Craneとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /kɹeɪn/
• 韻: -eɪn

語源 1

From Middle English cran, from 古期英語 cran (“crane”), from Proto-Germanic *kranô (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”). Cognate with Scots cran (“crane”), Dutch kraan (“crane”), German Kran (“crane”). The mechanical devices are named from their likeness to the bird.

名詞

crane (複数形 cranes)

1. Any bird of the family Gruidae, large birds with long legs and a long neck which is extended during flight.
   • 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:

     Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

2. (US, dialect) Ardea herodias, the great blue heron.
3. A mechanical lifting machine or device, often used for lifting heavy loads for industrial or construction purposes.
4. An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace for supporting kettles etc. over the fire.
5. A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
6. (nautical) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc.; generally used in pairs.

下位語

• Gruidae on Wikimedia Commons.

派生語

関連する語

• cranberry, via German Low German Kraan (“crane”)

派生した語

参考

• egret
• heron
• stork

動詞

crane (三人称単数 現在形 cranes, 現在分詞 craning, 過去形および過去分詞形 craned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To extend (one's neck).
   • 2008, Rivers Cuomo (lyrics かつ music), “Troublemaker”, in Weezer (Red Album), performed by Weezer:

     I'm gonna be a star and people will crane necks
     To get a glimpse of me and see if I am having sex

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of George Eliot to this entry?)

2. (transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
   • 1693, William Bates, Sermons preach'd on Several Occasions:

     What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the centre, to the highest heavens.

   • 1619, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry

     an upstart craned up to the height he has

3. (intransitive) To pull up before a jump.