Cyan vs Cran - What's the difference?
cyan | cran |
A colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.
(obsolete) a measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified; also rarely a barrel made to hold such a measure
* 1800 Dec., Sir Richard Phillips,
* 1960 , Singing the Fishing :
(music) An embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.
As nouns the difference between cyan and cran
is that cyan is cyan (colour) while cran is (obsolete) a measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified; also rarely a barrel made to hold such a measure or cran can be (music) an embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.cyan
English
(wikipedia cyan)Noun
(en-noun)See also
* ----cran
English
Etymology 1
Gaelic.Alternative forms
* craneNoun
(en-noun)The Monthly magazine , Volume 10, No. 66, page 486:
- Very flattering indeed has been the success of the fishermen; and many boats have come in loaded, averaging thirty or forty crans' each (every '''cran''' estimated at 1,000 herrings), and disposed of their cargoes at nine shillings per ' cran ; but the price has been since raised to fifteen shillings.
- And fish the knolls on the North Sea Holes
And try your luck at the North Shields Gut
With a catch of a hundred cran .
