Talk:crank
RFV discussion[edit]
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Tagged, not listed. Rfv-sense for "To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably." --Hekaheka 14:49, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- No defenders, delete? --Hekaheka 05:30, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
- Example provided, found another in the net, looks all right, even if rare. --Hekaheka 15:38, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
RFV 2[edit]
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"To produce or present a desired object. Crank out the beer!" Should this be moved to crank out, or can proper citations be found? Equinox ◑ 16:52, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
- I think it should be moved. But maybe they meant something like the usage example I just added, which doesn't require a prepositional phrase or object. DCDuring TALK 20:27, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
- I think the usex has more to do, figuratively, with an engine running at full speed than with a machine producing at full capacity. I seem to remember hearing a fast car as described as "really cranking", and a driver being told to "crank it!" when someone needed the car to start going a lot faster. There seems to be usage of "we were really cranking" by musicians with the sense of going all out and being at their best, though it may have something to do with cranking up the (sound) volume, or cranking up the voltage, etc. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:40, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
- I was thinking of cases something more like this:
- Lua error in Module:quote at line 2660: Parameter 1 is required.. DCDuring TALK 12:10, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
- I was thinking of cases something more like this:
- I think the usex has more to do, figuratively, with an engine running at full speed than with a machine producing at full capacity. I seem to remember hearing a fast car as described as "really cranking", and a driver being told to "crank it!" when someone needed the car to start going a lot faster. There seems to be usage of "we were really cranking" by musicians with the sense of going all out and being at their best, though it may have something to do with cranking up the (sound) volume, or cranking up the voltage, etc. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:40, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
- As a sense of "crank": RFV-failed for now. [[crank out]] exists. - -sche (discuss) 21:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Nautical expression[edit]
Just to let you all know, "crank" used in the nautical context is an adjective, not a noun. M-W confirms here, as does Dictionary.com, here. I have corrected the entry here accordingly. Cheers. Parsecboy (talk) 14:09, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- No, you didn't. You moved the noun definition to the adjective section, but it was still defined as a noun "a ship ...". You also didn't remove the (empty) noun translation section. Fixed. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:15, 27 February 2013 (UTC)