crate
/kɹeɪt/
crate noun: a large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
Noun
crate (plural crates)
- A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
- Synonyms:
- packing case
- A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
- They shook the head of the unconscious pilot and when the latter opened his eyes, blinking wildly, the other members of the family lifted up the tail of the overturned crate sufficiently high enough to enable the dazed pilot, after releasing his belt, to fall out of the cockpit head first and...1936 November, Joseph R. James, “More Gates Air Circus Antics”, in Popular Aviation
- I will make this box of electronics and computer chips fly like no other spaceship has ever flown. Mission Control wanted to see what this crate could do.2010, Gillian Coleby, Knocking on the Moonlit Door, page 99
- Synonyms:
- banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crock, flivver, gas guzzler, hooptie, jalopy
- In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
- And Rust never compiles modules separately, even if they're in separate files: when you build a Rust crate, you're recompiling all of its modules.2017, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 166
Verb
crate (third-person singular simple present crates, present participle crating, simple past and past participle crated)
- To put into a crate.
- He also testified that the reason he crated the one machine and boxed the other was because one machine was stronger and the other frailer, and that made it dangerous to crate it.1917, “Edwin B. Stimpson Co. v. Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co.”, in New York Supplement, volume 164, page 71
- Then, in 1941, decision was reached between the Chungking and American authorities to transport these fossils to the United States for safekeeping, and they were crated and moved to a warehouse in Ch’in-huang-tao, a small port city northeast of Peking, into the custody of the U.S. Marines.1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 51
- To keep in a crate.
crate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
crate in Tamil
- கூண்டு, கோழிக்கூண்டு, பிரப்பங்கூடை, சிப்பக்கட்டுமான வரிச்சல் அழிப்பெட்டி, அழிக்கூடையில் வைத்தடக்கு
crate in Urdu
- چھابا, کھوکھا, ڈبہ, بکسہ
crate in Bengali
- কাঠের, প্লাস্টিকের বড়ো বাক্স
crate in Telugu
- క్రేట్
More languagesFewer languages
- crate in Malayalam
- വളളിക്കൊട്ട, ചട്ടക്കൂട്, കൂട, വീഞ്ഞപ്പെട്ടി
- crate in Kannada
- ಹೆಡಿಗೆ, ಚಟ್ಟ, ಕ್ರೇಟು, ಅಡೆ ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆ
- crate in Gujarati
- ક્રેટ, ક્રેટ કરવા
- crate in Odia
- କ୍ରେଟ୍, କ୍ରେଟ, କ୍ରେଟ୍ କରିବା
- crate in Nepali
- क्रेट, क्रेट गर्न
- crate in Arabic
- فِنْطَاس finṭās
- crate in Indonesian
- krat
- crate in Thai
- ลัง lang
- crate in Vietnamese
- két, thùng
Examples of crate in a sentence
- Among the arrests is a man charged with possession of stolen goods, to wit: 50 beer crates.
- We'll have to pay the stowage if we want our crate back.
- The crate contains six 12-btl cases of red wine and eight 24-packs of beer.
Synonyms of crate
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Forms of crate
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | crates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | crates |
| present participle | crating |
| past participle | crated |
| past | crated |
Origin of crate
From Dutch krat (“crate, large box, basket”), from Middle Dutch cratte (“basketware, mold”), from Old Dutch *kratta, *kratto (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kratjô, *krattijô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gretH- (“plaiting, wicker, basket, cradle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bind, twist, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow”), German Krätze (“basket”), Old English cræt, ceart (“cart, wagon, chariot”), Old Norse kartr (“wagon”), modern English cart. Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”). Alternatively from Latin crātis (“wickerwork”), perhaps from the same PIE root.
Words formed from crate
Phrases with crate
Words that rhyme with crate
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- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
Questions about crate
- What does crate mean?
- Crate means a large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
- What is crate in Tamil?
- Crate in Tamil is கூண்டு, கோழிக்கூண்டு, பிரப்பங்கூடை. See Crate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is crate?
- Crate can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce crate?
- Crate is pronounced /kɹeɪt/.
- What is the plural of crate?
- The plural of crate is crates.
Words near crate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crate (page history and authors); crate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crate (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crate (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crate (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crate (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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