English words for 'One who cranes.'
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noun
noun
- A young crane (bird).
- (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
- (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
- (nautical, historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
- (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
- A young male horse.
- a young male horse under the age of four
verb
noun
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- (slang, especially African-American Vernacular) The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- (slang) Crystal meth.
- (metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- (nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- (slang) A person's face.
- (nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
- any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
verb
noun
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
- (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
- A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
- a state of economic prosperity
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
intj
verb
- (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
- (of a vehicle) To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.
- (transitive, slang) To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
- (transitive) To make (something) boom.
- (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
- grow vigorously
- hit with great force
- make a deep hollow sound
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
noun
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- (Singapore, by extension) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
noun
noun
- Synonym of crawler crane.
- (Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
- A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
- (sports) A crawl swimmer.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
- A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
- A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
noun
noun
- The larva of certain crane flies.
- Any of several brightly coloured tropical fishes, of the family Balistidae, including the filefish and the triggerfish; leatherfish.
- Any of several Atlantic fishes, of the genus Oligoplites, that have a leathery skin; leatherjack.
- any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales
- any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes
- tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies
verb
noun
- Alternative form of cran (“measure of herrings”).
- (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
- An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
- A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
- Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
- (US dialectal) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
- A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
- large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world
- lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis
verb
- (mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
- (nautical, transitive) to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.
- (nautical, of sailing vessels, intransitive) To bring the ship's head up closer to the wind. (Alternatively luff up)
- (nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
- sail close to the wind
- flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides
noun
- (nautical) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
- (nautical) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
- (nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
- (nautical) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
- the act of sailing close to the wind
- (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast
noun
noun
noun
noun
- One who nests.
- One who forms a strong attachment to their home.
- (US, historical) A person who intends to settle in an area without permanent residents; a settler, as distinct from an explorer or pioneer.
- a bird that has built (or is building) a nest
- someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
noun
noun
- a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
- someone who travels about selling their wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
- (Singapore) A seller of food in a hawker centre.
- A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
- Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
- Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
noun
- One who glides.
- A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
- A kind of garden swing.
- A pilot of glider aircraft.
- (by extension) Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
- (cellular automata) In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
- Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
- Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
- Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
- aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces
noun
noun
- (nautical, construction) A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.
- (nautical) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
- a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat)
noun
- Synonym of water crane.
- A framework or initiative that focuses on water resources in sustainable development and climate action.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, pillar.; a pillar formed of water.
- A power-generation mechanism that makes use of the pressure differential created by changing water levels due to tide action, which is used to drive turbines or pumps.
- A waterspout (whirlwind).
noun
noun
- A young crane (bird).
- (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
- (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
- (nautical, historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
- (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
- A young male horse.
- a young male horse under the age of four
verb
noun
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- (slang, especially African-American Vernacular) The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- (slang) Crystal meth.
- (metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- (nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- (slang) A person's face.
- (nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
- any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
verb
noun
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
- (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
- A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
- a state of economic prosperity
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
intj
verb
- (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
- (of a vehicle) To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.
- (transitive, slang) To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
- (transitive) To make (something) boom.
- (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
- grow vigorously
- hit with great force
- make a deep hollow sound
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
noun
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- (Singapore, by extension) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
noun
noun
- Synonym of crawler crane.
- (Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
- A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
- (sports) A crawl swimmer.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
- A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
- A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
noun
noun
- The larva of certain crane flies.
- Any of several brightly coloured tropical fishes, of the family Balistidae, including the filefish and the triggerfish; leatherfish.
- Any of several Atlantic fishes, of the genus Oligoplites, that have a leathery skin; leatherjack.
- any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales
- any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes
- tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies
noun
noun
noun
noun
- One who nests.
- One who forms a strong attachment to their home.
- (US, historical) A person who intends to settle in an area without permanent residents; a settler, as distinct from an explorer or pioneer.
- a bird that has built (or is building) a nest
- someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
noun
noun
- a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
- someone who travels about selling their wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
- (Singapore) A seller of food in a hawker centre.
- A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
- Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
- Someone who breeds and trains hawks and other falcons; a falconer.
noun
- One who glides.
- A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.
- A kind of garden swing.
- A pilot of glider aircraft.
- (by extension) Any spaceship in a cellular automaton, especially one which exhibits glide reflection.
- (cellular automata) In the Game of Life, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly that glide on out-held wings while flying, such as the common glider, Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.
- Synonym of glide (“cap affixed to base of legs of furniture”).
- Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
- Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the marsupial gliding possums of Australia.
- aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces
noun
noun
- (nautical, construction) A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.
- (nautical) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
- a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat)
noun
- Synonym of water crane.
- A framework or initiative that focuses on water resources in sustainable development and climate action.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, pillar.; a pillar formed of water.
- A power-generation mechanism that makes use of the pressure differential created by changing water levels due to tide action, which is used to drive turbines or pumps.
- A waterspout (whirlwind).
verb
noun
- Alternative form of cran (“measure of herrings”).
- (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
- An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
- A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
- Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
- (US dialectal) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
- A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
- large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world
- lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis
verb
- (mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
- (nautical, transitive) to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.
- (nautical, of sailing vessels, intransitive) To bring the ship's head up closer to the wind. (Alternatively luff up)
- (nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
- sail close to the wind
- flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides
noun
- (nautical) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
- (nautical) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
- (nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
- (nautical) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
- the act of sailing close to the wind
- (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast