Creep In

  

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Creep In

Definition: Creep In

Creep In

Verb

1. Enter surreptitiously; "He sneaked in under cover of darkness"; "In this essay, the author's personal feelings creep in".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Creep In

Synonym: sneak in (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Creep In

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ingress

Verb: have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Creep In

Specialty definitions using "creep in": creep strength. (references)
Etymologies containing "creep in": Irreptitious. (references)

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Modern Usage: Creep In

DomainUsage

Lyrics

I looked at the clock when you creep in (My Favorite Mistake; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

Sunday morning creep in like a nun. (Lady Madonna; performing artist: The Beatles)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Creep In

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

creep in

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Creep In

Language Translations for "creep in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

вмъквам се (inch, steal in). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vkrádat se. (various references)

   

Danish

  

spaendingudligning ved krybning i statisk ubestemte konstruktioner (redistribution of stress due to creep in indeterminate structures), krybning i kontrollerede komplekse atmosferen (creep in controlled complex atmospheres). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kruip in beheerste complexe atmosferen (creep in controlled complex atmospheres), herverdeling van spanningen bij kruip in onbepaalde constructies (redistribution of stress due to creep in indeterminate structures). (various references)

   

French

  

redistribution des tensions dues au fluage dans des constructions hyperstatiques (redistribution of stress due to creep in indeterminate structures), fluage en atmosphères complexes contrôlées (creep in controlled complex atmospheres). (various references)

   

German

  

sich einschleichen (slip in, sneak in, steal in), hineinschleichen (slip in), hineinkriechen (slip in), hereinschleichen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ερπυσμός σε ελεγχόμενο σύνθετο περιβάλλον (creep in controlled complex atmospheres), ανακατανομή των τάσεων που οφείλονται σε ερπυσμό σε στατικά αόριστες κατασκευές (redistribution of stress due to creep in indeterminate structures). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bebújik (to get through, to slip into, to slip on). (various references)

   

Italian

  

scorrimento in atmosfere complesse controllate (creep in controlled complex atmospheres), ridistribuzione delle tensioni dovute allo scorrimento nelle strutture staticamente indeterminate (redistribution of stress due to creep in indeterminate structures). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

忍び込む (to creep in, to steal in). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しのび"む (to creep in, to steal in). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eepcray inay

   

Portuguese

  

deformação plástica em atmosferas complexas controladas (creep in controlled complex atmospheres). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

закрасться, заползать, проскочить (slip past). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uvući se (insinuate, slip in, steal in), potkradati (steal), dopuzati (crawl in, crawl over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

redistribución de la tensión por fluencia en construcciones estáticamente endeterminadas (redistribution of stress due to creep in indeterminate structures). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

krypa in (crawl in, nestle), insmyga. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Creep In

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

insinuans, insinuate. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Creep In

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-p-r"

-1 letter: piecer, pierce, pincer, prince, recipe, repine.

-2 letters: creep, crepe, cripe, nicer, niece, pence, piece, preen, price, repin, ripen.

-3 letters: cepe, cere, cine, cire, epic, erne, neep, nice, peen, peer, pein, peri, pice, pier, pine, pirn, pree, rein, rice, ripe.

-4 letters: cee, cep, ere, ern, ice, ire, nee, nip, pec, pee, pen, per, pic, pie.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-p-r"
 

+1 letter: creeping, encipher, penciler, prentice, terpenic.

 

+2 letters: crispened, enciphers, epicenter, epicurean, intercept, pencilers, percaline, phrenetic, preceding, prenticed, prentices, prescient, princelet, princesse, prurience, reception, recipient, reinspect.

 

+3 letters: apprentice, compeering, creepiness, enciphered, encipherer, epicenters, epicentral, epicureans, excerpting, excerption, experience, hyperpneic, imprudence, intercepts, interspace, necropsied, necropsies, nonreceipt, percalines, perceiving, percentile, perception, percipient, perfecting, perfection, pernickety, pertinence, pertinency, pickeering, pincerlike, precenting, precessing, precession, prefinance, prelecting, prelection, prescience, prescinded, presidency, princelets, princelier, princesses, probenecid, proceeding, prominence, providence, pruriences, putrescine, receipting, receptions, recipients, reinspects, respecting, sceptering, underprice.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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