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Words related to crane

Related / Similar Words: Crane, Hart Crane, Harold Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, stretch out

Definition:

large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world;

lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis;

United States poet (1899-1932);

United States writer (1871-1900);

stretch (the neck) so as to see better; "The women craned their necks to see the President drive by";

Hyponyms: whooping crane, whooper, Grus americana, davit, derrick, transporter

Member Meronyms: Gruidae, family Gruidae

Derivational Morphology: stretch out

Anagrams: nacre

Language Translations:
Albanian: lejlek and vinç		Arabic: كركي
Chinese: 鶴		Danish: trane
Dutch: hijskraan and kraanvogel		Esperanto: gruo
Estonian: kurg		Finnish: kurki and nostokurki
French: grue		German: Kran and Kranich
Greek: (ανυψωτικός) γερανός and γερανός		Hungarian: daru
Italian: gru		Japanese: 鶴
Korean: 두루미		Latin: grus
Lithuanian: gervė		Polish: dźwig and żuraw
Portuguese: grou		Romanian: cocor and macara
Russian: журавль and кран		Slovak: žeriav
Slovene: žerjav		Spanish: grúa and grulla
Swedish: kran and trana		Telugu: కొంగ
Turkish: turna

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