Crawl vs Grab - What's the difference?
crawl | grab |
To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
* Grew
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
To act in a servile manner.
* Shakespeare
See crawl with.
To feel a ing sensation.
To swim using the crawl stroke.
To move over an area on hands and knees.
To visit while becoming inebriated.
To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops
A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick
(television, film) A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
* , chapter=7
, title= To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
To restrain someone; to arrest.
To grip the attention; to enthrall.
(informal) To quickly collect or retrieve.
* 1987 James Grady Just a Shot Away , Bantam, p117
* 1999 Jillian Dagg, Racing Hearts, Thomas Bouregy & Co., p105
* 2009 Mike Taylor, A Thousand Sleeps, Tate Publishing, p216
(informal) To consume something quickly.
To take the opportunity of.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 19, author=Paul Fletcher, work=BBC Sport
, title= a sudden snatch (for something)
* 1931 Harold M. Sherman, "The Baseball Clown," Boys' Life, Vol. 21, No. 4 (April 1931), Boy Scouts of America, p47
* 2003 J Davey, Six Years of Darkness, Trafford Publishing, p66
a mechanical device that grabs or clutches
# a device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven
(media) a soundbite
In intransitive terms the difference between crawl and grab
is that crawl is to visit while becoming inebriated while grab is to make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).In transitive terms the difference between crawl and grab
is that crawl is to visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching while grab is to grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.crawl
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crawlen, (m), ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
- hath crawled into the favour of the king
Derived terms
* crawlerDescendants
* German:Noun
(en noun)- The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.
Derived terms
* front crawl * pub crawl * urban crawlEtymology 2
Compare kraal.grab
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(grabb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
- "I'll just grab my jacket," said Manh-Hung.
- Hardly believing that Rafe actually planned to relax for a while, Kate nodded. "All right. Fine. I'll just go grab my purse."
- He looked at Albert and Ben, and then back to Nurse Allen. "I'll just grab my gear and be right back."
Blackpool 1-2 West Ham, passage=Both teams wasted good opportunities to score but it was the London side who did grab what proved to be the decisive third when the unmarked Vaz Te, a January signing from Barnsley, drilled the ball into the net from 12 yards.}}
Noun
(en noun)- The ball popped in and popped out, and when he made a grab for it on the ground he kicked it with his foot.
- He made a grab for me and I swung my handbag at him as hard as I could.