crank

1. (dialectal)An ailment, ache.

2. (informal)An ill-tempered or nasty person.

   Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.

   a bad-tempered person

3. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;

4. A fit of temper or passion.

5. (UK, dated, informal)A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.

   John is a crank because he talks to himself.

6. (informal)An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories.

   That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.

7. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

   I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.

   Kurbel

   кривоши́пkrivošíp

8. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.

   Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.

   Give it a forceful crank.

   Kurbeln

9. (US, slang)Synonym of methamphetamine.

   Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.

10. (rare)A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

11. (slang)The penis.

    Miesepeter, Sonderling, Spinner

    чуда́кčudák, фрикfrik

12. (archaic, slang)A baseball fan.

1. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

   ruЧеловека с новой идеей считают чудаком - до тех пор, пока он не преуспевает воплотить идею в жизнь.

   deEine Person mit einer neuen Idee ist ein komischer Kauz, bis die Idee Erfolg hat.

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2. Can you crank up the heat?

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3. Tom cranked up the volume.

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4. Crank up the heater.

   ruВключи обогреватель.

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5. Tom cranked up the music.

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