crane

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɹeɪn/    美 /kɹeɪn/|/kɹæɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
    — Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.
  2. The cranium. obsolete
  3. Alternative form of cran (“measure of herrings”). alt-of,alternative
  4. Ardea herodias, the great blue heron. US,dialectal
  5. A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
    — Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]
  6. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
  7. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
  8. A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
动词 v.
  1. To extend (one's neck). ambitransitive
    — and my bachelor's hearth is imbedded where by much craning of head and neck I can catch sight of a sycamore in the Square garden,
  2. To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane. transitive
    — What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens.
  3. To pull up before a jump. intransitive

词形变化

cranes plural cranes present,singular,third-person craning participle,present craned participle,past craned past cranes plural cranes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
breakdown crane claw crane container crane craneable crane driver crane engine crane game crane-line crane locomotive crane operator crawler crane gantry crane mobile crane overhead crane platform crane skill crane stacker crane steam crane Titan crane tower crane travelling crane traveling crane Australian crane Balearic crane black crested crane black crowned crane black-necked crane blue crane common crane crested crane crowned crane demoiselle crane Eurasian crane grey crowned crane hooded crane Japanese crane Manchurian crane Numidian crane paper crane paradise crane red-crowned crane sandhill crane sarus crane Siberian crane Stanley crane wattled crane white-naped crane whooping crane
相关词
cranberry via German Low German Kraan egret heron stork

词源

词源 1
From Middle English crane, from Old English cran (“crane”), from Proto-West Germanic *kran, *kranō, from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).
Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Low German Kroon (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.
词源 2
From Middle English crane, cranee, from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin crānium.
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