crane
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3.9
- noun
- /kreɪn/
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- And it's being hoisted with the crane up onto the generator housing.
- tower crane
- crane operator
- mobile crane
It looks like a bulldozer crane looking thing.
- It looks like a bulldozer crane looking thing.
- A whole lot of crane shots and very complicated stuff.
- One day I set out in Hong Kong to climb off a crane and jump into the harbour.
- Construction dust slow to replace emptiness, cranes overhead.
- The price of everything from the space at ports to cranes to crane operators to containers skyrockets.
- Can you check just briefly, what is the heaviest weight picked up by a by a crane or like.
Examples
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As the crane swung its arm, it carefully lowered the heavy equipment onto the flatbed truck.
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And here you can see the the crane holding up this module and getting ready to place it.
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Then bring the crane around front, all right?
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And this one comes with a crane and it actually moves.
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Where roads are available, a second mobile crane is used to raise the tower crane.
Academic text (1992) -
For Danny, he gestures at the huge crane in the construction site next door.
Fiction book (1993) -
A Post-Panamax crane can handle ships with up to 18 rows of containers across.
Academic text (2008) -
Some newer designs in cranes can lift four to six 20-foot containers at a time.
Academic text (2008) -
At Virginia's Old Dominion University, a crane lowers a maglev vehicle toward the guideway.
Academic text (2002) -
Vacuums and shovel cranes are used to unload these cargoes from the bulk carriers.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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3.2
A person or machine that raises heavy things like crates
A machine that raises heavy things like a crane or forklift
Compounds
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9.6
A large rare North American bird with white and black feathers and a loud trumpet call
A long thin fly with very long legs that looks like a large mosquito but does not bite
- Specialized
A machine in a warehouse that lifts and moves pallets under computer control
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Etymology
Crane (the machine) is named after the bird because its long arm looks 'like a crane's neck' when it reaches out to lift things. So a crane in construction is a large machine that lifts heavy objects with a long arm.