Crank vs Prank - What's the difference?
crank | prank |
(slang) strange, weird, odd
sick; unwell; infirm
(nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
* Udall
* Mrs. Stowe
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.(rfex)
The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
* (rfdate) Spenser:
(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
* Carlyle
(informal, British, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
* 1882 January 14, in Pall Mall Gazette :
(informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
(US, slang) methamphetamine.
(rare) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
* (rfdate) Milton:
(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
* Burton
(slang) penis.
* 2013 , Reggie Chesterfield, Scoundrel (page 57)
To turn by means of a crank .
To turn a crank .
To turn.
To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
To be running at a high level of output or effort.
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(dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
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(obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.
*, II.4.2.ii:
A practical joke or mischievous trick.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
* Spenser
* 1748 , , B:II
* 1880 , For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli , lines 2–3
To make ostentatious show.
* M. Arnold
To perform a practical joke on; to trick.
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(slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up
(obsolete) Full of gambols or tricks.
(Webster 1913)
English transitive verbs
In slang|lang=en terms the difference between crank and prank
is that crank is (slang) penis while prank is (slang) to call someone's phone and promptly hang up.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between crank and prank
is that crank is (obsolete) a sick person; an invalid while prank is (obsolete) full of gambols or tricks.In lang=en terms the difference between crank and prank
is that crank is to be running at a high level of output or effort while prank is to perform a practical joke on; to trick.As adjectives the difference between crank and prank
is that crank is (slang) strange, weird, odd while prank is (obsolete) full of gambols or tricks.As nouns the difference between crank and prank
is that crank is 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 while prank is (obsolete) an evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.As verbs the difference between crank and prank
is that crank is to turn by means of a crank while prank is to adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.crank
English
Adjective
(er)- He who was, a little before, bedrid, was now crank and lusty.
- If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it.
Noun
(en noun)- Yes, a crank was all it needed to start .
- So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks.
- Billy-Bob is a nasty old crank ! He chased my cat away.
- Violent of temper; subject to sudden cranks .
- John is a crank because he talks to himself .
- Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau's trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’ —that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.
- That crank next door thinks he's created cold fusion in his garage.
- Danny got abscesses from shooting all that bathtub crank .
- Quips, and cranks , and wanton wiles.
- Thou art a counterfeit crank , a cheater.
- It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank .
Synonyms
* See also .Verb
(en verb)- Motorists had to crank their engine by hand.
- He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank.
- He's been cranking all day and yet it refuses to crank .
- I turn the key and crank the engine; yet it doesn't turn over
- Crank it up!
- Quit cranking about your spilt milk!
- By one hour into the shift, the boys were really cranking .
- See how this river comes me cranking in.
Derived terms
* crank axle * crank call * crankcase * crank out * crankpin * crank pin * crank shaft * crankstart * crank start * crank up * crank wheel * cranky * turn someone's crankprank
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hercules, after all his mad pranks upon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of hellebor, which an Antieyrian administered unto him.
- His pranks have been too broad to bear with.
- The harpies played their accustomed pranks .
- Pranks may be funny, but remember that some people are aggressive.
- He pulled a gruesome prank on his sister.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* prankish * pranksome * pranksterVerb
- In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank .
- And there a Sea?on atween June and May,
- Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrown'd,
- A li?tle?s Climate made, where, Sooth to ?ay,
- No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play.
- ''Flora, wanton-eyed
- ''For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:
- White houses prank where once were huts.
citation
- Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.
- I don't have your number in my phone, can you prank me?
