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• crank|case — «KRANGK KAYS», noun. a heavy, metal case forming the bottom part of an internal combustion engine. The crankcase of a gasoline engine contains lubricating oil and encloses the crankshaft, connecting rods, and other parts …   Useful english dictionary

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• Crank (mechanism) — A crank is an arm attached at right angles to a rotating shaft by which reciprocating motion is imparted to or received from the shaft. It is used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. The arm may be …   Wikipedia

• Crank (person) — Crank is a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.[1] A cranky belief is so wildly at variance with commonly accepted belief as to be ludicrous. Cranks… …   Wikipedia

• Crank–Nicolson method — In numerical analysis, the Crank–Nicolson method is a finite difference method used for numerically solving the heat equation and similar partial differential equations.[1] It is a second order method in time, implicit in time, and is numerically …   Wikipedia

• case — Synonyms and related words: Bible truth, Smyth sewing, abessive, ablative, absolute fact, accepted fact, accusative, action, actual fact, adessive, admitted fact, afghan, alien, allative, ammunition box, anyhow, anyway, apoplectic, approximative …   Moby Thesaurus

• crank — I verb you crank the engine by hand crank up Syn: start, turn (over), get going II noun they re nothing but a bunch of cranks Syn: eccentric, oddity, madman/madwoman, lunatic; informal oddball, freak, weirdo, crackpot …   Thesaurus of popular words

• case — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. instance, situation, plight; sheath, scabbard, holster; portfolio; suit, action, litigation; argument, proposition; box, container, carton, casket, cabinet; bag, suitcase, handbag, grip, valise. See… …   English dictionary for students

• crank — Synonyms and related words: L, Tartar, abnormal, aficionado, alien, angle, angle off, anomalous, apex, bar, beam, bear, bee, bellyacher, bend, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, boom, boutade, brainstorm, branch, branks, buff, bug, cant, cant hook,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• nut case — noun a whimsically eccentric person • Syn: ↑crackpot, ↑crank, ↑nut, ↑fruitcake, ↑screwball • Derivationally related forms: ↑screwball (for: ↑screwball) …   Useful english dictionary

• head case — ▶ noun (informal) MANIAC, lunatic, madman, madwoman; informal loony, nut, nutcase, fruitcake, crank, crackpot; Brit. informal nutter; N. Amer. informal screwball, cra …   Useful english dictionary