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Sentence Examples Have you ever been able to jump-start a car that seemed to crank OK but wouldn't start on its own? Their speed could be augmented by swinging a small chromium-plated crank handle located on the dashboard. At the moment, the closest most engine analysts get is taking average readings from the piston crank and the oil sump. I would like to replace the crank to get a 39 chainring up front, I just can't climb on the 42 like I did 20 years ago. Do you know if Shimano intends to offer 52 tooth chainrings for this crank anytime soon? The instrument panelmounted crank also actuated the variable camber as the pilot raised and lowered the landing gear. He needs to crank out an even better season if this young team hopes to climb in the standings. During the last 10 seconds of your 60-second recovery jog, crank up the speed for your next sprint. You can crank up the thrill factor by sleeping under canvas, with the wild sounds of the bush pressing in through the walls of your tent. At the nearby Desert Diner, dishes clatter as busboys set tables for the lunch crowd and crank the fireplace to a high blaze. With Shimano, I have never heard of either the BB or the crank breaking since the advent of the splined bottom bracket. Above the blade is a revolving crank handle, attached to a spiky grip which holds whatever you're spiralizing in place. In heavy air, you need to pull in the boom vang a little more, and in super heavy air, really crank it. Somehow, someway I'll crank out one of those previews, even though my heart won't be in it. When I crank up the volume for music, the last thing I want to hear is a loud boing telling me I have new email. The four sets of bobweights are then placed onto the crank, alternating at 90 degrees. The crank has bobweights attached to it to simulate the weight of the pistons. After the bobweights are made to be the same correct weight, they are attached to the crank pins. With a spin of the crank handle the engine turns over easily and off she rattles on her iron tyres. Pitch was the only axis of trim, and the control was mounted on the roof and activated by a horizontal crank. Show More Sentences The crank shaft turned the paddle shaft, which ultimately turned the paddle wheel. Sharp tines or prongs, operated by a foot pedal or hand crank, grip the weed and yank it out of the ground with a pulling or twisting motion. On its easiest level, it simply requires basic timing to crank a ball into the outfield or over a fence. But if you don't take the time to pamper thyself, you'll become less able to crank. A small battery-operated or crank radio is another must-have in your emergency kit. For some reason they have also chosen to crank the thumbscrews with an added splash of vindictiveness. Wartime models had only steel wheels, a magneto and hand crank, instead of a battery. So saying, he walked around to the front of the car and turned the crank until the automobile's engine roared to life. The result is your saddle height, measured from the middle of the crank axle, along the seat tube, to the top of the saddle. Another commonly abused amphetamine is methylamphetamine, also known as speed, ice, crank and crystal meth. The back and forth movement of each piston was translated into rotary motion by a crank shaft. Now that prices are kicking booty, let's crank open the oil spigots and make up for lost time! Ever since I rebuilt my computer, the first thing I look for when I start a game is the options menu so I can crank up the res. They also reproduce themselves, and the new cells also crank out interferon in massive amounts. He should attach the laser pointer as he originally described, leave the pedal firmly screwed into the crank and rotate the crank. With a pedal wrench turn the shaft while holding the bike, pedal, and crank steady. One of the challenges of crank grinding relates to clamping the workpiece in the chuck so that the crank pin can be cylindrically ground. Perched at the stern, where she is manning one of the winches used to crank the ropes that control the main sails, Souka looks uneasy. Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank. This being a manifesto, there are a few moments when almond sounds like a self-righteous crank. Show More Sentences Even as a raving crank, Joe has weird delusions of normalcy. The wonderful reign of Queen Elizabeth has everyone worried about what will happen when her crank of a son takes the throne. An uncomfortable urinary infection is going to feel way worse than those few minutes you spent trying to crank out your work. Rand's dad was a crotchety old crank who was never going to win the nomination, but Rand of course actually could. When I find the dial, I'm gonna crank it up to the red zone. The hammer was soon replaced by a magneto powered with a hand crank. You can operate an optical telegraph as used in the Napoleonic wars, crank up second world war field telephones and learn to read Morse and semaphore. You could pile a bunch of weight onto a barbell and crank out eight reps. Auto guys will then make up a bobweight of nuts and bolts equal to the rotating part which they add to the crank throws and that is then spun on a dynamic balance machine. Any excuse, dear reader, to stay home and crank up the Victrola. Also set in stone were the cylinder bore diameter, the block's minimum deck height, and the minimum distance from the crank centerline to the sump. That way, if someone rings up again, then we will know that it is a crank call. Mr McGlade doesn't believe it was a crank call and has reported the threats to police. The crank has a greater inertial mass, but, by using lightweight components elsewhere in the 999cc engine, there's no overall increase in weight. Step forward Alsop to put the cat among the pigeons and prompt the club's vocal band to crank it up a couple of notches. If you don't want to crank up the ol' smudge pot, Dykem is a nice substitute for simple fitting projects. In 1801, Symington patented a horizontal steam engine directly linked to a crank. The crank became common in Europe by the early 15th century, often seen in the works of those such as the German military engineer Konrad Kyeser. The first depictions of the compound crank in the carpenter's brace appear between 1420 and 1430 in various northern European artwork. Turning the crank winds the spring and a full winding will allow several hours of operation. Show More Sentences Each of their characters comes with their own abilities, from the standard double jumps, power kicks and crank turns to pigeon scaring sneezes. In the most common arrangement, an internal electrical generator is run by a mainspring, which is wound by a hand crank on the case. Dating to the second half of the 3rd century AD, the sawmill is the earliest known machine to combine a crank with a connecting rod. The crank and connecting rod mechanisms of the other two archaeologically attested sawmills worked without a gear train. The linear motion was directly converted into circular motion via a crank instead of using a more cumbersome beam. A 2 stroke engine produces power with every rotation of the crank, where as the 4 stroke engine produces power every second rotation. A Roman iron crank of yet unknown purpose dating to the 2nd century AD was excavated in Augusta Raurica, Switzerland. Around 1480, the early medieval rotary grindstone was improved with a treadle and crank mechanism. In this case a person's arm or leg serves as the connecting rod, applying reciprocating force to the crank. Therefore, if the crank is stationary and happens to be at one of these two points, it cannot be started moving by the connecting rod. The ram is typically actuated by a mechanical crank inside the column, though hydraulically actuated shapers are increasingly used. If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it. She'd like him jammed into her slot, like him to crank into her and she didn't think ignition would be far off if he did. Rotary bushings are commonly deployed in transfer line tooling applications such as automotive engine block cam and crank boring. Yet if you ask guys which Hollywood stars most turn their crank, you'd be surprised who their answers might be, and why. He was dismissed as a crank until his article was published. The product, the Trash Can Dumper, lifts containers 45 degrees above the dumpsters and works by a hand crank and push button. It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank. The unicycle frame comes with an epicycloid crank system and a magnetised main wheel to generate resistance. Before the marriage it was already obvious that he was a bit of a crank. Show More Sentences A crank is an arm attached at a right angle to a rotating shaft by which reciprocating motion is imparted to or received from the shaft. And once again, you need to untangle the cable and crank clockwise to wind it back onto the drum and raise the wing. They related to a feeder, a filleted cylinder, a roving can, the crank and comb and roller spinning. At these points in the crank's cycle, a force on the connecting rod causes no torque on the crank. Unlike earlier steam engines, the turbine produced rotary power rather than reciprocating power which required a crank and heavy flywheel. The walking beam, coupler and crank transform the linear movement of the piston into rotation of the output pulley. Like many successful academics, Hofstadter knew that it took a ritualized schedule that was never deviated from to crank out the necessary words. People say it is a hoax call or a crank call, but they tend to have a bit of humour to them. And hours wasted on a crank call could mean the difference between life or death. When I got the call from George Michael's people I thought it was a crank call but then the letter came and I couldn't believe it. It is possible that this is some sort of crank call but it is also just as possible that this could be genuine. It would be wrong for us to vote with our feet on something which may be just a crank call. It is possible that this is some sort of crank call, but it is also just as possible that this could be genuine. One problem that Murray faced was that James Pickard had already patented the crank and flywheel method of converting linear motion to circular motion. You'll have to rework the crank assembly to incorporate the changes. In China the crank was known, but remained dormant for at least nineteen centuries, its explosive potential for applied mechanics being unrecognized and unexploited. A crank axle is a crankshaft which also serves the purpose of an axle. The series is available as a gear-driven crank rewind model or a chain-and-sprocket driven model that can be powered electrically, with compressed air or by hydraulic motor. But for now just crank up the volume and play Deeds Not Words, a barnstormer which opens with keening bagpipes before breaking in to squealing rock and roll guitar. They had a craftsman who could build us a single crank roller gin, but it would take time.The roller gin is a beautiful little machine, just the right size for a classroom. Show More Sentences The eccentrically mounted handle of the rotary handmill which appeared in 5th century BC Celtiberian Spain and ultimately spread across the Roman Empire constitutes a crank. The mechanical advantage of a crank, the ratio between the force on the connecting rod and the torque on the shaft, varies throughout the crank's cycle. As long as the connecting rod is much longer than the crank. A steel disk was rotated at high speed by a crank mechanism. The gear wheel's bearing was attached to a crank on the flywheel shaft. The front sprocket is made from reinforced composite embedded with glass fibers and comes as an integrated crank assembly for easy factory installation. We've enjoyed seeing Simon Cowell's emerging touchy-feely side and the acts so far, but it'd be great to crank up the excitement with a few more big hitters. It has accessory-only, ignition-on, run positions and a spring-loaded, crank position that activates the starter motor as long as you hold the key there. The end of the rod attached to the crank moves in a circular motion, while the other end is usually constrained to move in a linear sliding motion. The incorporation of the worm gear and crank handle into the roller cotton gin led to greatly expanded Indian cotton textile production during the Mughal era. One was accused of making crank call to the embassy while the other, a motorcyclist was apprehended for making ''obscene gestures'' at a guard outside the embassy. Another innovation, the incorporation of the crank handle in the cotton gin, first appeared in India some time during the late Delhi Sultanate or the early Mughal Empire. His fulminations come closer to those of a crank than a geostrategist. Regarded as a crank, he spent the next seven years writing numerous accounts of his voyage and begging King Philip III for money for a new voyage. The stowage was clumsily done, and the vessel consequently crank. The boat was built by Alexander Hart at Grangemouth to Symington's design with a vertical cylinder engine and crosshead transmitting power to a crank driving the paddlewheels. Mr. Gannon loaded the racks inside the centrifuge with two beeless honeycombs, then stepped back and let Julian begin spinning them with a hand crank. The widely used reciprocating engine typically consisted of a cast iron cylinder, piston, connecting rod and beam or a crank and flywheel, and miscellaneous linkages. Be careful now, for auto crankers sometimes get broken arms. You take a firm grip on the crank, pull the choke wire and whirl the crank like the very devil. Early Watt engines used Watt's patent sun and planet gear, rather than a simple crank, as use of the latter was protected by a patent owned by James Pickard. Show More Sentences Once the patent had expired, the simple crank was employed universally. Watt held patents on key aspects of his engine's design, but his rotative engine was equally restricted by the patent by an other of the simple crank. Examples from Classical Literature Making the connecting rod shorter and leaving the crank mechanism the same would introduce excessive cylinder friction. The lead of the valve is the amount the port is open to the live steam when the crank is on the dead centre. The crank is then put on its other dead centre, and the lead for the head end port is measured. The first thing to be done is to put the crank pin on a dead centre, and it does not matter which one. She's a crank on domestic science and girls knowing how to cook and all that. An extendible shaft went from the wheel-fitting to the crank on the tractor. Sometimes we had a fanning mill, and how it would make my arms ache to turn the crank! For the benefit of the sportsman and gun crank who want plain facts and no flapdoodle, the following statistics are offered. The wing rose by means of a crank and a moveable piston, and was covered by impermeable taffeta. Lieutenant Ross was the name of tac in command, and he was noted for being a crank. They cared nothing for mammonism, that some philosophical crank has defined to be a physical force that makes men invertebrates. He used a tweezer to change the registers again and gave it a little crank. The crank case was of aluminum and the shaft of vanadium steel, hollow, and specially treated to insure toughness. The highest position of P will be that shown in the figure, determined by placing the crank vertically, as oc. The crank shaft is below, and the piston rod connected directly with crank. And fixed on the wheel there was to be a crank that worked the pounder in the mortar. Should any congressman propose their reenactment to-day, he would be looked upon as a crank and be laughed out of court. I was an automaton turning a crank in the frozen stillness of the long, long night. Still it won't go, and it keeps making that bang-bang noise like a gun whenever I turn the crank. In this groove is a steel roller upon a pin attached to the bell crank operating the main valve stem. Show More Sentences Throwing reverse lever in mid-gear will help to get bell crank in position to block. If break is near the top and below the jaw, first block the bell crank and wire the connection rod fast to radius bars. Daoud chose the bigger one, a Genoese arbalest drawn by crank, a present from King Manfred. The connecting rod is also made of cast-iron, and attached to the beam and to the crank by axles or pivots. A small helical spur pinion at the other end of this countershaft receives its motion from a larger gear turned by the hand crank. In this machine, the barrel was fitted with a crank, and rotated by handle. The crankshaft F passes through the crank case, the latter having suitable bearings G for taking care of the wear. Nothing now remains to be made except the crank and the flywheel. The average crank has a long beard, poorly cared for, a lean, narrow face, and wears a black coat. The crank is a person who holds views which to us seem ridiculous. An armless beggar was turning the crank of an organ with his bare feet. When this line is level the crank will be upon its dead center. What is to be done should the vertical arm or bell crank break? Lynde says that her father is a perfect old crank, and meaner than second skimmings. However, the moment the crank struck the ground it bounded back to the machine again and began winding it up. They're getting a hundred things done that they've always wanted to do but couldn't as long as he was about, the old crank. At another time they sent us a telegram which probably was the means of preventing an anarchist crank from taking my employer's life. The crank has also had fangs custom-made by a dentist to complete his transformation to a jungle cat. It has been used in piston rods and crank shafts for American airplanes. The point where the crank and the piston rod are in the same right line. Show More Sentences In all of them, termagant, flirt, crank, washerwoman, blue-stocking, outcast and even in the ordinary fool of the ordinary commerce there is something left, if only a spark. I tell thee, friend, one must serve a long apprenticeship ere one can learn to be even so much as a clapper-dudgeon, much less a crank or an Abraham-man. The frequency of reciprocation was controlled by the voltage controller and the amplitude at the point of connection of the crank to the rotating shaft. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of crank? Words that rhyme with crank What is the past tense of crank? What is the plural of crank? What is the adverb for crank? What is the adjective for crank? What is the noun for crank? Translations for crank Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words craniums cranium craniotomy craniotomies craniotabes craniosynostosis Crank crankbait crankcase cranked Cranked crankily 5-letter Words Starting With c cr cra cran