Creep vs. Cream

Creepverb

(intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.

Creepverb

(intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.

Creepverb

(intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.

Creepverb

(intransitive) To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.

Creepverb

To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.

Creepverb

To slip, or to become slightly displaced.

Creepverb

To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.

Creepverb

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.

Creepverb

To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

Creepnoun

The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)

Creepnoun

A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.

Creepnoun

A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something

Creepnoun

The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.

Creepnoun

(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.

Creepnoun

(materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.

Creepnoun

(geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.

Creepnoun

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Creepnoun

A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.

Creepnoun

(agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.

Creepverb

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.

Creepverb

To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.

Creepverb

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.

Creepverb

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.

Creepverb

To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

Creepverb

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.

Creepverb

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.

Creepverb

To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.

Creepnoun

The act or process of creeping.

Creepnoun

A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.

Creepnoun

A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.

Creepnoun

someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Creepnoun

a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

Creepnoun

a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

Creepnoun

a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body);

Creepverb

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground;

Creepverb

to go stealthily or furtively;

Creepverb

grow in such a way as to cover (a building, for example);

Creepverb

show submission or fear

Creepverb

move slowly and carefully in order to avoid being heard or noticed

Creepverb

(of a thing) move very slowly and inexorably

Creepverb

(of a plant) grow along the ground or other surface by means of extending stems or branches

Creepverb

(of a plastic solid) undergo gradual deformation under stress.

Creepverb

(of a negative characteristic or fact) occur or develop gradually and almost imperceptibly

Creepverb

increase slowly but steadily in number or amount

Creepnoun

a detestable person

Creepnoun

a person who behaves obsequiously in the hope of advancement.

Creepnoun

slow steady movement, especially when imperceptible

Creepnoun

the tendency of a car with automatic transmission to move when in gear without the accelerator being pressed

Creepnoun

the gradual downward movement of disintegrated rock or soil due to gravity

Creepnoun

the gradual deformation of a plastic solid under stress

Creepnoun

gradual bulging of the floor of a mine owing to pressure on the pillars

Creepnoun

an opening in a hedge or wall for an animal to pass through

Creepnoun

a feeding enclosure for young animals, with a long, narrow entrance

Creepnoun

solid food given to young farm animals in order to wean them

Creamnoun

The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.

Creamnoun

The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.

Creamnoun

The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).

Creamnoun

A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.

Creamnoun

(informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.

Creamnoun

(figuratively) The best part of something.

Creamnoun

(medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)

Creamnoun

Semen.

Creamnoun

(obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.

Creamadjective

Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

Creamverb

To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.

Creamverb

To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.

Creamverb

(slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.

Creamverb

To ejaculate used of either gender.

Creamverb

To ejaculate in (clothing).

Creamverb

To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.

Creamverb

(transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

Creamverb

To take off the best or choicest part of.

Creamverb

(transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.

Creamnoun

The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.

Creamnoun

The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.

Creamnoun

A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

Creamnoun

A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.

Creamnoun

The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.

Creamverb

To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.

Creamverb

To take off the best or choicest part of.

Creamverb

To furnish with, or as with, cream.

Creamverb

To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.

Creamnoun

the best people or things in a group;

Creamnoun

the part of milk containing the butterfat

Creamnoun

toiletry consisting of any of various substances resembling cream that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin

Creamverb

make creamy by beating;

Creamverb

put on cream, as on one's face or body;

Creamverb

remove from the surface;

Creamverb

add cream to one's coffee, for example

Cream

Cream is a dairy product composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, the fat, which is less dense, eventually rises to the top.