英语词汇“crank”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

noun | verb

crankcrank1 /kræŋk/ noun [countable]

ETYMOLOGYcrank¹

Origin: Old English cranc

1a handle on a piece of equipment, that you turn in order to move something2informal someone who easily gets angry or annoyed with people SYN grouch3informal someone who has unusual ideas and behaves strangely SYN eccentric: It wasn’t only cranks who were interested in this idea.

noun | verb

crankcrank2 (also crank up) verb [transitive] spoken

VERB TABLE

crank

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	crank
	he, she, it	cranks
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	cranked
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have cranked
	he, she, it	has cranked
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had cranked
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will crank
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have cranked

Continuous Form
Present	I	am cranking
	he, she, it	is cranking
	you, we, they	are cranking
Past	I, he, she, it	was cranking
	you, we, they	were cranking
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been cranking
	he, she, it	has been cranking
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been cranking
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be cranking
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been cranking

1to make something move by turning a crank: He cranked the engines, which sprang into life.2to increase the level of sound, heat, cold, etc. produced by a machine: They had it cranked up pretty loud. Don cranked the thermostat to 80.crank something ↔ out phrasal verb informal to produce a lot of something very quickly SYN churn out: He cranks out two novels a year.