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Definition: Crankcase |
CrankcaseNoun1. Housing for a crankshaft. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | That part of a reciprocating compressor in which the crankshaft is housed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Crankcase |
| English words defined with "crankcase": radial engine, rotary engine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crankcase": AUTOMOBILE-SELF-SERVE-SERVICE-STATION ATTENDANT, AUTOMOBILE-SERVICE-STATION ATTENDANT ♦ car cleaner, car porter, cashier, automobile services ♦ filling-station attendant ♦ gas tender, gasateria attendant, gas-station attendant ♦ heavy duty oils ♦ LUBRICATION SERVICER, lubrication technician ♦ PORTER, USED-CAR LOT ♦ SAE VISCOSITY NUMBER, service-station attendant, station attendant ♦ used-car-lot attendant. (references) |
| "Crankcase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crankcase" is used about 14 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crankcase": crankcase lower half. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "crankcase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 齿轴箱. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | krumtaphus (casing, crank chamber, gear case, safety guard, sump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | carter (casing, crank chamber, gear case, safety guard, sump), omhulsel (capsule, casing, crank chamber, enclosure, envelope, envelopes, gear case, safety guard, sheath, straw envelopes(for bottles), sump), krukkast (casing, crank chamber, gear case, safety guard, sump), krukhuis (casing, crank chamber, gear case, safety guard, sump), kast (cabinet, closet, cupboard, sideboard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محل اتصال میل لنگ , جای میل لنگ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kampikammio (casing, crank chamber, gear case, safety guard, sump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carter de moteur (crank chamber), carter (crank chamber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kurbelgehäuse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάρτερ (casing, crank chamber, crankcase lower half, gear case, oil pan, oil stamp, oil sump, safety guard, sump), στροφαλοθάλαμοσ, προστατευτικό περίβλημα (calotte, casing, containment, containment building, crank chamber, gear case, protective dome, safety guard, sump), προφυλακτήρας ασφαλείας (casing, crank chamber, gear case, safety guard, sump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | karter, forgattyúszekrény, forgattyúház. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | custodia (care, casing, custody, guard, keeping, safekeeping, sleeve, slipcase, ward), cassetta degli ingranaggi (casing, crank chamber, gear case, safety guard, sump), carter (sump), scatola (box, can, canister, case, chest, tin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coodagh croymmane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ankcasecray carter (casing, crank chamber, gear case, safety guard, sump). (various references) картер двигателя (crank case). (various references) motoska kućica, karter. (various references) cárter (banjo, sump). (various references) vevhus (casing, crank chamber, gear case, safety guard, sump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crankcase": crankcases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-k-n-r-s" | |
-2 letters: askance, cancers, cankers, caracks, carcase, ransack. | |
-3 letters: anears, arcane, arecas, arenas, caesar, cancer, caners, canker, carack, casern, cracks, crakes, cranes, cranks, creaks, nacres, rances, sacker, scarce, screak. | |
-4 letters: acnes, acres, anear, ansae, araks, areas, areca, arena, asker, cacas, caeca, cakes, caner, canes, cares, carks, carns, carse, crack, crake, crane, crank, creak, earns, escar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-k-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: crankcases. | |
+3 letters: safecracking. | |
+4 letters: safecrackings. | |
+5 letters: backscattering, counterattacks. | |
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