crawler
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From crawl (“to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) + -er.
Noun[edit]
crawler (plural crawlers)
- A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
- (sports) A crawl swimmer.
- A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
- A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.
- A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
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Etymology 2[edit]
From crawl (“to act in a servile manner”) + -er.
From the Australian convict period (1788-1850); a prisoner who was purposely and extensively abused by an overseer (also a convict) and thereby driven to escape but who, finding it impossible to survive in the Australian bush, surrenders to this overseer, who would then have his penal term reduced. The particular crawler was picked for his weak personality and might escape and return a number of times increasing his own penal term each time. According to James Tucker, some convict overseers had their sentences extensively reduced using this odious practice. Source-James Tucker's 1845 novel Ralph Rashleigh.
Noun[edit]
crawler (plural crawlers)
- (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
- (Britain, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Verb[edit]
crawler
- (transitive, intransitive) to swim using the crawl stroke
- (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to spider
Conjugation[edit]
infinitive | simple | crawler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | crawlant /kʁo.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | crawlé /kʁo.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | crawle /kʁol/ |
crawles /kʁol/ |
crawle /kʁol/ |
crawlons /kʁo.lɔ̃/ |
crawlez /kʁo.le/ |
crawlent /kʁol/ |
imperfect | crawlais /kʁo.lɛ/ |
crawlais /kʁo.lɛ/ |
crawlait /kʁo.lɛ/ |
crawlions /kʁo.ljɔ̃/ |
crawliez /kʁo.lje/ |
crawlaient /kʁo.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | crawlai /kʁo.le/ |
crawlas /kʁo.la/ |
crawla /kʁo.la/ |
crawlâmes /kʁo.lam/ |
crawlâtes /kʁo.lat/ |
crawlèrent /kʁo.lɛʁ/ | |
future | crawlerai /kʁol.ʁe/ |
crawleras /kʁol.ʁa/ |
crawlera /kʁol.ʁa/ |
crawlerons /kʁol.ʁɔ̃/ |
crawlerez /kʁol.ʁe/ |
crawleront /kʁol.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | crawlerais /kʁol.ʁɛ/ |
crawlerais /kʁol.ʁɛ/ |
crawlerait /kʁol.ʁɛ/ |
crawlerions /kʁo.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
crawleriez /kʁo.lə.ʁje/ |
crawleraient /kʁol.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | crawle /kʁol/ |
crawles /kʁol/ |
crawle /kʁol/ |
crawlions /kʁo.ljɔ̃/ |
crawliez /kʁo.lje/ |
crawlent /kʁol/ |
imperfect2 | crawlasse /kʁo.las/ |
crawlasses /kʁo.las/ |
crawlât /kʁo.la/ |
crawlassions /kʁo.la.sjɔ̃/ |
crawlassiez /kʁo.la.sje/ |
crawlassent /kʁo.las/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | crawle /kʁol/ |
— | crawlons /kʁo.lɔ̃/ |
crawlez /kʁo.le/ |
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compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading[edit]
- “crawler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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