Creep vs Grip - What's the difference?
creep | grip |
To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
* John Locke
To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
* Shakespeare
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
(publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
(materials science) An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
(geology) The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
(informal, pejorative) An annoying irritating person
(informal, pejorative) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills or who induces psychosomatic facial itching.
(agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
To trench; to drain.
A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
A handle or other place to grip.
A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
(film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
A lot of something.
: Influenza, flu.
(archaic) A small travelling-bag.
Assistance; help or encouragement.
A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
(slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
(figurative) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
(dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
In intransitive terms the difference between creep and grip
is that creep is to make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction while grip is to do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.As a proper noun CREEP
is the Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.creep
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crepen, from (etyl) .Verb
- Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
- One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.
- He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
- Prices have been creeping up all year.
- Old age creeps upon us.
- the sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument
- The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.
- The quicksilver on a mirror may creep .
- a creeping sycophant
- to come as humbly as they used to creep
- The sight made my flesh creep .
Synonyms
* (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground) crawl * (grow across a surface rather than upwards) * (move slowly and quietly in a particular direction) * (make small gradual changes)Derived terms
* creep up on * creepy / creepy-crawly * give someone the creeps * creep someone outEtymology 2
From the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- Christmas creep'''. Feature '''creep'''. Instruction '''creep'''. Mission ' creep
- Stop following me, you creep !
Derived terms
* bracket creep * Christmas creep * feature creep * focus creep * function creep ((function creep)) * instruction creep ((instruction creep)) * mission creep ((mission creep)) * requirement creep ((requirement creep)) * scope creep * season creepAnagrams
* English irregular verbsgrip
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) grippan, from a (etyl) , whence English gripe. See also (l).Verb
(gripp)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
- By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls. It may have been that these fumes mounted to my head, and gave me courage not my own, but so it was that I lost something of the stifling fear that had gripped me, and could listen with more ease to what was going forward
Etymology 2
An amalgam of (etyl) (cognate with Swedish ''grepp ).Noun
(en noun)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip . Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
Etymology 3
From (etyl) grip, grippe, .Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- (Ray)