Crawler

Quick meaning: Crawler is a noun meaning A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.

Meaning

A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.

More Meanings

1. (sports) A crawl swimmer.
2. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
3. (Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
4. A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
5. (UK, slang, obsolete) A cab that is driven slowly along while its driver looks out for a fare.
6. Synonym of crawler crane.
7. (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• crawlers

Synonyms for crawler

Depending on context, synonyms include spider, sycophant, toady, lackey.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sycophant, toady, lackey, creepy, exploitative, exploiter.

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