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Definition: CRANKED |
CRANKEDAdjective1. Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle. |
Crosswords: CRANKED |
| Specialty definitions using "CRANKED": swan-necked tool. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CRANKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 70.37% of the time. "CRANKED" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 70.37% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 29.63% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CRANKED": cranked portion of a shaft ♦ right angle cranked tool. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CRANKED": cranked-up. | |
Ending with "CRANKED": half-cranked, hand-cranked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hand cranked ice cream maker | 9 |
cranked hand radio | 8 |
cranked flashlight hand | 5 |
blender cranked hand | 3 |
cranked generator hand | 2 |
cranked radio wind | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CRANKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكرنك. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | извит (arched, bended, crooked, curly, curve, curved, falcate, falciform, flexous, hooked, incurved, kinky, meandering, round, tortile, tortuous, twisted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "曲柄启动. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vinkelelektrode med forsat spids (cranked offset electrode), vinkelektrode (cranked electrode), sidestikstål (right angle cranked tool), sidestål (cranked tool), overgangslaske (cranked fish-plate, spliced bar), ombøjet stikstål (cranked parting and grooving tool), krumtap (crank, crank lever, crank s, cranked portion of a shaft, handle, overhung crank), knækvinge (cranked wing), forkroeppet aksel (crank shaft, cranked axle, crankshaft, crank-shaft, driving shaft, main shaft), forkrobbet elektrode (double cranked electrode, swan necked electrode), forkrøppet spole (cranked coil), forkrøppet rulleskærsarm (cranked coulter arm), forkrøpning (crank, cranked portion of a shaft, crimp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steel van het draaibare kouter (cranked coulter arm), overgangsspoel (cranked coil), overgangslasplaat (cranked fish-plate, spliced bar), krukelleboog (crank, cranked portion of a shaft), krukas (crank shaft, cranked axle, crankshaft, crank-shaft, driving shaft, main shaft), knikvleugel (cranked wing), kamerbeitel (right angle cranked tool), geknikto vleugel (cranked wing), gebogen ruwbeitel (cranked tool), gebogen puntlaselektrode met excentrisch lasvlak (cranked offset electrode), gebogen puntlaselektrode (cranked electrode), gebogen insteekbeitel (cranked parting and grooving tool), dubbelgebogen puntlaselektrode (double cranked electrode, swan necked electrode). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tasonvaihtovyyhti (cranked coil), taitesiipi (cranked wing), koukkuterä (right angle cranked tool), käyrä terä (cranked tool), käyrä pistoterä (cranked parting and grooving tool), käyrä pistosorvausterä (cranked parting and grooving tool), käyrä katkaisuterä (cranked parting and grooving tool). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | démarré la manivelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | krümmte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κεκαμμένο εργαλείο τόρνευσης εγκοπών και απότμησης (cranked parting and grooving tool), κάθετα κεκαμένο εργαλείο πλάνισης σφηναυλάκων (right angle cranked tool), συνδετικός αμφιδέτης (cranked fish-plate, spliced bar), γωνιά ενός άξονα (crank, cranked portion of a shaft), γωνιακά κεκαμένο εργαλείο πλάνισης (cranked tool), μικτό πηνίο (cranked coil), πρασανατολιζόμενο στέλεχος μαχαιριού (cranked coulter arm), ηλεκτρόδιο σημείου διπλά λυγισμένο σε αντίθετες κατευθύνσεις σε σχήμα λαιμού κύκνου (double cranked electrode, swan necked electrode), λυγισμένο έκκεντρο ηλεκτρόδιο σημείου (cranked offset electrode), λυγισμένο ηλεκτρόδιο σημείου (cranked electrode), αγκωνωτός άξονας (cranked axle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fogantyús. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | punta d'elettrodo curva eccentrica (cranked offset electrode), punta d'elettrodo curva (cranked electrode), punta d'elettrodo a doppia curvatura (double cranked electrode, swan necked electrode), punta d elettrodo deviata (double cranked electrode, swan necked electrode), matassa con testate a gradini (cranked coil), gomito d'albero (crank, cranked portion of a shaft), gomito (crank, elbow, sharp bend), ganascia di raccordo (cranked fish-plate, spliced bar), asta orientabile di coltro (cranked coulter arm), asse a gomito (cranked axle), ala piegata a gomito (cranked wing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 크랭크를 부착하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ankedcray dobrado (bent, bow, plication). (various references) коленчатый. (various references) zglavkast, zavojit (corkscrew, spiral, tortuous, twisting, winding). (various references) dado vuelta a. (various references) vevad. (various references) колінчастий (angular, articulate, kneed, toggle), зігнутий (applied, arched, bent, bowed, crook, crooked, curly, curved, deflected). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CRANKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cranbeads, cranker, Crankley, crankup, creaunce, dranked, kranko. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CRANKED" (pronounced kra"ngkt) |
| 5 | -r a" ng k t | franked, ranked. |
| 4 | -a" ng k t | banked, blanked, flanked, outflanked, spanked, tanked, thanked, yanked. |
| 3 | -ng k t | adjunct, blinked, debunked, defunct, distinct, dunked, extinct, flunked, hoodwinked, indistinct, instinct, interlinked, junked, linked, plunked, precinct, sacrosanct, succinct, winked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: arcked, canker, carked, cedarn, craned, dacker, dancer, danker, darken, nacred, narked, racked, ranked. | |
-2 letters: acned, acred, arced, cadre, caked, caned, caner, cared, cedar, crake, crane, crank, creak, dance, denar, drake, drank, dreck, knead, nacre, naked, raced, raked, rance, redan. | |
-3 letters: aced, acne, acre, cade, cake, cane, card, care, cark, carn, dace, dank, dare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: cankered, crankled. | |
+2 letters: dackering, knackered, ransacked, uncracked. | |
+3 letters: backhander. | |
+4 letters: backhanders, blackhander, unbracketed. | |
+5 letters: backgrounded, backgrounder, backwardness, blackhanders, crackbrained, handkerchief, sidetracking, stickhandler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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