Word Finder - crank

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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.

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I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.

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

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Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.

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

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An ill-tempered or nasty person.

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

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A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;

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A fit of temper or passion.

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

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John is a crank because he talks to himself.

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• kook
• odd duck
• weirdo

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(1800s) A baseball fan.

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An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.

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That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.

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• crackpot

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A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

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A sick person; an invalid.

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A penis.

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• cock
• dick

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To turn by means of a crank.

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Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.

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To turn a crank.

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He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.

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(of a crank or similar) To turn.

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He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.

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

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Crank it up!

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

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Quit cranking about your spilt milk!

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To be running at a high level of output or effort.

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By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.

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To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

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Strange, weird, odd.

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Sick; unwell

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• infirm

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(of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.

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Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

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A highly addictive phenethylamine stimulant drug, similar to cocaine. Its systematic (IUPAC) name is (S)-N-methyl-1-phenylpropan-2-amine.

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• crystal
• crystal meth
• glass
• ice
• meth
• methamphetamines
• methylamphetamine
• speed
• tina
• tweak

Katie turned the crank at the base of the bed.

The form of the torque curve, or crank effort curve, as it is sometimes called, is discussed in the article Steam Engine, and the torque curve corresponding to actual indicator diagrams taken from an express passenger engine travelling at a speed of 65 m.

This platen had a perpendicular motion, being guided in grooves and worked by a connecting rod fixed to a cross beam and crank, which acquired its motion from the main shaft.

Each coil is attached to a shaft by a bell crank arrangement, and to these shafts there is secured a system of levers similar to that at the transmitter carrying the receiving pencil at the junction.

The assumption that the pistons of an engine move with simple harmonic motion is increasingly erroneous as the ratio of the length of the crank r, to the length of the con oecting rod 1 increases.

The type bed travels with a reciprocating motion upon rollers or runners made of steel, the bed being driven by a simple crank motion, starting and stopping without much noise or vibration.

For example, in a machine-work, the steam-engine, which is the prime mover of the various tools, has a flywheel on the crank-shaft to store and restore the periodical excess of energy arising from the variations in the effort exerted by the connecting-rod upon the crank; and each of the slotting machines, punching machines, riveting machines, and other tools has a flywheel of its own to store and restore energy, so as to enable the very different resistances opposed to those tools at different times to be overcome without too great unsteadiness of motion.

In balancing the mechanism of a steam engine it is often sufficiently accurate to consider the motion of the pistons as simple harmonic, and the effect on the framework of the acceleration of the connecting rod may be approximately allowed for by distributing the weight of the rod between the crank pin and the piston inversely as the centre of gravity of the rod divides the distance between the centre of the cross head pin and the centre of the crank pin.

This is done by the little crank B on the axle of the fly-wheel, acting through the rod C, and the bent lever D, which forms a toggle-joint at E with the vertical piece of metal below it.

The moving parts of the engine are then divided into two complete and independent systems, namely, one system of revolving weights consisting of crank pins, crank arms, &c., attached to and revolving with the crank shaft, and a second system of reciprocating weights consisting of the pistons, cross-heads, &c., supposed to be moving each in its line of stroke with simple harmonic motion.

He was that absent-minded crank, a grand seigneur husband who was in no one's way, and far from spoiling the high tone and general impression of the drawing room, he served, by the contrast he presented to her, as an advantageous background to his elegant and tactful wife.

Then the work done during one revolution of the crank is 2pla per cylinder.

Eccentric.An eccentric circular disk fixed on a shaft, and used to give a reciprocating motion to a rod, is in effect a crank-pin of sufficiently large diameter to surround the shaft, and so to avoid the weakening of the shaft which would arise from bending it so as to form an ordinary crank.

When it is connected with a continuously turning piece (such as the crank of a steam-engine) the ends of the stroke of the reciprocating piece correspond to the d.ead-points of the path of the connected point of the turning piece, where the line of connection is continuous with or coincides with the crank-arm.

Then, if the two ends of the stroke be in one straight line with the axis of the crank, S=2R; (37)

A chain built up of three turning pairs and one sliding pair, and known as the slider crank chain, is shown in fig.

The balance weights found as part of the equivalent revolving system when reciprocated by their respective crank pins form the balance weights for the given reciprocating system.

These conditions may be exactly realized by a system of weights reciprocated by slotted bars, the crank shaft driving the slotted bars rotating uniformly.

The balance weights are to be separately calculated for each system, the one set being added to the crank shaft as revolving weights, and the second set being included with the reciprocating weights and operated by a properly placed crank on the crank shaft.

When the link forms part of a mechanism the respective accelerations of two points in the link can be determined by means of the velocity and acceleration diagrams described in 82, it being understood that the motion of one link in the mechanism is prescribed, for instance, in the steam-engines mechanism that the crank shall revolve uniformly.

The power is applied by steam acting directly on a crank at one end of the axle, and the diameter of the fan may be 40 ft.

Examples, completely worked out, of velocity and acceleration diagrams for the slider crank chain, the four-bar chain, and the mechanism of the Joy valve gear will be found in ch.

In the particular case where the motion is of the kind known as simple harmonic the disturbing force on the frame due to the reciprocation of the weight is equal to the component of the centrifugal force in the line of stroke due to a weight equal to the reciprocated weight supposed concentrated at the crank pin.

The Baltimore & Ohio railway was to cross his property, and, after various inventions aiming to do away with the locomotive crank and thus save two-fifths of the steam, in 1830 he designed and constructed (largely after plans made two years before) the first steam locomotive built in America; though only a small model it proved the practicability of using steam power for working that line.

The most successful of the first class, or pick machines, that of William Firth of Sheffield, consists essentially of a horizontal pick with two cutting arms placed one slightly in advance of the other, which is swung backwards and forwards by a pair of bell crank levers actuated by a horizontal cylinder engine mounted on a railway truck.

Using this principle the method of finding the balance weights to be added to a given system of reciprocating weights in order to produce a system of forces on the frame continuously in equilibrium is exactly the same as that just explained for a system of revolving weights, because for the purpose of finding the balance weights each reciprocating weight may be supposed attached to the crank pin which operates it, thus forming an equivalent revolving system.

In the case of locomotives the balance weights required to balance the pistons are added as revolving weights to the crank shaft system, and in fact are generally combined with the weights required to balance the revolving system so as to form one weight, the counterpoise referred to in the preceding section, which is seen between the spokes of the wheels of a locomotive.

The crank shaft carries a pinion which gears into a toothed wheel of a coarse pitch, carrying cutters at the ends of the teeth.

Deflecting Force for Translation in a Curved Path.In machinery, deflecting force is supplied by the tenacity of some piece, such as a crank, which guides the deflected body in its curved path, and is unbalanced, being employed in producing deflexion, and not in balancing another force.

At one end of the band-wheel shaft is the bull-rope pulley, and upon the other end is a crank having six holes to receive a movable wrist-pin, the length of stroke of the walking-beam being thus adjusted.

The engine, which is provided with reversing gear, is of 12 or 15 horse-power and motion is communicated through a belt to the band-wheel, which operates the walking-beam by means of a crank.

The band-wheel communicates motion to the walking-beam, while drilling is in progress, through the crank and a connectingrod known as the pitman; to the bull-wheels, while the tools are being raised, by the bull-rope; and to the sand-pump reel, by a friction pulley, while the sand-pump is being used.

From the centre of the under screw an axle provided with a hook (e), which performs the part of a crank, projects in an upward direction.

Between the hook or crank (e) and the centre of the upper screw (a a), the indiarubber in a state of torsion (f) extends.

The circular grate G can be turned round K by means of the crank E from the outside.

The chassis, now further back in the workshop, showing the refitted crank axle.

The crank axle is in front of the loco.

The small block chevy has 2 big end crank journal sizes, known as small journal and large journal!

Current Work I use stoneware clays of all kinds, ranging from porcelain to crank.

When using a 58mm crank with an eccentric crankpin and Rotax rod, 60 or 61mm strokes can be gained.

The link lengths and the crank angular displacement are varied.

It replaces the winding crank and provides a comfortable grip, which facilitates handheld photography.

Features include an integral hooter, pedal crank with ec... .

The next 60 revolutions of the crank will flash the led to verify the positioning is OK.

This process, known as scraping in was repeated until most of the bearing could be seen to be contacting with the crank ping in was repeated until most of the bearing could be seen to be contacting with the crank pin.

Once set, make an easier to see mark on the rear timing cover above the crank pulley aligned with the scribed timing mark.

He was often ridiculed for his association with what was, at the time, considered a crank religion.

A crank on the other end is connected to the hand throttle control.

The modern movement in favour of industrial employment combined with humane and intelligent considerations has swept away the more or less barbaric method of enforcing labour by automatic machinery such as the treadmill, crank and shot drill (see Treadmill).

The rod was bent in the middle so that it could be turned as with a crank.