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Meaning of "crabwise" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CRABWISE

crabwise  [ˈkræbˌwaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRABWISE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Crabwise can act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES CRABWISE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of crabwise in the English dictionary

The definition of crabwise in the dictionary is sideways; like a crab.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRABWISE


anticlockwise
ˌæntɪˈklɒkˌwaɪz
anywise
ˈɛnɪˌwaɪz
clockwise
ˈklɒkˌwaɪz
contrariwise
ˈkɒntrərɪˌwaɪz
counterclockwise
ˌkaʊntəˈklɒkˌwaɪz
crosswise
ˈkrɒsˌwaɪz
dropwise
ˈdrɒpˌwaɪz
edgewise
ˈɛdʒˌwaɪz
endwise
ˈendˌwaɪz
lengthwise
ˈlɛŋθˌwaɪz
likewise
ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz
nowise
ˈnəʊˌwaɪz
otherwise
ˈʌðəˌwaɪz
pairwise
ˈpɛəˌwaɪz
piecewise
ˈpiːsˌwaɪz
sidewise
ˈsaɪdˌwaɪz
stepwise
ˈstɛpˌwaɪz
streetwise
ˈstriːtˌwaɪz
sunwise
ˈsʌnˌwaɪz
widthwise
ˈwɪdθˌwaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRABWISE

crab louse
Crab Nebula
crab stick
Crabbe
crabbed
crabbedly
crabbedness
crabber
crabbier
crabbiest
crabbily
crabbiness
crabbing
crabby
crabeater
crablike
crabmeat
crabs
crabstick
crabwood

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRABWISE

airwise
be wise
bendwise
chordwise
coastwise
combwise
cornerwise
elsewise
flatwise
leastwise
palewise
penny-wise
slantwise
suchwise
taxwise
thwartwise
unwise
weather-wise
wise
worldly-wise

Synonyms and antonyms of crabwise in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «crabwise» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRABWISE

Find out the translation of crabwise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of crabwise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «crabwise» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

crabwise
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

crabwise
570 millions of speakers

English

crabwise
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

crabwise
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

crabwise
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

косвенное измерение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

crabwise
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

crabwise
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crabwise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Crabwise
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Krebsgang
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

crabwise
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

crabwise
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Crabwise
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

crabwise
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

crabwise
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रॅबवर्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

crabwise
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

crabwise
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

crabwise
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

непряме вимір
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

crabwise
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

crabwise
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

crabwise
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

crabwise
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

crabwise
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of crabwise

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRABWISE»

The term «crabwise» is used very little and occupies the 160.432 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRABWISE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «crabwise» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «crabwise» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about crabwise

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRABWISE»

Discover the use of crabwise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to crabwise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Crabwise to the Hounds
There's an elegance here that matches Dodds' impulse to challenge the reader with fresh metaphor and astonishing phrasing; the formal ambitions of many of the poems in "Crabwise to the Hounds" are balanced by an inclination towards wordplay ...
Jeramy Dodds, 2004
2
Literary Non-combatants: Contemporary British Fiction and ...
Well, well; I daresay you'll have to give up the crabwise approach for this one. What's the first sentence? Green: My 'London of 1940'...opens in Cork, 1938. Interviewer: ...I see. (Southern 18-19) Southern's amusement at the prospect of Green ...
Taryn L. Okuma, 2008
3
Advances in Ethanol Research and Application: 2012 Edition
(2011 JUN 29) National Cheng Kung University: Ethanol Gas Sensor of Crabwise Cu0 Nanowires Prepared on Glass Substrate “We report the growth of CuO nanowires and the fabrication of crabwise Cu0 nanowires ethanol gas sensor on ...
‎2012
4
The Prisoner Pear: Stories from the Lake
Crabwise. Vandals broke lights at an apartment complex Jan 12th on the first block of Monroe Parkway. —Lake Oswego Review police blotter THERE WERE DAYS when the four of them sat in smoky theaters downtown to watch obscure ...
Elissa Minor Rust, 2005
5
Home is where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life
The best I could ever achieve was to proceed slowly (crabwise, as it were) with map and compass — for which, in scientific research, you can substitute observation and calculation. Working your way out of an awkward position takes what ...
Sir Fred Hoyle, 1994
6
Merriam-Webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
... morose, sullen 7 brusque 8 choleric, snappish 9 irascible, irritable, saturnine, splenetic crabby see crabbed crab-like 8 cancroid. crabwise. 8 sidelong, sideward, sideways 9 laterally crack 2 go 3 gag, try 4 bang, bash, belt, blow, boom, chap ...
‎1995
7
Fundamentals and Applications of Ultrasonic Waves, Second ...
But if a mistake has been made in the choice of crystal orientation, then while n is still perpendicular to the transducer face, the energy of the ultrasonic beam will propagate crabwise, as shown in Figure 11.1. In a worst-case scenario, it may ...
J. David N. Cheeke, 2012
8
Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)
So I went down thestreet crabwise. She knew I wasgoing crabwise, she knew the position of the “bobby”at the corner,she knew everything allround her. And when she sawme vanishing shebegan toflirt withme. She put her head on one side ...
John Galsworthy, 2013
9
Source Book for Linguistics: Third revised edition
1. driver 11. youngish 21. daily 2. useful 12. crabwise 22. readable 3. cowardly 13. dismissal 23. backwards 4. sanity 14. employee 24. attractive 5. drainage 15. inhabitant 25. idealism 6. childless 16. violinist 26. Darwinian 7. disinfectant 17.
William Cowan, Jaromira Raku_an, 1999
10
The European Waterways: A User's Guide
If the boat is still crabwise when the front enters between the walls outside the gate, there will be virtually no wind force acting on the front section and the effect of the wind onthebackwill push the stern round. There are few narrow boat owners ...
Marian Martin, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRABWISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term crabwise is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Robo not much cop: $2m androids fall at first hurdle
Nor could they just walk through doors: they sidled crabwise. Another crowd favourite, the oddly hinged bright-red Chimp from Carnegie Mellon ... «The Sunday Times, Jun 15»
2
'Dreams of Earth and Sky' draws intriguing lines between philosophy …
(The “dull or lazy” originally comes from Wendell Berry's stinging, if crabwise, criticism — in a letter responding to Dyson's piece on biotech in ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jun 15»
3
'Lambert & Stamp' Review: The Men Who Made The Who
They were film-crew underlings when they met at Shepperton Studios in the 1960s, shared a desire to make movies and devised a crabwise ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»
4
No spite, no spads: how David Steel routed the Tories 50 years ago
But McEwen was Eton and Oxbridge, just like a rather more contemporary prime minister you may know. Change, as ever, comes crabwise. «The Guardian, Mar 15»
5
Kim Kardashian's Marriage by Sam Riviere, review: 'great wit'
And so Riviere touches his declared subject only obliquely, moving crabwise. The names Kim, Kanye and Kris are suppressed. Instead, other ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
6
The Dark Master of Russian Film
It comes at its atrocity crabwise, instead of head-on. The title character is a Soviet policeman in 1935 in a dreary, snowbound provincial town. «The New York Review of Books, Jan 15»
7
European Union Tries Rebooting the Economy
Despite strong resistance even the French socialist government is moving crabwise towards a less generous pension system. Italy has eased ... «YaleGlobal Online, Jan 15»
8
A revolution, one small press at a time
Sanjiv Bhatla launched Crabwise Press in 2010 after his book, Injustice, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2007. His grouse? «Mid-Day, Jan 15»
9
Eleven books of poetry you should read this year
... K Srilata's Writing Octopus (Authorspress); Nimmah's Lonely Man (Crabwise) by Sanjiv Bhatla; Alka Tyagi's Whispers at the Ganga Ghat and ... «Scroll.in, Jan 15»
10
Deflation is a rising threat for markets
Disagreement on the governing council of the European Central Bank ensures a crabwise progression towards full scale government bond ... «Financial Times, Jan 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Crabwise [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/crabwise>. Apr 2024 ».
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