different between cruise vs crock

English

Alternative forms

• cruize

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kruisen (“cross, sail around”), from kruis (“cross”), from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kro?oz, IPA^(key): /k?u?z/
• Homophone: crews
• Rhymes: -u?z

Noun

cruise (plural cruises)

1. A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
2. (aeronautics) Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
3. (US, military, informal) A period spent in the Marine Corps.
   • 1919, United States. Marine Corps, Recruiters' Bulletin (page 16)

     I ended my cruise of four years in the Marine Corps at the first Officers' Training Camp for enlisted men at Quantico […]

   • 2015, George Barnett, Andy Barnett, George Barnett, Marine Corps Commandant: A Memoir, 1877-1923

     The New Orleans had to have numerous alterations made, and as the Chicago was just about going into commission, I was ordered to that ship to finish my cruise.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cruise (third-person singular simple present cruises, present participle cruising, simple past and past participle cruised)

1. (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.

   • He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous, […].

2. (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
3. (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
4. (transitive, intransitive, forestry) To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
6. (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
7. (intransitive, sports) To win easily and convincingly.

Derived terms

• beach cruiser
• cruiser
• cruising for a bruising

Descendants

• ? Dutch: cruisen, cruise

Translations

Anagrams

• crusie, curies

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cruise, from Dutch kruisen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kru?s/
• Hyphenation: cruise
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

cruise m (plural cruises, diminutive cruiseje n)

1. cruise

Derived terms

• cruiseboot
• cruisereis
• cruiseschip

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise

Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa or cruisene)

1. a cruise

Derived terms

• cruiseskip

References

• “cruise” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dutch kruisen, via English cruise

Noun

cruise n (definite singular cruiset, indefinite plural cruise, definite plural cruisa)

1. a cruise

Derived terms

• cruiseskip

References

• “cruise” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: croc

Etymology 1

From Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *krukk?, *krukkô (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *growg- (“vessel”). The English word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian krukke (“jar”), Dutch kruik (“jar, jug”), regional German Kruke (“crock”), Icelandic krukka (“pot, jar”), Old English cr?g, cr?h (“crock, pitcher, vessel”). See also cruse.

Noun

crock (plural crocks)

1. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
   • 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181,

     Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his lea?ings vain; / Like fooli?h Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.

2. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
3. (Britain) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
   • 1925, John Buchan, John Macnab, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0300621,

     He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance. […] “Not so bad that, for a crock,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask.

   • 1932, Helen Simpson, Boomerang, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0800611,

     He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can?t ask a girl to marry a crock.”

   • 2006, The Moving Finger, part one (Miss Marple, 15 min, 20 year old bicycling tomboy to injured walker):

     Girl: "Will you always be a bit of a crock?"
     Man: "According to my doctor, no."
     Girl: "I was afraid you looked bad-tempered because you were crocked up for life."

4. (Britain) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).

5. (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.

6. A low stool.
   • 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (Richard Steele), The Tatler, 1822, Alexander Chalmers (editor), The Tatler, 2007 Facsimile Edition, page 12,

     I then inquired for the person that belonged to the petticoat; and, to my great surprise, was directed to a very beautiful young damsel, with so pretty a face and shape, that I bid her come out of the crowd, and seated her upon a little crock at my left hand.

7. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.

Synonyms

• (vehicle): banger

Translations

Verb

crock (third-person singular simple present crocks, present participle crocking, simple past and past participle crocked)

1. To break something or injure someone.
   • 1904, P.G. Wodehouse, The Gold Bat [2]:

     "That last time I brought down Barry I crocked him. He's in his study now with a sprained ankle. ..."

   • 2007 January 3, Daily Mirror:

     Thousands of cars crocked by dodgy fuel

   • 2006 April 30, The Sunday Times:

     Ferreira ... peremptorily expunges England’s World Cup chances by crocking Wayne Rooney.

2. (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
   • 1917, John H. Pfingsten, "Colouring-matter for leather and method of using the same" [3], US Patent 1371572, page 1:

     thus producing a permanent, definite color thereon which will not fade or crock, and at the same time using up all of the coloring matter.

   • 1964, Isabel Barnum Wingate, Know Your Merchandise [4], page 109:

     Colored fabrics should be dried separately for the first few times to prevent crocking (rubbing off of dye).

   • 2002, Sandy Scrivano, Sewing With Leather & Suede [5], ?ISBN, page 95:

     In leather garments, lining also prevents crocking of color onto skin or garments worn underneath.

3. (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
   • 1900, H.A. Burberry, The Amateur Orchid Cultivators' Guide Book [6], page 21:

     The pots should be crocked for drainage to one-half their depth and the plants made moderately firm in the compost, as already indicated...

4. (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
   • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:

     She filled the pail and carried it down to the springhouse to crock it and leave it to cool.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare Welsh croeg (“cover”), Scots crochit (“covered”).

Noun

crock (uncountable)

1. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
2. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.

Verb

crock (third-person singular simple present crocks, present participle crocking, simple past and past participle crocked)

1. (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.

References

Further reading

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[7] (etymology)

Scots

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kr?k], [krok]

Noun

crock (plural crocks)

1. an old ewe which has ceased bearing
2. crock (large earthenware vessel for holding milk, cream, salt, butter, etc.)

Derived terms

• crockanition (“complete destruction, fragments”)
• crockums (“refuse of fish livers after the oil has been extracted”)