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Crope
(gcide) | Creep \Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. Crept (kr[e^]pt) (Crope
(kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.]
[OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G.
kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. Cripple,
Crouch.]
1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the
belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the
hands and knees; to crawl.
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Ye that walk
The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep.
--Milton.
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2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from
unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
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The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail,
Unwillingly to school. --Shak.
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Like a guilty thing, I creep. --Tennyson.
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3. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move
imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate
itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
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The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of
argument. --Locke.
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Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and
lead captive silly women. --2. Tim. iii.
6.
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4. To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the
collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep
in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
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5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility;
to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
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To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak.
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6. To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some
other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by
tendrils, along its length. "Creeping vines." --Dryden.
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7. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of
the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See
Crawl, v. i., 4.
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8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a
submarine cable.
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micropenis
(encz) | micropenis, n: |
Acropetal
(gcide) | Acropetal \A*crop"e*tal\, a. [Gr. 'a`kros summit + L. petere to
seek.] (Bot.)
Developing from below towards the apex, or from the
circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of
certain inflorescence.
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acropetal inflorescence
(gcide) | Indeterminate \In`de*ter"mi*nate\, a. [L. indeterminatus.]
Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not
precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. --Paley.
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Indeterminate analysis (Math.), that branch of analysis
which has for its object the solution of indeterminate
problems.
Indeterminate coefficients (Math.), coefficients
arbitrarily assumed for convenience of calculation, or to
facilitate some artifice of analysis. Their values are
subsequently determined.
Indeterminate equation (Math.), an equation in which the
unknown quantities admit of an infinite number of values,
or sets of values. A group of equations is indeterminate
when it contains more unknown quantities than there are
equations.
Indeterminate inflorescence (Bot.), a mode of inflorescence
in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the
terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the
stem indefinitely; -- called also {acropetal
inflorescence}, botryose inflorescence, {centripetal
inflorescence}, and indefinite inflorescence. --Gray.
Indeterminate problem (Math.), a problem which admits of an
infinite number of solutions, or one in which there are
fewer imposed conditions than there are unknown or
required results.
Indeterminate quantity (Math.), a quantity which has no
fixed value, but which may be varied in accordance with
any proposed condition.
Indeterminate series (Math.), a series whose terms proceed
by the powers of an indeterminate quantity, sometimes also
with indeterminate exponents, or indeterminate
coefficients. -- In`de*ter"mi*nate*ly adv. --
In`de*ter"mi*nate*ness, n.
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Crop-ear
(gcide) | Crop-ear \Crop"-ear`\ (kr?p"?r`), n.
A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
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Crop-eared
(gcide) | Crop-eared \Crop"-eared`\ (kr?p"?rd`), a.
Having the ears cropped.
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Macropetalous
(gcide) | Macropetalous \Mac`ro*pet"al*ous\, a. [Macro- + petal.] (Bot.)
Having long or large petals.
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Micropegmatite
(gcide) | Micropegmatite \Mi`cro*peg"ma*tite\, n. [Micro- + pegmatite.]
(Min.)
A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a
graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit"ic, a.
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Micropegmatitic
(gcide) | Micropegmatite \Mi`cro*peg"ma*tite\, n. [Micro- + pegmatite.]
(Min.)
A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a
graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit"ic, a.
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acropetal
(wn) | acropetal
adj 1: of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession
from base to apex [ant: basipetal] |
micropenis
(wn) | micropenis
n 1: an abnormally small penis [syn: micropenis,
microphallus] |
microperation
(foldoc) | microperation
An elementary operation performed on data stored
in registers or in memory. Microperations are classified
as transfer, arithmetic, logic, or shift/rotate.
[Relationship with microcode?]
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