What's the difference between cran and crap?

Cran


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Crane

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A relapsing chyloperitoneum was brought under control by hitherto non published surgical procedures: in one instance by communication of the abdomen with the posterior mediastinum, in the second case by ligature of the lymphatic vessels close to the vasa mesenterica cran.
  • (2) In all except the Cran-Grape and V8 preparations, the drug was stable for 48 hours under both storage conditions.
  • (3) Patrick Lozès, head of Cran, a leading French black association, said the fact that French young people with immigrant parents were demanding their rights to be equal citizens showed that the principle of the republican system worked, but it had been muddied by extreme discrimination.
  • (4) February 18, 2015 The Representative Council for Black Associations (Cran), which campaigns for minority rights in France, said the Chelsea fans had imposed “apartheid” in the Paris Métro on Tuesday night.
  • (5) The only extemporaneous preparations with greater than 10% loss of nizatidine potency at 48 hours were the Cran-Grape and V8 preparations at room temperature.
  • (6) This racism is not the exception; it is becoming the norm in one of the most popular sports which generates a lot of money,” Cran said in a statement.

Crap


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
  • (2) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
  • (3) This is payback, without a doubt.” The workers recently won the support of Will Self, who supported a boycott of the venue, writing : “If the punters wake up and smell the crap coffee of corporate greed, perhaps we won’t be so keen on contributing to those revenues.
  • (4) It’s just tokenistic crap so they can get more back pats from the broader community,” he said.
  • (5) They were apparently trying to promote a healthy lifestyle to the Russian public, but Muscle and Fitness magazine slated the president’s technique: “his cable crossover form is crap”.
  • (6) My father was a very important role model in my life and in his own way helped me to set high expectations for myself, to stand on my own two feet and to not take crap.
  • (7) Star Wars , it turns out, is the most ambitious, enterprising and impressive exercise in the marketing of crap ever conceived by man.
  • (8) "Being a contrary sort of person, I figured there had been enough politically correct crap going around.
  • (9) Our respondents explained why: "At the employment office, they look at you like you're crap."
  • (10) Tory rhetoric on the burden of renewable energy to bill payers has been relentless ever since David Cameron infamously referred to the levies as “green crap” .
  • (11) He begins his first-person narrative in words that echo the famous opening of Twain’s novel ( No 23 in this series ), a frank disavowal of “all that David Copperfield kind of crap”.
  • (12) Because people tend to treat social media as conversational,” says internet psychologist Graham Jones , “they get the feeling they are just chatting with their friends, hence many of the apparent online death threats could be nothing more than the non-realistic conversational expressions of anger.” “Crap!” tweeted 28-year-old trainee accountant Paul Chambers in 2010 to his 690 followers.
  • (13) It’s more hard-wired than that; it’s crap but comforting cuisine, your first Meccano set, moral certainties, safety.
  • (14) "We don't need the big star, we can just load up on Michael Bourns and Nick Swishers, kick the crap out of the bottom feeders, catch a few breaks and make the playoffs - I love it."
  • (15) November 5, 2013 Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) Draghi has incentive to make sure he doent have "crap in his hands" after EU bank asset review next year, says #Rehn November 5, 2013 Matthew Dalton (@DJMatthewDalton) The incentive not to have crap on one's hands is universal.
  • (16) Michael Palin has said that a lot of Monty Python's material was "crap", in an interview with the Telegraph .
  • (17) Here (at least on the night I watched; the acts vary nightly), the joke is comedians performing crap circus acts.
  • (18) How do you cleanse the palate after watching a soul-destroyingly crap movie?
  • (19) The Sun quoted an unnamed source as saying: "The prime minister is going round Number 10 saying: 'We have got to get rid of all this green crap'.
  • (20) He didn't have to give a crap about me but he arranged for me to go on stages.

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