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CRANKED

Definition: CRANKED

CRANKED

Adjective

1. Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: CRANKED

Specialty definitions using "CRANKED": swan-necked tool. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CRANKED

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Usage Frequency: CRANKED

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)70.37%1980,337
Lexical Verb (past participle)29.63%8124,375
                    Total100.00%27N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: CRANKED

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CRANKED

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: CRANKED

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

   

Portuguese

  

dobrado (bent, bow, plication). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

коленчатый. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zglavkast, zavojit (corkscrew, spiral, tortuous, twisting, winding). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dado vuelta a. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vevad. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

колінчастий (angular, articulate, kneed, toggle), зігнутий (applied, arched, bent, bowed, crook, crooked, curly, curved, deflected). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CRANKED

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).

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Rhyming with "CRANKED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CRANKED" (pronounced kra"ngkt)
5-r a" ng k tfranked, ranked.
4-a" ng k tbanked, blanked, flanked, outflanked, spanked, tanked, thanked, yanked.
3-ng k tadjunct, 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.

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Anagrams: CRANKED

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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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