different between crance vs crane

English

Alternative forms

• crans, cranje, cranse

Noun

crance (plural crances)

1. (nautical) An iron band, at the end of a bowsprit, fitted with eyes to take the bowsprit shrouds and the bobstay

Synonyms

• crance iron

Anagrams

• Cancer, cancer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English cran, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh?- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

1. Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
   • 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:

     Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

2. (US, dialect) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
3. A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
4. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
5. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
6. (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.

Hyponyms

• Gruidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Derived terms

(Lifting devices):

Related terms

• cranberry, via German Low German Kraan (“crane”)

Descendants

Translations

See also

• egret
• heron
• stork

Verb

crane (third-person singular simple present cranes, present participle craning, simple past and past participle craned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To extend (one's neck).
   • 1879, George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such

     and my bachelor's hearth is imbedded where by much craning of head and neck I can catch sight of a sycamore in the Square garden,

2. (transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
   • 1619, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry

     an upstart craned up to the height he has

3. (intransitive) To pull up before a jump.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

1. (obsolete) The cranium.

Anagrams

• Caren, Carne, Cerna, Crean, Rance, caner, caren, crena, nacre, nacré, rance, recan

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English cran, *crana, from Proto-Germanic *kranô.

Alternative forms

• krane, cranne, craane, crone, craune

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kra?n(?)/, /kran/

Noun

crane (plural cranes)

2. crane (bird)
3. crane (machine)

Derived terms

• cranage

Descendants

• English: crane (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: cran

References

• “cr?ne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin cr?nium.

Alternative forms

• cranee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kra?n/

Noun

crane

2. cranium

References

• “cr?ne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.