🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

爬行者

Pronunciation / Transliteration: páxíng zhě

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Crawler/ˈkrɔːlər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个宝宝是一个爬行者,正在探索世界。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person or thing that crawls.

    "The baby is a crawler, exploring the world on all fours."
  2. 2

    A program that automatically browses the web to index content for search engines.

    "The search engine's crawler discovered new pages to include in its database."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'crawler' originates from the verb 'crawl', which comes from the Old English 'crāwlian', meaning to move on hands and knees. The term evolved in the late 19th century to refer to various types of moving entities, including machines and software that navigate through environments.

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