Plural of crank
regular plural
The plural of crank is cranks.
Forms of crank
| Singular | crank /kɹænk/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | cranks |
| Countable | countable |
Cranks in a sentence
- The raw meat cranks are in dead earnest.1901 July 19, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 318
- Although an operator presses the button, the actuation is done by an immense series of levers and cranks.From the entry actuation
- Cranks like Rousseau made solitude glamorous, but sensible people agreed that it was really terrible.1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry solitude
- On the Ashtabula type one-piece crankset, the two cranks and spindle are one unit.1972, Richard Ballantine, Richard's Bicycle Book, New York: Ballantine Books, page 186. From the entry Ashtabula
- Turn the engine so that one of the cranks is about ten degrees beyond the top deadcenter.1911, Oil Field Engineering: (1911) - Volume 13, page 519. From the entry deadcenter
Meaning of crank
- adjective Hard; difficult.
- adjective Strange; weird; odd.
- adjective Bent; twisted; crooked; distorted; out of repair.
Questions about the plural of crank
- What is the plural of crank?
- The plural of crank is cranks.
- Is crank countable?
- Crank is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crank (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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