Creep vs. Slither
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
Slitherverb
(intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side.
Slitherverb
(intransitive) To slide
Slitheradjective
(archaic) slithery; slippery
Slithernoun
A limestone rubble.
Slithernoun
(Used mistakenly) A sliver.
Slitherverb
To slide; to glide.
Slitherverb
to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly;
