Word Finder - cranks

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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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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

An ebonite beam B is rocked up and down rapidly by a train of mechanism, and moves the cranks FIG.

At first the rolls were driven by workmen by means of cranks, but later they were worked by horses, mules or water-power.

The low-pressure cylinders drive on the leading crank-axle with cranks at right angles, the highpressure cylinders driving on the trailing wheels.

As the cranks are set go apart, there is no dead centre, and the engine is able to start under full load from any point of the stroke.

Circular shifting is regulated by attaching two or more points of the shifting piece to ends of equal and parallel rotating cranks, or by combinations of wheel-work to be afterwards described.

As an example of circular shifting may be cited the motion of the coupling rod, by which the parallel and equal cranks upon two or more axles of a locomotive engine are connected and made to rotate simultaneously.

Linkwoyk in GeneralThe pieces which are connected by linkwork, if they rotate or oscillate, are usually called cranks, beams and levers.

The cranks pass their deadpoints simultaneously.

To obviate the unsteadiness of motion which this tends to cause, the shafts are provided with a second set of cranks at right angles to the first, connected by means of a similar coupling-rod, so that one set of cranks pass their dead points at the instant when the other set are farthest from theirs.

For Moscow society Pierre was the nicest, kindest, most intellectual, merriest, and most magnanimous of cranks, a heedless, genial nobleman of the old Russian type.

Coupling of Parallel Axes.Two or more parallel shafts (such as those of a locomotive engine, with two or more pairs of driving wheels) are made to rotate with constantly equal angular velocities by having equal cranks, which are maintained parallel by a coupling-rod of such a length that the line of c000exion is equal to the distance between the axes.

The worse case for a heavy flywheel set up was the Spanish Motoplat electronic system, which was used on SX cranks.

The first two recipes come from The Cranks Recipe Book (Grafton ), produced by the now famous but once pioneering vegetarian restaurant.

Clayton was more taken with Holcroft's 4 cylinder idea, with the, previously untried, cranks at 135 degrees.

In some prisons hard labour was insisted upon, and embraced tread-wheels or the newly-invented cranks; in some it did not exist at all.

Throughout the whole province "Uncle" had the reputation of being the most honorable and disinterested of cranks.

This is the standard approach of cranks and quacks of all descriptions.

The first two recipes come from The Cranks Recipe Book (Grafton), produced by the now famous but once pioneering vegetarian restaurant.

Fitted to cranks to shorten distance between pedals, making a shorter turning circle for short legs.

Combine this with steel cranks and you have the reliable strength that a unicycle rider needs.

Clayton was more taken with Holcroft 's 4 cylinder idea, with the, previously untried, cranks at 135 degrees.

Once dry, you are finally ready to build up the bike by adding components such as the head set, bottom bracket, cranks, chain, bar, and seat post.

The stretchy fabric makes for a perfect fit and the touch of bust enhancement cranks up the sexiness.

The new trailers are very easy to lift and set up as they have easy lift cranks or a hydraulic lift.

When the first home sewing machines hit the market in the mid-19th century, they featured heavy cases with hand cranks or foot treadles.

Failure to do so may cause shortening of the muscles, which in turn cranks up the risk of future pulls and sprains exponentially.

And the ship's Emergency Medical Hologram (Robert Picardo) becomes a full-time doctor with all the quirks and cranks of a human medic.