What part of speech is cranking?

Cranking can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. cranking is a verb, gerund of crank (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does cranking mean?

Definitions

Verb

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"

Examples of cranking

#   Sentence  
1. verb An office machine is cranking out a stream of documents.
2. verb There are torches that do not need batteries. Some are charged by shaking them, some by cranking a handle and others by repeatedly pressing a lever.
3. verb Crank up the engine.
4. verb Hey! I don't want any crank calls - not at this hour.
5. verb It will take you a whole lifetime to understand a crank like him.
6. verb What a crank he is!
7. 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.
8. verb A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
9. verb I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
10. verb Can you crank up the heat?
11. verb Crank up the heater.
12. 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.
13. verb These crank shafts are precision balanced for smooth high revving engines.
14. verb Tom's car has crank windows.
15. verb I wouldn't buy that used car. It has a broken crank shaft.
Sentence  
verb
An office machine is cranking out a stream of documents.
There are torches that do not need batteries. Some are charged by shaking them, some by cranking a handle and others by repeatedly pressing a lever.
Crank up the engine.
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.

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