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ramper — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • crawl verb To move on hands and knees, or drag the body low along a surface.
  • creep verb To move slowly, quietly, or close to the ground.
  • fawn noun A young deer, usually under a year old.
  • ramp noun A sloped surface connecting two different levels, allowing movement between them without steps.
  • worm noun A long, thin, legless invertebrate, such as an earthworm.

Senses

ramper is used for these senses in English:

  • crawl (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
  • crawl (transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
  • creep (intransitive, of plants) To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
  • ramp (obsolete, intransitive) To stand in a rampant position.

crawl — full definition

  1. verb To move on hands and knees, or drag the body low along a surface.
  2. verb To move or progress very slowly.
  3. verb For a computer program to automatically visit and index web pages.
  4. noun A very slow pace, or a tour of several bars in one night ("bar crawl").

creep — full definition

  1. verb To move slowly, quietly, or close to the ground.
  2. verb To change or increase very gradually, often in an unwelcome way.
  3. noun An unpleasant or unsettling person, especially one who behaves in a sexually inappropriate way.

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