Meaning of Crawler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
2. A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
   Australia, obsolete
3. A crawl swimmer.
4. A sycophant.
   Australia, UK, slang
5. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
6. A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
   Internet
7. A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
8. A cab that is driven slowly along while its driver looks out for a fare.
   UK, obsolete, slang
9. Synonym of crawler crane.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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