Crank can be categorized as an adjective, a noun and a verb.
Adjective |
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| crank - (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | ||
Verb |
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| crank - bend into the shape of a crank | ||
| crank - rotate with a crank | ||
| crank - fasten with a crank | ||
| crank - start by cranking; "crank up the engine" | ||
| crank - travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside" | ||
Noun |
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| crank - a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle | ||
| crank - a bad-tempered person | ||
| crank - 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 | ||
| crank - a whimsically eccentric person |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | verb | Crank up the engine. | |
| 2. | verb | Hey! I don't want any crank calls - not at this hour. | |
| 3. | verb | It will take you a whole lifetime to understand a crank like him. | |
| 4. | verb | What a crank he is! | |
| 5. | verb | If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him. | |
| 6. | verb | A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. | |
| 7. | verb | I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle. | |
| 8. | verb | Can you crank up the heat? | |
| 9. | verb | Crank up the heater. | |
| 10. | verb | Before he had been a month in Avonlea he had won the reputation of being an odd person . . . "a crank," Mrs. Rachel Lynde said. | |
| 11. | verb | These crank shafts are precision balanced for smooth high revving engines. | |
| 12. | verb | Tom's car has crank windows. | |
| 13. | verb | I wouldn't buy that used car. It has a broken crank shaft. | |
| 14. | verb | Crank up the heat! |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| Crank up the engine. |
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| Hey! I don't want any crank calls - not at this hour. | |
| It will take you a whole lifetime to understand a crank like him. | |
| What a crank he is! | |
| If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him. | |
| A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. | |
| I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle. | |
| Can you crank up the heat? | |
| Crank up the heater. | |
| Before he had been a month in Avonlea he had won the reputation of being an odd person . . . "a crank," Mrs. Rachel Lynde said. | |
| These crank shafts are precision balanced for smooth high revving engines. | |
| Tom's car has crank windows. | |
| I wouldn't buy that used car. It has a broken crank shaft. | |
| Crank up the heat! | |