to crane
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3.7
- verb
- /kreɪn/
:
levantar con una grúa
- The construction crew will crane the heavy steel beams into place tomorrow.
- crane the camera
- crane up to reveal
Examples
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The workers carefully crane the large boulder onto the flatbed truck.
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How long before we can start craning it out?
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We start to crane up, higher and higher until we clear the house.
Fiction book (1997) -
Camera begins to crane up the wall.
Fiction book (1996) -
We crane down and pick up Neil's Town Car.
Fiction book (1995) -
We crane down and eventually land on a side street with the amusement park looming in the background.
Fiction book (2002) -
The orchestra swells as we crane up to the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan beyond.
Fiction book (2002) -
We crane down from a Chinese banner that stretches across two tenements.
Fiction book (2002) -
And so they were craning them in and they burst pipes for the neighborhood by craning them in.
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Where J-Bone runs around and up the stairs as we crane up with him and past the front of the apartment to see Lucky and Angel, perfectly framed in a window, arguing up a storm.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
553
1.0
To raise something higher by hand or with a machine
79
4.7
To lift heavy things using ropes, pulleys, or a machine
32
5.2
To raise a car or other vehicle with a lifting tool
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5.9
To pull something up using a machine with a rope or cable
Antonyms
Compounds
5
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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Surface Forms
Etymology
Crane as a verb meaning to move or lift with a crane comes directly from the machine's name; to crane something is to lift or place it using that large machine. So when workers say they are 'craning' a beam, they mean they are using a crane to move it into place.