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crank

crank (third-person singular simple present cranks, present participle cranking, simple past and past participle cranked)

1. To turn a crank.

   Crank it up!

   Hes been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.

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

   I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesnt turn over

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

   Quit cranking about your spilt milk!

4. To produce or present a desired object.

   Crank out the beer!

5. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare:

   See how this river comes me cranking in.

crank (plural cranks)

1. A bent piece of an axle, or shaft, or an arm attached at right angles to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a circular action to a wheel or other mechanical device and create power; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

   Use the crank on the motorcycle and go for a ride.

2. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.

   Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.

3. Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Spenser:

     So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.

4. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person

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

5. (US, slang) methamphetamine.

   Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.

6. (slang, UK, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.

   John is a crank because he talks to himself.

   • 1882 January 14, in Pall Mall Gazette:

     Persons whom the Americans since Guiteaus 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.

7. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Milton:

     Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles.

8. (nautical) A ship which, because of insufficient or poorly stowed ballast or cargo, is in danger of overturning.

crank (comparative cranker, superlative crankest)

1. (slang) Strange, weird, odd.

Definizione dizionario crank

manovella

gomito

pedivella

Altri significati:

(slang, UK, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.

bent piece

(US, slang) methamphetamine.

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

To turn a crank.

to turn a crank

(nautical) A ship which, because of insufficient or poorly stowed ballast or cargo, is in danger of overturning.

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

ill-tempered or nasty person

To produce or present a desired object.

(intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

(rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

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

A bent piece of an axle, or shaft, or an arm attached at right angles to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a circular action to a wheel or other mechanical device and create power; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person

act of turning a crankshaft

The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.