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Crawling vs Creeping - What's the difference?

crawling | creeping |

As verbs the difference between crawling and creeping

is that crawling is present participle of lang=en while creeping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between crawling and creeping

is that crawling is the motion of something that crawls while creeping is the act of something that creeps.

crawling

English

(wikipedia crawling)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that crawls.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
    • Miss Brass devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

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    creeping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that creeps.
  • * 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
    • It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite