What's the difference between crake and craze?

Crake


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
  • (v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
  • (n.) A boast. See Crack, n.
  • (n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And Oryx and Crake is dealing with tendencies that are global rather than country-specific or allied to national politics.
  • (2) Morally provocative and darkly funny with plenty of sex (including some fashionable sadomasochism), the series will be lapped up by fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake .
  • (3) For instance, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, and Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake, two recent favorites, were speculative fiction, and Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity, another recent favourite, was historical.
  • (4) The presence of 5-3deltabeta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, IIbeta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase has been demonstrated histochemically in the adrenal gland of the rain quail Coturnix coromendalica, barn owl Tyto alba, brown crake Amaurornis akool and painted partidge Francholinus pictus.
  • (5) Does having written Oryx and Crake make you think The Handmaid’s Tale is less true than it was?

Craze


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
  • (v. t.) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  • (v. t.) To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  • (v. i.) To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  • (v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
  • (n.) Craziness; insanity.
  • (n.) A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
  • (n.) A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
  • (2) But last week's trading statement from Unilever confirmed that, far from cashing in on the dieting craze, Slim Fast's sales have been shrinking faster than a weight watcher's waistline.
  • (3) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
  • (4) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
  • (5) ‘Twosie’ trend takes off Primark is backing the “twosie” as this year’s Christmas novelty hit in the UK, just as 2012’s craze the onesie has crossed the Channel in a late surge of popularity on the continent.
  • (6) The fashionable did not invent the craze for sunbathing, as we've been encouraged to believe.
  • (7) Sprawling across 110 hectares on the outskirts of Milan, this crazed collage of undulating tents, tilting green walls and parametrically-contorted lumps can mean only one thing: Expo 2015, latest in a long and controversial tradition of “world’s fairs”, has landed.
  • (8) Jimi Heselden, who latched on to an international craze for the upright, motorised "green commuter machines", was testing a cross-country version when he skidded into the river Wharfe which runs beside his Yorkshire estate.
  • (9) The tabloid conclusion is that the North's leaders are crazed – Kim Jong-un is a "deranged despot", the Sun wrote on Friday – while the Team America version is that they are idiotic.
  • (10) As the leader of the skiffle craze, he inspired the formation of literally thousands of do-it-yourself bands across the country, and was directly responsible for the 1960s pop explosion that - ironically - was to severely damage his own career.
  • (11) Knuckles, who is credited to have invented the house genre, begun his residency at the westside club in 1977 at the height of disco fever, but by 1980 a backlash had swept the craze away.
  • (12) Delivering his verdict after a week-long inquest, Craze said Pritchard's death was an accident, albeit an avoidable one.
  • (13) But there was a tonic for collective despair: from the decaying motor town of Coventry, 2 Tone Records promoted a "black and white, unite and fight" stance while launching a fashion, dance and musical craze that peaked with the 1981 summer of riots.
  • (14) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
  • (15) Their threat to sweep across continents like the armies of Muhammad, to stable their horses in the Vatican, are crazed delusions, we should not amplify them.
  • (16) The positive aspect is that far from being driven by a crazed, Hitler-like quest for European domination, the objectives of the Putin government appear to be both limited and rational: the protection of its regional security interests and great power status.
  • (17) Nowhere is the Sarah Brown craze more feverish than on the internet.
  • (18) #Bellfie by Matt Collins, managing director at Platypus Digital The big craze for 2015 will be the #bellfie.
  • (19) However, the larger apatite crystal size and loss of prismatic structure in crazed and cratered areas may partly explain previous observations of reduced rates of subsurface demineralization in lased enamel.
  • (20) "Obviously it doesn't fit into the paper cut-out picture of what a celebrity should look like," Cherry says, "and I think the whole scenario has become really crazed.