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Definition of 'crank'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) crank
any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft.

2.  crank
Informal. an ill-tempered person.

3.  crank
an unbalanced person who is overzealous in the advocacy of a private cause.

4.  crank
a whimsical notion; conceit.

5.  crank
a strikingly clever turn of speech or play on words.

6.  crank
Archaic. a bend; turn.

7.  crank
methamphetamine prepared for illicit use.

8.  crank
a crankshaft.

9. (v.t.) crank
to rotate (a shaft) by means of a crank.

10.  crank
to start (an internal-combustion engine), esp. by turning the crankshaft manually.

11.  crank
to shape like a crank.

12.  crank
to furnish with a crank.

13. (v.i.) crank
to turn a crank, as in starting an automobile engine.

14.  crank
Obs. to turn and twist; zigzag.

15.  crank
crank out, to produce in a mass-production or mechanical way.

16.  crank
crank up,

17.  crank
to get started.

18.  crank
to stimulate or produce:
to crank up enthusiasm.

19. (adj.) crank
of, pertaining to, or by an unbalanced or overzealous person:
a crank phone call.

20. (adj.) crank
tending to roll easily, as a boat; tender

Etymology: (1690–1700; prob. same as crank¹)

Definition of 'crank'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) grouch, grump, crank, churl, crosspatch
a bad-tempered person

2. (noun) crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball
a whimsically eccentric person

3. (noun) methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash
an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

4. (adj) crank, starter
a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle

5. (verb) crank, cranky, tender, tippy
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

6. (verb) zigzag, crank
travel along a zigzag path
"The river zigzags through the countryside"

7. (verb) crank, crank up
start by cranking
"crank up the engine"

8. (verb) crank, crank up
rotate with a crank

9. (verb) crank
fasten with a crank

10. (verb) crank
bend into the shape of a crank

Definition of 'crank'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) crank
a bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank

2. (noun) crank
any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage

3. (noun) crank
a twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word

4. (noun) crank
a twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion

5. (noun) crank
a person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter

6. (noun) crank
a sick person; an invalid

7. (noun) crank
sick; infirm

8. (noun) crank
liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail

9. (noun) crank
full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated

10. (noun) crank
to run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn

Definitions of 'crank'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. crank
[from automotive slang] Verb used to describe the performance of a machine, especially sustained performance. “This box cranks (or, cranks at) about 6 megaflops, with a burst mode of twice that on vectorized operations.”

Translation of 'crank'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a person with strange or odd ideas.
Afrikaans: anderste, eksentriek, mal	Arabic: شَخْصُ شاذ الأطْوار	Bulgarian: чудак
Brazilian: excêntrico	Czech: ztřeštěnec	German: wunderlicher Kauz
Danish: særling; underlig fisk	Greek: ιδιόρρυθμος	Spanish: chiflado, excéntrico, rar
Estonian: ekstsentrik	Farsi: آدم عجیب و غریب	Finnish: sekopää
French: excentrique	Hebrew: תִּמהוֹנִי	Hindi: धुरी की मोड़
Croatian: čudak	Hungarian: különc	Indonesian: eksentrik
Icelandic: sérvitringur	Italian: eccentrico	Japanese: 変人
Korean: 기인	Lithuanian: keistuolis, ekscentrikas	Latvian: savādnieks; īpatnis; eksc
Malay: orang yang aneh	Dutch: zonderling	Norwegian: skrue, særling
Polish: dziwak	Persian: آدم عجیب و غریب	Pashto: عجیب اوغریب سړی
Portuguese: excêntrico	Romanian: excentric	Russian: чудак
Slovak: blázon	Slovenian: čudak	Serbian: čudak
Swedish: excentrisk individ, origi	Thai: คนที่มีความคิดประหลาด	Turkish: eksantrik birisi
Taiwanese: 怪人	Ukrainian: ексцентрична людина, люди	Urdu: سنكى، خبطى
Vietnamese: người kỳ cục	Chinese: 怪人
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