Crate

Definition: Crate

Crate

Noun

1. A rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping.

2. The quantity contained in a crate.

Verb

1. Put into a crate; as for protection; "crate the paintings before shipping them to the museum".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crate" was first used: 1397. (references)

Synonym: Crate

Receptacle

Vessel, vase, bushel, barrel; canister, jar; pottle, basket, pannier, buck-basket, hopper, maund, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket, whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle, utensil; brazier; cuspidor, spittoon.

Vehicle

Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.

Crosswords: Crate

Here This big fella was sleeping in a crate at Cisco's junkyard. (Lone Star; writing credit: John Sayles)

We're going to deliver this crate like professionals. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

By the crate full, and we greatful (Request Line; performing artist: Black Eyed Peas)

The Egg Crate Wallop (1919)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 3 Crate Sherlock Holmes (Cassette Crates) (reference)

• Crate Craft : Easy-to-Make Furniture and Accessories you Can Build Quickly and Inexpensively (reference)

• Crate Training Your Dog (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, A-267) (reference)

• Fruit Crate Art (reference)

• Full-Color Fruit Crate Labels (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Classical Crate [BOX SET] (reference)

• Electric Crate Digger (reference)

• Orange Crate Art (reference)

• Straight From the Crate 1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• COCA COLA 841-119 Coca-Cola Crate Style Clock Radio (reference)

• Rack 10622 22U Crate Customer Pays Freight (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Bucket Boss Brand 04010 Crate Boss with Crate (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Figure 18. Crates of bottles for water samples designated to study dissolved oxygen. The upper crate contains 15 bottles while the lower crate contains 24. Such crates have been used to store bottles with ground glass stoppers for dissolved oxygen samples since the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Pears in a crate. Credit: USDA.

Fruit pickers emptying sacks of peaches into a crate, Delta County, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

Green peas in crate. Nampa, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

Skidding crate of cabbages in warehouse. Alamo, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Inspecting crate of cherries at fruit market. Benton Harbor, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Packing carrots into boxes. Icing is accomplished by dropping shaved ice from chute into crate. Elsa, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mexican cantaloupe pickers at 5:00 a.m. Imperial Valley, California. Gang labor harvest on contract by the crate. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rehabilitation borrower packing crate of eggs which will be shipped to Chicago. Chippewa County, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Baldwin piano being unpacked from crate and moved into the White House(?), 1921(?). Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

Cargoes handled Phuket port are mainly metal crate, mineral, petroleum coke, frozen fish, rubber, and latex product. (references)

Any shipment in a wood crate or wood pallet is subject to comply with standard NOM-EM-004-RECNAT-1996, which states that all products that are imported inside of a wood box or container or having wood packaging may be inspected at the point of entry to Mexico. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "crate": old crate. Additional references.

Beginning with "crate": crate-people.

Ending with "crate": beer-crate, egg-crate, milk-crate, orange-crate.

Albanian

kuti (box, canister, case, casket, container, receptacle, sandbank, Square, thriftbox, tray), arkë (box, box office, case, cash desk, cash register, cashbox, checkout, chest, coffer, hutch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قفص (cage, chest, coop, pen), ‏وضع في قفص, ‏صندوق (ark, bin, box, case, chest, container, fund, hutch, kitty, locker, rack, receiver, till). (various references)

Bulgarian 

щайга, кош (basket, gabion), кафез (birdcage, cage, safe), опаковам в щайги. (various references)

Chinese 

條板箱 , 板條箱 , 条板箱. (various references)

Czech

dopravní klec, bedna (bin, box, case, chest, container, goggle box), basa (bass, case, clink, contrabass, double bass, Nick). (various references)

Danish

tremmekurv (hamper), tremmekasse (cattle crush, crate with slatted sides and open tops, crush, hamper, holding crate), kasse (box, case, cash, cash in hand, cash liquidity, cash on hand, casing, chest, compartment, container, hopper, housing, lug boxes, picking boxes, saladin box), indhegnet passage for kvæg (cattle crush, crush, holding crate). (various references)

Dutch

krat (cradle, crate with slatted sides and open tops, flat, plant tray, seedling tray, tray), houten bakje (hamper), box (stall). (various references)

Farsi 

صندوقی که چینی یاشیشه دران میگذارند, صندوقه , درجعبه گذاردن . (various references)

Finnish

laatikko (box, case, casserole, chest, drawer). (various references)

French

cageot. (various references)

German

Lattenkiste, kasten (barn, barrack, bin, box, cabinet, case, castes, chest, coffer, drawer, goal, heavyweight, hutch, showcase, tub). (various references)

Greek 

καφάσι (lattice, skep). (various references)

Hebrew 

תב�" (box, case, chest, tidy), אר�'ז (box, case, chest). (various references)

Hungarian

lécláda, ládakeret, láda (bin, boot, box, case, chest, hutch). (various references)

Indonesian

peti kayu. (various references)

Italian

gabbia (cage, hutch, laboratory, lavatory, reinforcement, well). (various references)

Korean 

크� �이트. (various references)

Manx

kishtey (box, box container, carton, case, casket, chest, cist, pot, pyx, rock pool, suitcase, trunk), cur ayns kishtey (box), cur ayns cleeah vocs, cleeah-vocs. (various references)

Norwegian

kasse (cashier's stand, fund, money box, money-box, till). (various references)

Pig Latin

atecray

Portuguese

cesto grande, grade (drag, dunnage, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grill, grille, harrow, lattice, rail, railing, screen), gaiola de retenção (cattle crush, crush, holding crate), engradar, engradado, encaixotar (box, encase). (various references)

Romanian

coş mare, maşinã (bus, car, engine, frame, machine, motor, motor car, passenger car), ladã (box, case, chest, coffer, trunk), avion (aeroplane, air plane, aircraft, airplane, flyer, plane). (various references)

Russian 

упаковочная клеть, самолет (acft aircraft, aeroplane, air liner, aircraft, airplane, flying machine, plane, skywriter, vessel), рама стекольщика. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sanduk (box, chest, hull, hutch, locker, trunk). (various references)

Spanish

jaula (birdcage, cage, calaboose, hutch, jail, lock up, mew), canasta (basket, canasta, hamper). (various references)

Swedish

spjällåda, packkorg. (various references)

Turkish

sandıklamak, sandık (ark, box, chest, coffer, packing case, soapbox), kasaya yerleştirmek, kasa (case, cash desk, cashbox, cashier's desk, cashier's office, casing, chest, coffer, desk, Peter, register, safe, strongbox, till, vaulting horse), küfelemek, küfe (basket, dosser, pannier), büyük sepet. (various references)

Ukrainian

рама скляра, пакувати у ящики, пакувальна клітка, дранка (batten, clapboard, lathering). (various references)

Vietnamese 

còn nhiều kẽ hở. (various references)

barag. (various references)

caveam, cratis. (various references)

krat. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crate": crated, crater, cratered, cratering, craterlet, craterlets, craterlike, craters, crates. (additional references)

Words ending with "crate": consecrate, deconsecrate, desecrate, execrate, involucrate, picrate, reconsecrate, recrate, uncrate. (additional references)

Words containing "crate": bureaucratese, bureaucrateses, consecrated, consecrates, deconsecrated, deconsecrates, desecrated, desecrater, desecraters, desecrates, execrated, execrates, intercrater, picrated, picrates, reconsecrated, reconsecrates, recrated, recrates, unconsecrated, uncrated, uncrates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acarte, caate, carate, carta, cartae, catay, categ, catex, catte, Cawte, Clrtap, coate, coatee, corlate, Coryate, crabe, crace, cract, crae, crage, Crait, craite, crale, crat, craten, creet, creta, Creti, crife, crite, criti, Crito, Critz, crote, crotte, Crotti, crta, Crute, frate, Karte, krate, Krete, krite, Mcdata, scorate, scrate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: caret, carte, cater, react, recta, trace.

-1 letter: acre, care, cart, cate, race, rate, tace, tare, tear.

-2 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, ear, eat, era, eta, rat, rec, ret, tae, tar, tea.

-3 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta.

+1 letter: acuter, canter, carate, carets, carnet, carpet, carted, cartel, carter, cartes, caster, caters, centra, cerate, claret, coater, crated, crater, crates, create, curate, ecarte, nectar, preact, rachet, racket, reacts, recant, recast, rectal, redact, retack, tacker, tanrec, traced, tracer, traces, trance.

+2 letters: abreact, accrete, acerate, actress, arcuate, article, batcher, bearcat, brachet, bracket, bracted, cabaret, canters, capture, carates, carnets, carpets, cartage, cartels, carters, casters, catcher, cateran, catered, caterer, cattery, cattier, cautery, centare, centaur, central, cerated, cerates, ceratin, certain, chanter, chapter, charted, charter, chaster, chatter, cheater, cigaret, cirrate, citrate, clarets, clatter, coaster, coaters, cordate, crafted, craters, created, creates, creatin, creator, cremate, crenate, crestal, cristae, curated, curates, curtate, detract, ecartes, enactor, erotica, erratic, exacter, exactor, excreta, extract, facture, fracted, furcate, hatcher, hectare, locater, matcher, nectars, nectary, ocreate, outrace, overact, paretic, patcher, picrate, plectra, preacts, precast, rachets, raciest, rackets, rackety, racquet, ratches, ratchet, reacted, reactor, recants, recasts, rechart, recheat, recital, recrate, redacts, redcoat, reenact, refract, rematch, repatch, restack, retacks, reteach, retrace, retrack, retract, scanter, scarlet, scarted, scatter, sectary, spectra, stacker, stearic, tackers, tackier, tackler, tacrine, tanrecs, teacart, teacher, terrace, theriac, tracers, tracery, trachea, trachle, tracked, tracker, traduce, traject, tranced, trances, tranche, treacle, treacly, uncrate, watcher, yachter.