crawler
English
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From crawl (“to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) + -er.
Caterpillar D9 crawler tractor.
Cochineal (the crawler is on the left)
Noun
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.
- (Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
- Synonym: spider
- 2008, Alex Michael; Ben Salter, Marketing Through Search Optimization, Routledge, →ISBN, page xii:
- Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.
- 2011, James Pearce, Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal (page 466)
- These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.
- A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
Derived terms
- church crawler
- crawler lane
- crawler track
- crawlerway
- creepy crawler
- curb crawler
- dungeon crawler
- ice crawler
- kerb crawler
- nightcrawler
- pub crawler
- wall crawler
- wall-crawler
- Web crawler
Translations
child able to creep
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crawl swimmer
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tractor crawler
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software bot
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Etymology 2
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.[1]
Noun
crawler (plural crawlers)
- (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
Translations
sycophant — see sycophant
abused person
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References
- James Tucker (1845) Ralph Rashleigh; or, The Life of an Exile
Anagrams
- recrawl
French
Etymology
crawl + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁo.le/
Audio (file)
Verb
crawler
- (transitive, intransitive) to swim using the crawl stroke
- (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to spider
Conjugation
Conjugation of crawler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | crawler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, on | 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/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “crawler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.