlines,” Adrian Wright (founder of Max Gaming Technologies) notes. Feature creep is when features keep getting added to a project ...
65th Conference on Glass Problems (2009)
A Collection of Papers Presented at the 65th Conference on Glass Problems, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH, October 19-20, 2004, Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, Volume 26, Number 1 by Charles H. Drummond, III
Creep is the response of a refractory material to an applied stress, it is plotted in a number of ways, however the most...
Effective Project Management (2013)
Traditional, Agile, Extreme by Robert K. Wysocki
Scope creep is the term that has come to mean any change in the project that was not in the original plan. Change is constant. To expect otherwise is simply unrealistic. Changes occur for several reasons that have nothing to do with the ability ...
Selected (2010)
Why some people lead, why others follow, and why it matters by Anjana Ahuja, Mark van Vugt
Leadership creep is the phenomenon behind every celebrity-endorsed clothing line.
A third reason for leadership creep is that some of the attributes that make people better warriors or more natural diplomats are generic traits that transcend ...
Transparency and Proportionality in the Schengen Information System and Border Control Co-Operation (2008)
by Stephen Kabera Karanja
Function creep means data collected for one purpose, being applied to other purposes.
Materials Science for Dentistry (2009)
by B W Darvell
Creep is the phenomenon whereby at loads well below the yield point continuous plastic deformation occurs (1§11). The process is very similar to that depicted for Maxwell-type behaviour when the rheological properties of more fluid ...
Composite Materials, 6th Japan/US Conference (1993)
by Kier M. Finlayson, Kenton R. Osborn, Waleed Shalaby
Introduction Creep is a phenomenon in materials that deform continuously under a constant stress. This material behavior is often more pronounced at high stresses and temperatures. In advanced fiber composites, the fiber is usually regarded ...
Encyclopedia of PVC, Second Edition (1992)
Compounding Processes, Product Design, and Specifications - Volume 3 of 4 (Print) by Leonard I. Nass
This reduces the extent and tenacity of the network of crystallites, which greatly reduces the creep strength of the material. Processing at too high a temperature causes degradation, dehydrochlorination , and the formation of double bonds, ...
A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (2013)
by Anthony G. Atkins, Tony Atkins, Marcel Escudier
creep The deformation, which increases with time, of a material or structure under constant load (strictly constant stress). A typical creep ...
Polymer Science Dictionary (2017)
by Mark Alger
creep The progressively increasing strain over a period of time of a viscoelastic material when subject to a continuously applied stress. Together with stress relaxation and dynamic mechanical behaviour, the most ...
Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design (1988)
Volume 28 - Lactic Acid to Magnesium Supply-Demand Relationships by John J. McKetta Jr
the designer must take into account the low creep resistance of the material. This characteristic is a negligible factor in the design process for most materials at normal atmospheric temperatures. Since it is a major ...
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"Creep" - Radiohead
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Radiohead - Creep Meaning
Radiohead - Creep - Meaning = The narrator is trying to drive away his girlfriend before she dumps him * See all the videos at ...
CREEP Meaning
Video shows what CREEP means. The Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.. CREEP ...
Creep Meaning
Video shows what creep means. To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.. Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.. To move ...
Creep Explanation
Public Speaking - Avoid jargon creep
Creep into Meaning
Video shows what creep into means. To enter something or somewhere by creeping.. To enter surreptitiously.. Creep into Meaning. How to pronounce, definition ...
ESL Self-Study Lesson for English learners - Lesson 206 - creep, embroider
Contents: Watch & Listen, Listen & Repeat, Multiple choice questions, Questions & Answers SCRIPT The plant has crept up the wall. The cat is creeping up to ...
ESL creep TMX
Re verb Creep
Banda Re.verb ( formacao antiga ) tocando na UFES em 2008.
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Quotes about Creep
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls. (Jane Goodall)
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Scrabble value of C3R1E1E1P3
The value of this 5-letter word is 9 points. It is included in the first and second editions of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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