| 单词 | crate |
| 释义 | crate (once / 3088 pages) nv A crate is a wooden container that's made for transporting or shipping goods. Your uncle might send you a crate of Florida oranges for a Christmas gift. Boxes made of wood that are filled with goods and loaded on trucks, ships, or planes are called crates, and to fill them is also to crate. Groceries are often shipped or delivered in crates, like crates of eggs, milk crates, or a crate of bananas. The amount of some item that fits in one crate is also called a crate — "The market ordered seven crates of ice cream for the Fourth of July weekend." WORD FAMILYcrate: crated, crateful, crates, crating, uncrate+/uncrate: uncrated, uncrating USAGE EXAMPLESAlso consider: “A Dark Crate,” “Samson and Delilah” Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) "And we were buying crates with chicken legs from the United States. So we tried everything." BBC(Dec 24, 2016) These days it is filled with deliverymen pushing crates of vegetables for long blocks from their trucks stranded on 56th Street to restaurant kitchens. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1n a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping Hypo|Hyper packing box, packing case a large crate in which goods are packed for shipment or storage soapboxa crate for packing soap box a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid 2n the quantity contained in a crate Syn|Hyper crateful containerful the quantity that a container will hold 3v put into a crate; as for protection crate the paintings before shipping them to the museum Ant|Hyper uncrate remove from the crate case, encase, incase enclose in, or as if in, a case |
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