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Definition: Crawler |
CrawlerNoun1. A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage. 2. A person who crawls or creeps along the ground. 3. Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crawler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1923. (references) |
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Computing | Crawler robot. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Mining | One of a pair of an endless chain of plates driven by sprockets and used instead of wheels, by certain power shovels, tractors, bulldozers, drilling machines, etc., as a means of propulsion. Also any machinemounted on such tracks. (references) |
Transportation | Of a vehicle moved by a pair of endless, articulated belts, i. e. tracks, (driven by sprocket wheels)which steer it by their differential speed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Historically nearly all crawlers were equipped with blades called bulldozers, and used for construction and earthmoving projects. However, crawlers are slowly gaining popularity for farm use.
The use of tracks allows the exertion of very low ground pressure, despite heavy weight. This makes them very well suited for applications on soft ground and mud since they do not sink in soft ground like wheels do; this is driving their increased presence on farms.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crawler."
Synonyms: CrawlerSynonyms: angleworm (n), creeper (n), dew worm (n), earthworm (n), fishing worm (n), fishworm (n), lackey (n), nightcrawler (n), nightwalker (n), red worm (n), sycophant (n), toady (n), wiggler (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Crawler |
| Specialty definitions using "crawler": brazer, BRAZER, ASSEMBLER ♦ catskinner, coal-cutting-machine operator, CUTTER OPERATOR, cutting-machine operator ♦ FOUNDATION-DRILL OPERATOR ♦ HYDRAULIC PRESS OPERATOR ♦ Joy extensible conveyor, Joy walking miner ♦ Lycos ♦ master pin, MECHANIC, ENDLESS TRACK VEHICLE, mobile crane ♦ oilfield winch ♦ portable bucket loader, portable loader ♦ rotary excavator ♦ support roller ♦ torch brazer, track frame, track pin, track roller, track wheel, tracklaying tractor, trackless tunneling, tractor drills, trench excavator, trenching machine ♦ undercutter ♦ walking dragline. (references) |
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Business | Current demand for paddy rice harvesters exceeds the supply and crawler type head-feed rice harvester is a best selling product. (references) | |
As a manufacturer, Hyundai has distribution rights to sell rough terrain cranes and crawler cranes manufactured under license by Kobelco (Japan). (references) | ||
The demand for truck cranes among the wheel type cranes, and crawler type cranes in the Korean crane industry is particularly high. Since 1990, Korea has been importing large capacity cranes to meet the demand for large-scale construction projects. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Crawler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crawler" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crawler": crawler lane ♦ pub crawler. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crawler": crawler-crane, crawler-cranes. | |
Ending with "crawler": kerb-crawler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
web crawler | 2,668 | crawler divx | 15 |
tab crawler | 276 | crawler jeep rock | 15 |
rock crawler | 173 | web crawler search engine | 15 |
crawler porn | 172 | crawler night raising | 15 |
crawler | 166 | crawler job | 14 |
night crawler | 158 | crawler lyrics | 13 |
pantie hose crawler | 127 | crawler mr | 13 |
meta crawler | 95 | crawler loader | 12 |
monster crawler | 81 | crawler dozers | 11 |
creepy crawler | 62 | ftp crawler | 11 |
registry crawler | 39 | crawler dumper | 11 |
crawler marlin | 36 | crawler mega | 11 |
crawler tractor | 35 | crawler shoes | 11 |
crawler crane | 29 | crawler rim rock | 11 |
crawler rock wheels | 26 | kreepy crawler | 10 |
crawler man night x | 19 | cleaner crawler creepy pool | 9 |
john deere crawler | 19 | club crawler | 9 |
crawler oliver | 16 | crawler page | 9 |
law crawler | 16 | meta crawler.com | 9 |
personal web crawler | 15 | crawler rock toyota | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "crawler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veturë e ngadaltë, servil (bootlicker, creeping, fawning, obsequious, servile, subservient, sycophantic, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady), puthador (groveler, groveller, minion, servile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | същество което лази, угодник, гъсеничен трактор (caterpillar), гъсеничен (caterpillar, larval), плувец на кроул. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 履带牵引装置. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kraulař. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | med baelter (caterpillar, tracked, track-laying), larvebaand (caterpillar track, track), baelte- (caterpillar, tracked, track-laying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rupstrekker (caterpillar, full track, tracked, track-layer, track-laying), rupsband (caterpillar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | telaketju- (caterpillar, tracked, track-laying), tela- (caterpillar, tracked, track-laying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chenille, chenillé, robot de recherche, chenilles. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kriechtier (critter, reptile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έρπων (reptile), ερπύστρια (caterpillar), ερπυστριοφόρος (caterpillar, tracked, track-laying), ερπετό (reptile, reptilian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utasra vadászó taxi, tipegő (jumper), játszóruha (jumper, playsuit, rompers), csúszómászó (abject, creeping, groveller, repent, reptant, reptile, reptilian, snake, sneaky, spaniel, sycophantic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cingolo (caterpillar track, track), cingolato (caterpillar, full track, tracked, track-layer, track-laying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 크롤러. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | snaueyder (creeper), fer thoanney, beishteig (coil, creepy-crawly, worm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awlercray com rasto contínuo (caterpillar, tracked, track-laying), chaleira (kettle, toady), robô de pesquisa, relativo a réptil, rasto (after-image, clewline, spoor), réptil (reptile, reptilian), piolho (cootie, louse), nadador (swimmer). (various references) tractor pe şenile, târâtoare (reptile), reptilã, om servil, linguşitor (adulatory, bootlicker, cajoler, cajoling, encomiast, fawning, flatterer, flattering, flunkey, gratifying, ingratiating, oilily, reptile, servile, sleek, smoothie, spaniel, supple, supply, sycophant, toad, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, yes man), hainuţã largã de toatã ziua. (various references) гусеничный ход (caterpillar), гусеничный трактор (caterpillar, caterpillar tractor), медленно едущий извозчик. (various references) onaj koji puzi, koji puzi (groveling). (various references) tractor (agrimotor, tractor), oruga (caterpillar, rocket, track), de tractor. (various references) crawlare, stelbandtraktor (caterpillar, full track, tracked, track-layer, track-laying), krypare (creeper, creeping things), fjaskig typ, bandtraktor (caterpillar). (various references) ผู้ที่ขับรถตระเวนหาหญิงโสเ "ี (kerb crawler). (various references) yaltakçı (adulatory, bootlicker, creep, creeper, cringing, greaser, groveler, groveller, lickspittle, obsequious, oily, servile, slime, slimy, smarmy, wheedling), yağcı (apple polisher, buttery, deadhead, flatterer, greaser, greasy, gushing, gushy, lickspittle, loader, obsequious, oily, oleaginous, reptilian, silky, sleek, slime, soapy, suck, sucker, toady), sürünen şey, sümüklüböcek (helix, slug, snail), müşteri bulmak için yavaş ilerleyen taksi, krol yüzücü, bebek tulumu (bunting, creepers), böcek (beetle, bug, insect, lobster). (various references) гусенічний трактор, низькопоклонник (spaniel), підлабузник (back scratcher, bootlicker, camp follower, earthworm, flunkey, groveller, onhanger, reptile, sneak, zany), повзуча рослина (creeper, groundling, parasite, vine), плазун (creeper, reptile, reptilian, worm). (various references) vận động viên bơi trườn kẻ lu"n cúi đê tiện, người đi kéo lê vận động viên bơi crôn, người đi chậm rề rề. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crawler": crawlers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crawler": scrawler. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crawler": scrawlers. (additional references) | |
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"Crawler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cawle, Craweley, Crawle, crowler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "crawler" (pronounced 'Crawl"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-r-r-w" | |
-1 letter: carrel, clawer. | |
-2 letters: carer, carle, clear, crawl, lacer, racer, rawer, waler. | |
-3 letters: acre, alec, care, carl, carr, claw, clew, craw, crew, earl, lace, lear, race, rale, rare, real, rear, wale, ware, weal, wear. | |
-4 letters: ace, ale, arc, are, awe, awl, car, caw, cel, ear, era, err, lac, lar, law, lea, raw, rec, wae, war. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: crawlers, crawlier, scrawler. | |
+2 letters: scrawlers, scrawlier. | |
+3 letters: racewalker, watercolor. | |
+4 letters: cartwheeler, crackleware, lacquerware, lacquerwork, racewalkers, trackwalker, watercolors, watercooler. | |
+5 letters: cartwheelers, cracklewares, lacquerwares, lacquerworks, trackwalkers, watercoolers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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