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In a study that addressed lurking in E-learning, scholars found evidence that lurking is a helpful type of participation in online courses. Students said that the most common reasons they lurked before posting were to discover a message to reply to, to identify a model to adopt, to bypass providing a similar reply, and to acquire knowledge ...
The Lurkers, 1970s English punk rock group; Lurk (Dungeons & Dragons) Lurk, another name for a vampire in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off comic Fray; Lurk, a character in the 1972 British comedy film Up the Front; Lurk, another name for a myrddraal, a fictional shadowspawn species in the Wheel of Time series; Lurk, 2009 Chinese TV series
Lurcher is an old English term for a crossbred dog; specifically, the result of mating a sighthound with a dog of another type, typically a working breed.The term was first used with this meaning in 1668; it is considered to be derived from the verb lurch, apparently a variant form of lurk, meaning lurk or steal.
If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master." and adds as a footnote: Demon lurking: in Hebrew, robes, literally "croucher," is used here, like the similar Akkadian term rabisu, to designate a certain kind of evil spirit.
In the mountains of Ecuador lurked a scaly creature with a white “collar” around its neck. For years, the distinctive animal had managed to go unnoticed or, when occasionally spotted ...
The Tikbalang (/ˈtikbaˌlaŋ/) (also Tigbalang, Tigbalan, Tikbalan, Tigbolan, or Werehorse) is a creature of Philippine folklore said to lurk in the mountains and rainforests of the Philippines. It is a tall, bony humanoid (half-human and half-horse) creature with the head and hooves of a horse and disproportionately long limbs, to the point ...
That doesn't mean that someone who is obviously not a newbie is also a sockpuppet— there are a number of legitimate reasons why a new account would have an experienced editor behind it— but the presumption that a new account that starts front-loaded with knowledge of policy and wiki markup is more likely to be a lurker than an experienced ...
1994's The Lurking Fear is an adaptation of Lovecraft's story "The Lurking Fear". It has some elements faithful to Lovecraft's story, while being hijacked by a crime caper subplot. 1995's Castle Freak is loosely inspired by Lovecraft's story "The Outsider".