crank
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
Etymology: From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).
Inflected forms:
form: cranker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crankest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cranks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cranks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cranking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cranked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cranked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crunk
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: crunk
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
Senses:
gloss: Hard; difficult.
pos: adj
tags: dialectal
gloss: Strange; weird; odd.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
pos: adj
tags: dialectal
gloss: Sick; unwell.
pos: adj
gloss: Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
pos: adj
examples: This ship is so crank and walty
I fear our grave she will be!
The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.
gloss: Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
pos: adj
examples: He who was a little before bedred[…]was now cranke and lustie.
If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
gloss: An ailment, ache.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: An ill-tempered or nasty person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.
gloss: A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
pos: noun
gloss: A fit of temper or passion.
pos: noun
examples: Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.
gloss: A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
informal
examples: John is a crank because he talks to himself.
Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau’s trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’—that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.
The raw meat cranks are in dead earnest. They think that raw food is the manna of heaven.
But do you know what isn't in the school books? That old Rossum was mad. Seriously, Miss Glory, you must keep this to yourself. The old crank wanted to actually make people.
gloss: An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.
gloss: A baseball fan.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
gloss: A sick person; an invalid.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.
gloss: To turn by means of a crank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
gloss: To turn a crank.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
gloss: To turn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
gloss: To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
Crank it up!
gloss: To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
gloss: To be running at a high level of output or effort.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
Better computers use variable speed fans so they run at top speed only when the computer is really cranking
When we were playing at the top of our ability and really cranking, the whole thing could sound like a jet plane taking off in the club.
expected that the NVA and VC were in a position to dish out what they're dishing out, and the rumor mill is really cranking overtime.
gloss: To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: See how this river comes me cranking in.
Derived words: crankish
crankism
crank letter
crankness
cranksome
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: pyöräyttää