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crawling
(encz) | crawling,plížení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Crawling
(gcide) | Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled
(kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan. kravle, or
Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw.
kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to
scratch.]
1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
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A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling,
as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.
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2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous
manner.
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He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
--Arbuthnot.
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The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
--Byron.
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3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious
conduct.
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Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles.
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Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak.
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Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South.
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4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
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crawling
(wn) | crawling
n 1: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging
the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could
manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: crawl,
crawling, creep, creeping] |
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crawling
(encz) | crawling,plížení n: Zdeněk Brož |
crawling peg
(encz) | crawling peg, |
crawling with
(encz) | crawling with,... se hemžilo ... Zdeněk Brož |
crawling on the floor laughing guts out and having a heart attack
(czen) | Crawling On The Floor Laughing Guts Out And Having A Heart
Attack,COTFLGOHAHA[zkr.] |
crawling withpredicate overrun with swarming swarming withpredicate teeming teeming withpredicate
(gcide) | filled \filled\ adj.
1. containing as much or as many as is possible or normal;
as, filled to overflowing. Opposite of empty. [Narrower
terms: {abounding in(predicate), abounding
with(predicate), bristling with(predicate), full
of(predicate), overflowing, overflowing with(predicate),
rich in(predicate), rife with(predicate), thick
with(predicate)}; {brimful, brimful of(predicate),
brimfull, brimfull of(predicate), brimming, brimming
with(predicate)}; {chockablock(predicate),
chock-full(predicate), chockfull(predicate),
chockful(predicate), choke-full(predicate),
chuck-full(predicate), cram full}; congested, engorged;
{crawling with(predicate), overrun with, swarming,
swarming with(predicate), teeming, teeming
with(predicate)}; {flooded, inundated, swamped ; {glutted,
overfull}; {heavy with(predicate) ; {laden, loaded ;
overladen, overloaded ; {stuffed ; {stuffed; {well-lined
]
Syn: full.
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2. entirely of one substance with no holes inside. Opposite
of hollow.
Syn: solid.
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3. having appointments throughout the course of a period; --
of an appointment schedule; as, My calendar is filled for
the week. Opposite of unoccupied and free
Syn: occupied.
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Scrawling
(gcide) | Scrawl \Scrawl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scrawled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scrawling.] [Probably corrupted from scrabble.]
To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily
and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a
letter.
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His name, scrawled by himself. --Macaulay.
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crawling
(wn) | crawling
n 1: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging
the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could
manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: crawl,
crawling, creep, creeping] |
crawling horror
(foldoc) | crawling horror
Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept
obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers
at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes
that the thing described is not just an irritation but an
active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff
in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II
application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling
horror."
Compare WOMBAT.
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crawling horror
(jargon) | crawling horror
n.
Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by
forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or {
gonkulator}, but connotes that the thing described is not just an
irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. “Mostly we code new
stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big FORTRAN II application from
nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror....” Compare WOMBAT.
This usage is almost certainly derived from the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
Lovecraft may never have used the exact phrase “crawling horror” in his
writings, but one of the fearsome Elder Gods that he wrote extensively
about was Nyarlethotep, who had as an epithet “The Crawling Chaos”.
Certainly the extreme, even melodramatic horror of his characters at the
weird monsters they encounter, even to the point of going insane with fear,
is what hackers are referring to with this phrase when they use it for
horribly bad code. Compare cthulhic.
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