different between crake vs crape

English

Alternative forms

• Crake

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?k/

Etymology 1

From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh?-, itself onomatopoeic.

Noun

crake (plural crakes)

1. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

Derived terms

• Baillon's crake (Porzana pusilla)
• brown crake (Amaurornis akool)
• Colombian crake (Neocrex colombianus)
• corncrake (Crex crex)
• (as syn. of corncrake) cracker
• crakeberry (Empetrum spp.}
• spotted crake (Porzana porzana)
• water crake (Porzana porzana; Cinclus spp.; Rallus aquaticus)

Translations

Verb

crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)

1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

Etymology 2

From Middle English craken, from Old English cracian, from Proto-Germanic *krak?n?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kroakje, West Frisian kreakje, Dutch kraken, Low German kraken, French craquer (< Germanic), German krachen.

Verb

crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)

1. (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

Noun

crake (plural crakes)

1. (obsolete) A crack; a boast.

Anagrams

• Acker, Kacer, acker, creak

English

Etymology

Alteration of French crepe, from Middle French crespe (“curly”), from Latin crispus. Doublet of crisp and crepe.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?p, IPA^(key): /k?e?p/
• Homophones: crepe, crêpe
• Rhymes: -e?p

Noun

crape (countable and uncountable, plural crapes)

1. Alternative form of crepe (“a thin fabric, paper, or pancake”).
2. Mourning garments, especially an armband or hatband.

Translations

Verb

crape (third-person singular simple present crapes, present participle craping, simple past and past participle craped)

1. (transitive) To form into ringlets; to curl or crimp.

   a machine for craping silk

   • July 24, 1786, Frances Burney (aka Madame d'Arblay), diary

     the hour for curling and craping the hair

2. (transitive) To clothe in crape.

Anagrams

• Pacer, caper, pacer, recap

Neapolitan

Noun

crape

1. plural of crapa

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?krape]

Verb

crape

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of cr?pa
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of cr?pa