(n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.
(n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
(n.) A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
(n.) A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.
(n.) A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
(n.) A sick person; an invalid.
(n.) Sick; infirm.
(n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.
(n.) Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
(n.) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
Example Sentences:
(1) A crank arm length of 170 mm and pedalling rate of 100 rpm correspond closely to the cost function minimum.
(2) Known as crank, crystal, ice, crystal meth, and speed, MAP can be produced easily from ephedrine, and it is widely available.
(3) Eighty degrees further forward, along the minor axis, was the crank arm orientation for the second ellipse, Eng90.
(4) Vote for me, and I will complete the job of rebalancing it... January 28, 2014 12.03pm GMT Britain's businesses need to stop sitting on their cash piles and crank up their investment, argues IPPR’s chief economist Tony Dolphin: “The news that manufacturing is growing is welcome.
(5) A defeated Trump could be expected to be even busier, cranking up what many expect will be a far-right Trump TV network, which he’s already been road testing on Facebook.
(6) It’s a sweet, tender, funny reintroduction to a classic character, and after a few recent PR missteps by Archie Comics – which cranked up Kickstarter campaigns to quickly relaunch other modernised versions of some of its classic titles, before abandoning the idea after complaints from fans and industry professionals – looks like a solid launchpad for its 75th-anniversary celebrations.
(7) The method consists of simultaneously measuring both the normal and tangential pedal forces, the EMGs of eight leg muscles, and the crank arm and pedal angles.
(8) Seven subjects were successively submitted to LBNP exposure, arm cranking physical exercise, and to a combination of both procedures (LBNP + arm cranking) in order to check whether this combination enhances RAAS activity.
(9) A progressive continuous arm cranking test, modified for each group, was employed to elicit maximal responses with pulmonary and metabolic determinations made with open circuit spirometry and selected cardiovascular measurements made by impedance cardiography.
(10) Orgasms were the stuff of the academy and of politics in the 1970s, but now, to go anywhere near that stuff would be a fast and effective way to sound like a crank.
(11) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
(12) A ceiling fan cranked to full capacity was useless against the oppressive summer heat.
(13) In recent weeks Trump has been cranking up his gender attacks on Clinton, accusing her of playing the woman card and criticising her for being an “enabler” of her husband’s infidelities.
(14) And that allows the viewer to read into them his or her own view of the world, and then cranks up the emotional volume as high as it will go.
(15) This system consists of a flexible rod, sheath, crank, and cam to transmit the muscle power to a pusher plate pump and actuate it.
(16) Analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that both peak heart rate (HR) and rate pressure product (RPP) increased significantly with increases in cranking rate across the three tests (p less than .05).
(17) Then came Twitter, which really cranked things up in terms of the terror around your own public persona.
(18) The royal soap opera soon cranked up into a Hollywood blockbuster: the wedding at St Paul’s, the babies, infidelities on both sides, divorce, Diana’s shocking death in Paris, national mourning, Elton John at the funeral.
(19) The first of the extra 12,000 Syrian refugees should arrive in Australia before Christmas as officials crank up a $700m process to select, check and resettle them.
(20) Anyway, grab your party hat and some streamers, crank your German rock way up high and let’s get this party started.
Drank
Definition:
(imp.) of Drink.
(n.) Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant.
(imp.) of Drink
Example Sentences:
(1) Basal plasma levels of oxytocin were found to be low in sodium-deficient adrenalectomized rats and in intact animals treated daily with desoxycorticosterone acetate, both of which groups drank large amounts of NaCl solution, whereas basal plasma levels of arginine vasopressin were neither stimulated nor suppressed.
(2) The onset of tolerance to morphine analgesia was studied in 34 female Wistar rats immediately after they drank a dextrose-saccharin cocktail or tap water for 6 or 24 hours.
(3) The rats provided with sodium barbiturate-supplemented water developed more intestinal tumors than did those that drank drug-free water.
(4) ANG II given as early as 10 days after surgery, and they drank reliably and vigorously but less in total volume to 100 ng i.c.v.
(5) Subjects reported in a diary everything they either ate or drank for seven consecutive days.
(6) When the dogs drank either H2O or NaCl,f increased significantly during the first minute after drinking.
(7) But identifying why I’m not sleeping well after I’ve eaten too much, drank something or not exercised enough, then it becomes useful to change habits and do something about the poor sleep.” Fitbit has one of the most advanced analysis platforms.
(8) Rats drank from a cup and were then injected with lithium chloride.
(9) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
(10) When water was withheld for 15 min, but then allowed, rats drank the same total volume but c-fos expression was no longer inhibited in either the supraoptic nucleus or paraventricular nucleus.
(11) A case is described of a 30-year-old White male who drank 120 ml carbon tetrachloride (CCI4).
(12) Men drank more and they drank more often than women.
(13) Unilateral nephrectomy at the age of 80 days produced a slight BP increase in females irrespective of whether they drank water or 0.6% NaCl, but in males only if they drank 0.6% NaCl solution.
(14) Ninety percent of women drank alcohol at least once after the diagnosis of pregnancy.
(15) Their pattern of drinking was similar to that of other age groups, except for those over 65 years, who drank less.
(16) In particular, girls in the eighth grade showed less suitable behaviour in several fields: many of these drank alcohol and smoked tobacco.
(17) The rats that were injected with ibotenic acid during ketamine anesthesia drank significantly less than the control group when tested with 3% hypertonic saline but not when tested with angiotensin II.
(18) Females drank considerably less in this population; trends were similar although not of as great magnitude as those for males.
(19) Although natural killer cell activity was lower in patients who drank alcohol or had nodal metastases, no single clinical factor was predictive of deficient cytotoxic response.
(20) Abedi, too, smoked cannabis, drank and, according to at least one source, was known to the authorities for antisocial behaviour.