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Word: creep
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Meaning:
Noun:
- 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
- agriculture A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- informal|pejorative A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.
- informal|pejorative An annoying irritating person
- materials science An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- 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.
- geology The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
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Proper noun:
- derogatory The Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
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Verb:
- intransitive Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- intransitive To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- intransitive To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- intransitive To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
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