"creep" značenje u engleski leksikon

Množina: creeps

In civil and mechanical engineering, the property of a solid, typically a metal, under continuous stress that causes it to deform below its yield point (the point at which any elastic solid normally stretches without any increase in load or stress). Lead, tin, and zinc, for example, exhibit creep at ordinary temperatures, as seen in the movement of the lead sheeting on the roofs of old buildings.
Copper, iron, nickel, and their alloys also show creep at high temperatures.
1. A pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.
2. A slow longitudinal movement or deformation.
3. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric; SYN. weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spook, schmuck.
The time-dependent permanent deformation that occurs under stress; for most materials it is important only at elevated temperatures.

(Irregular preterit, past participle: crept).

Množina: creep fatigues

Množina: creep fatiques

Množina: creep feeds

Feed given to young animals isolated in a creep.

Množina: creep feeders

A feed trough accessible only by young animals and used especially to supply special or supplementary feed.

To advance stealthily or unnoticed:; SYN. sneak up.

Množina: creep-holes

Množina: creep-joints

Množina: creepages

Gradual movement; creep.

Množina: creepers

1. Any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb about on trees; SYN. tree creeper.
2. Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping.
Any small, short-legged passerine bird of the family Certhidae. They spiral with a mouselike movement up tree trunks, searching for insects and larvae with their thin, down-curved beaks.
The brown creeper Certhia familiaris is 12 cm/5 in long, brown above, white below, and is found across North America and Eurasia.