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What is the difference between crane and stork?

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Stork is a coordinate term of crane.



As nouns the difference between crane and stork

is that crane is a large bird of the order Gruiformes and the family Gruidae having long legs and a long neck which it extends when flying while stork is a large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.

As a verb crane

is to extend (one's neck).

As a proper noun Crane

is {{surname}.

crane

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large bird of the order Gruiformes'' and the family ''Gruidae having long legs and a long neck which it extends when flying.
  • A mechanical lifting device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
  • An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
  • A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
  • (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.
  • Derived terms

    * black crowned crane * black-necked crane * blue crane * common crane * cranefly * demoiselle crane * grey crowned crane * hooded crane * red-crowned crane * sandhill crane * sarus crane * Siberian crane * wattled crane * white-naped crane * whooping crane

    See also

    * egret * heron * stork

    Verb

    (cran)
  • To extend (one's neck).
  • (George Eliot)
  • To raise or lower with, or as if with, a .
  • * Bates
  • What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens.
  • * Massinger
  • an upstart craned up to the height he has

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    stork

    English

    (Ciconiidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
  • The mythical bringer of babies to familes.
  • Derived terms

    * (black-necked stork) * (giant stork) * (hair-crested stork) * saddle-billed stork * storky

    See also

    * crane * egret * heron

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