Crackpot vs. Crank
Difference Between Crackpot and Crank
Crackpotnoun
(informal) An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. A kook.
Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.Crankadjective
(slang) strange, weird, odd
Crackpotnoun
(informal) Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).
Crankadjective
sick; unwell; infirm
Crackpotadjective
(informal) Eccentric or impractical.
a crackpot ideaCrankadjective
Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
Crackpotnoun
a whimsically eccentric person
Crankadjective
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
Cranknoun
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.Cranknoun
The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
Yes, a crank was all it needed to start.Cranknoun
(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
Cranknoun
(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person
Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank! He chased my cat away.Cranknoun
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
Cranknoun
A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
John is a crank because he talks to himself.Cranknoun
(informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
That crank next door thinks he’s created cold fusion in his garage.Cranknoun
synonym of methamphetamine.
Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank.Cranknoun
(rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
Cranknoun
(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
Cranknoun
(slang) penis.
Crankverb
(transitive) To turn by means of a crank.
Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.Crankverb
(intransitive) To turn a crank.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.Crankverb
To turn.
He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.Crankverb
(transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn overCrank it up!Crankverb
(intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
Quit cranking about your spilt milk!Crankverb
(intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking.Crankverb
To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Cranknoun
a bad-tempered person
Cranknoun
a whimsically eccentric person
Cranknoun
amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
Cranknoun
a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
Crankverb
travel along a zigzag path;
The river zigzags through the countrysideCrankverb
start by cranking;
crank up the engineCrankverb
rotate with a crank
Crankverb
fasten with a crank
Crankverb
bend into the shape of a crank
Crankadjective
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
