crank
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(dialectal)Hard; difficult.
- 2.
(informal)Strange; weird; odd.
- 3.
(dialectal)Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
- 4.
Sick; unwell.
Đồng nghĩa: infirm
- 5.
(nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
- 6.
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(dialectal)(now chiefly dialectal) An ailment, ache.
- 2.
(informal)An ill-tempered or nasty person.
Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.
- 3.
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
- 4.
A fit of temper or passion.
- 5.
(British, dated, informal)(informal, British, dated in US) 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.
Đồng nghĩa: kook, odd duck, weirdo, crackpot, bizarro, coot, crackpot, crank, eccentric, freak, glaik, hard case, kook, live one, nutbag, nutbar, nutcase, nutter, oddball, oddity, odd bod, odd duck, odd fish, queerdo, queer fish, rum, strange bird, strange fish, strangeling, wack, wacko, weirdie, weirdling, weirdo, wild man, wingnut
- 6.
(informal)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.
- 7.
(archaic, slang)(archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.
- 8.
(obsolete)A sick person; an invalid.
- 9.
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.
- 10.
The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.
Give it a forceful crank.
- 11.
(archaic)Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.
- 12.
(US, slang)Synonym of methamphetamine.
Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.
Đồng nghĩa: methamphetamine
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To turn by means of a crank.
Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
- 2.
(intransitive)To turn a crank.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
- 3.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
- 4.
(transitive)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
Crank it up!
- 5.
(intransitive)To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
- 6.
(intransitive)To be running at a high level of output or effort.
By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.
- 7.
(dated, intransitive)To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
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From Dutch - or krank, ultimately from *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (bent; weak). Cognate with crank, krank, krank.