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USF Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
crawl
Could you please tell me what these means?
"The traffic was crawling along."
"The floor was crawling with ants."
"Robots that crawl the net searching out e-mail addresses for junk mailing"
"The traffic was crawling along."
"The floor was crawling with ants."
"Robots that crawl the net searching out e-mail addresses for junk mailing"
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1. going slow 2. covered with ants 3.
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- going slow 2.
- covered with ants 3.
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Crawl generally means to move slowlyin the manner of an insect on the ground.
1. The traffic was moving slowly.
2. This is an example of a figure of speech called a transferred epithet, where some action or qualifier is assigned to a related item. In this case, the floor doesn't crawl, but it is covered in a large number of ants crawling on it.
3. Crawl here, means to start with a giv
1. The traffic was moving slowly.
2. This is an example of a figure of speech called a transferred epithet, where some action or qualifier is assigned to a related item. In this case, the floor doesn't crawl, but it is covered in a large number of ants crawling on it.
3. Crawl here, means to start with a giv
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Thank you both. Those were very good explanation.
UltimatePedant2. This is an example of a figure of speech called a transferred epithet, where some action or qualifier is assigned to a related item. In this case, the floor doesn't crawl, but it is covered in a large number of ants crawling on it.Yes, that was a problematic thing in my mind, and I was wondered
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'I was wondering if I could use this style in similar situations, but not with insects. Like "The field was crawling with people".'
Yes, you can.
Yes, you can.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
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UltimatePedant3. Crawl here, means to start with a given internet document, get information of interest from it and find all the links to other documents on it. Systematically these linked documents, and documents linked to them, and so on, are all explored until all the links are exhausted (or a limit is reached).Thanks, UP; I didn't know that.
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