crawler

C2+ Topic:Transportation

US /ˈkrɔlɚ/ UK /ˈkrɔːlə/ See IPA manual

noun

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noun
something that crawls; a tracked vehicle or a web-indexing program

The search engine's crawler indexes millions of new pages daily.

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1 noun · something that crawls; a... spider bot creepertractor

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Related forms crawl crawling

Etymology

From the verb 'crawl' plus the agentive suffix '-er'. 'Crawl' is from Old Norse 'krafla' ('to claw, scrabble'), of Scandinavian origin.

krafla Old Norse

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# crawler

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** ˈkrɔlɚ
**IPA (UK):** ˈkrɔːlə

## Meanings
1. something that crawls; a tracked vehicle or a web-indexing program

## Examples
- The search engine's crawler indexes millions of new pages daily.

## Synonyms
- spider
- bot
- creeper
- tractor

## Related Forms
- crawl
- crawling

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: krafla

## Etymology
From the verb 'crawl' plus the agentive suffix '-er'. 'Crawl' is from Old Norse 'krafla' ('to claw, scrabble'), of Scandinavian origin.

## AI Etymology
Crawler is from the verb 'crawl' plus the agentive suffix '-er'. 'Crawl' is from Old Norse 'krafla' ('to claw, scrabble'), of Scandinavian origin. The immediate etymological form is Old Norse krafla. The suffix -er marks an agent, instrument, or associated person, so the English form is shaped by recognizable word formation as well as by its inherited or borrowed base. In present use as a noun, it means "something that crawls; a tracked vehicle or a web-indexing program", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include crawl and crawling.

## Topics
- Transportation
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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