Crane

Noun

 * 1) A large bird of the order Gruiformes and the family Gruidae having long legs and a long neck which it extends when flying.
 * 2) A mechanical lifting device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.

Derived terms

 * black crowned crane
 * black-necked crane
 * blue crane
 * common crane


 * cranefly
 * demoiselle crane
 * grey crowned crane
 * hooded crane


 * red-crowned crane
 * sandhill crane
 * sarus crane
 * Siberian crane


 * wattled crane
 * white-naped crane
 * whooping crane

Related terms

 * , via Low German Kraan:

Verb

 * 1)  To extend (one's neck).
 * 2)  To raise or lower with a crane.

Adjectives
eerie-sounding; frog-questing; mournful; shadowy; ungainly; voracious; eternally-wading.

Verbs
—alights; —antics; —circles; —clowns; —croaks; —dances; —drifts down; — evades; —hops; —leaps; —skips; —stalks over; —trumpets; —wades; —whoops.

Thesaurus
andiron, be lengthy, be prolonged, belong, chain, coal tongs, crab, crane the neck, crook, damper, derrick, erector, extend, extend out, eye, fire hook, fire tongs, firedog, forklift, gantry crane, gape, gaup, gawk, gaze, gaze open-mouthed, gloat, goggle, grate, grating, grid, griddle, gridiron, grill, griller, hoist, hydraulic tailgate, jack, jackscrew, lever, lift, lifter, look, ogle, outreach, outstretch, poker, pothook, reach out, salamander, spit, sprawl, stand on tiptoe, stand on tiptoes, stare, stare at, stare down, stare hard, straggle, stretch, stretch out, tackle, tongs, tripod, trivet, turnspit, windlass

Etymology
Old English cran, from, from.

Noun

 * Albanian: lejlek
 * Arabic: كركي (Kurkiyy)
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese: 鶴 (hè)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: gruo
 * Estonian: kurg
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: bangau
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鶴 (つる, tsuru)
 * Korean: 두루미 (durumi), 학(鶴, hag, hak)
 * Kurdish: قۆڵه‌نگ


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dzērve
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: Kraan
 * Luhya:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Pashto:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: corra-mhonaidh
 * Serbian: ždral, žerav
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: కొంగ (komga)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: վերամբարձ կռունկ (verambardz kṙunk)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kran
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: クレーン
 * Low Saxon: Kraan
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: جر ثقیل
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:, двигун

Verb

 * Bulgarian: протягам, проточвам
 * Finnish: kurkottaa (kaulaansa)
 * French: allonger (le cou)
 * German: (to extend one's neck) den Hals recken, (to extend) strecken, ausstrecken


 * Italian: allungare (il collo)
 * Spanish: estirar (el cuello)
 * Swahili: songeza

Anagrams

 * caner, Caren, nacre

Etymology
In Lojbanized spelling.
 * Chinese: cian — 前 [qián]
 * English: frant — front
 * Hindi: samne — सामने [sāmanē]
 * Spanish: frent — frente

Gismu

 * 1) anterior; x1 is anterior/ahead/forward/(in/on) the front of x2 which faces/in-frame-of-reference x3

Related terms

 * sefta
 * flira
 * trixe
 * mlana
 * pritu
 * zunle