Crank

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Hard; difficult.
2. sıfat Strange; weird; odd.
3. sıfat Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
4. sıfat Sick; unwell.
5. sıfat Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.

   “This ship is so crank and walty I fear our grave she will be!”

6. sıfat Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

   “He who was a little before bedred[…]was now cranke and lustie.”

7. isim An ailment, ache.
8. isim An ill-tempered or nasty person.

   “Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.”

9. isim A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
10. isim A fit of temper or passion.

    “Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks.”

11. isim A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.

    “John is a crank because he talks to himself.”

12. isim An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.

    “That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.”

13. isim A baseball fan.
14. isim A sick person; an invalid.

    “Thou art a counterfeit crank, a cheater.”

15. isim 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.

    “I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.”

16. isim Clipping of crankshaft.
17. isim The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.

    “Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.”

18. isim Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

    “So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.”

19. isim Synonym of methamphetamine.

    “Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.”

20. isim A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

    “Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,”

21. isim The penis.

    “It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank.”

22. fiil To turn by means of a crank.

    “Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.”

23. fiil To turn a crank.

    “He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.”

24. fiil To turn.

    “He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.”

25. fiil To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.

    “I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over”

26. fiil To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.

    “Quit cranking about your spilt milk!”

27. fiil To be running at a high level of output or effort.

    “By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.”

28. fiil To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

    “See how this river comes me cranking in.”

29. özel isim A surname.
30. özel isim A small village in Rainford parish, St Helens borough, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ5099).