crates

Noun

crate (plural crates)

1. A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.

   Synonyms:

   packing case

2. (derogatory, mildly, slang) 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

   Synonyms:

   banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crock, flivver, gas guzzler, hooptie, jalopy

3. 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

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