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crank
English
Etymology
From Middle English cronk, cranke, from Old English cranc, from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”).
Cognate with German krank (“sick”), krank (“sick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?æ?k/
- Rhymes: -æ?k
Adjective
crank (comparative cranker, superlative crankest)
- (slang) Strange, weird, odd.
- Sick; unwell
- Synonym: infirm
- (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Phantom Ship
- This ship is so crank and walty
- I fear our grave she will be!
- 1833, Edgar Allan Poe, MS. Found in a Bottle
- The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank.
- 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Phantom Ship
- Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
- 1548, Nicolas Udall, The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente:
- He who was a little before bedred […] was now cranke and lustie.
- 1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
- If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
- 1548, Nicolas Udall, The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente:
Translations
Noun
crank (plural cranks)
- A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
- Clipping of crankshaft.
- The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
- (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, The Cantos of Mutabilitie Canto 7
- So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, The Cantos of Mutabilitie Canto 7
- (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
- A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- a fit of temper or passion.
- 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
- Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.
- 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
- (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
- Synonyms: kook, odd duck, weirdo; see also Thesaurus:strange person
- 1882 January 14, in Pall Mall Gazette:
- 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.
- (archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.
- (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
- Synonym: (US) crackpot
- (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
- (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
- (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
- (slang) A penis.
- Synonyms: cock, dick; see also Thesaurus:penis
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
crank (third-person singular simple present cranks, present participle cranking, simple past and past participle cranked)
- (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
- (intransitive) To turn a crank.
- (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
- (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
- (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
- (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
- (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- crank (mechanism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Ranck, ranck
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quartering
English
Verb
quartering
- present participle of quarter
Noun
quartering (plural quarterings)
- A division into four parts.
- 1994, David C. Schneider, Quantitative Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Scaling (page 36)
- Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
- 1994, David C. Schneider, Quantitative Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Scaling (page 36)
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
- (heraldry) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- (heraldry) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- (architecture) A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- (historical) The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
- (hunting) Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field.
Translations
Adjective
quartering (not comparable)
- (nautical) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; said of waves or any moving object.
- (by extension, aviation, of wind) Coming from aft and to one side; having both a crosswind and tailwind component.
- (engineering) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
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