different between creep vs hasten
creep
English
Etymology
From Middle English crepen, from Old English cr?opan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *kreupan, from Proto-Germanic *kreupan? (“to twist, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerb- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian krippe, krûpe, West Frisian crjippa (“to creep”), Low German krepen and krupen, Dutch kruipen (“to creep, crawl”), Middle High German kriefen (“to creep”), Danish krybe (“to creep”), Norwegian krype (“to creep”), Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”), Icelandic krjúpa (“to stoop”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kr?p, IPA(key): /k?i?p/, [k??i?p]
- Rhymes: -i?p
Verb
creep (third-person singular simple present creeps, present participle creeping, simple past crept or creeped or (obsolete) crope, past participle crept or creeped or (archaic) cropen)
- (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- Synonym: crawl
- (intransitive) Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- (intransitive) 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.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- 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.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
creep (countable and uncountable, plural creeps)
- 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
- (uncountable) 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, derogatory) Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- Synonym: weirdo
- (informal, derogatory) A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- (agriculture) A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Perce, Percé, crepe, crêpe, perce
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hasten
English
Etymology
Originally intransitive, from haste +? -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?he?.s?n/
- Rhymes: -e?s?n
Verb
hasten (third-person singular simple present hastens, present participle hastening, simple past and past participle hastened)
- (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
- (transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
- I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III scene ii[1]:
- Hamlet:
- Bid the players make haste.
- Will you two help to hasten them?
- (transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
Synonyms
- (move in a quick fashion): dart, race; see also Thesaurus:move quickly
- (speed up): accelerate, quicken, speed up; see also Thesaurus:speed up
- (cause a scheduled event to happen earlier): hurry, rush, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush
Derived terms
- hastener
Related terms
- haste
Translations
Anagrams
- Athens, snathe, sneath, thanes
Basque
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /(?)as?.ten/
Verb
hasten
- Present participle of hasi.
Danish
Noun
hasten c
- definite singular of hast
Finnish
Alternative forms
- hapsien
Noun
hasten
- Genitive plural form of hapsi.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?hastn?]
- Hyphenation: has?ten
- Homophone: hassten
Verb
hasten (weak, third-person singular present hastet, past tense hastete, past participle gehastet, auxiliary sein)
- to hurry, to rush
Conjugation
Synonyms
- eilen
- rennen
- stürmen
Antonyms
- trödeln
- trotten
Derived terms
- hastend
- hastig
- herbeihasten
- forthasten
See also
- beschleunigen
- herbeieilen
- vorauseilen
- forteilen
- laufen
Further reading
- “hasten” in Duden online
Swedish
Noun
hasten
- definite singular of hast
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