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noun

the cup-shaped depression or cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano.

Also called impact crater, meteorite crater. (on the surface of the earth, moon, etc.) a bowl-shaped depression with a raised rim, formed by the impact of a meteoroid. Compare astrobleme.

Astronomy. (on the surface of the moon) a circular or almost circular area having a depressed floor, almost always containing a central mountain and usually completely enclosed by walls that are often higher than those of a walled plain; ring formation; ring. Compare walled plain.

the bowllike orifice of a geyser.

the hole or pit in the ground where a bomb, shell, or military mine has exploded.

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Electricity. the cavity formed in a positive carbon electrode by an electric arc.

Greek and Roman Antiquity. krater.

Metalworking. a depression at the end of a bead produced by welding.

genitive Cra·te·ris

[krey-teer-is] . (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the Cup, a small southern constellation west of Corvus and north of Hydra.

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verb (used with object)

10.

to make craters in: Bombs had cratered the landscape.

11.

Slang.

to cancel, abandon, or cast aside: to crater the new project.

to destroy or ruin: One more disappointment won't crater me.

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verb (used without object)

12.

to form a crater or craters: The surface of the concrete cratered and cracked under the repeated impacts.

Origin:
1605–15; < Latin < Greek krātḗr mixing bowl, literally, mixer, equivalent to krā- (base of kerannýnai to mix) + -tēr agentive suffix; compare crasis

Related forms

cra·ter·al, cra·ter·ous, adjective

cra·ter·like, adjective

in·ter·cra·ter, adjective

Example Sentences

It forms a blister, then an open sore, and finally a crater.

Brickwork tumbling from the walls quickly filled the large crater made by the bomb.

Some speculated that the rover had fallen into a crater or parked in such a way as to render the reflector inaccessible.

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It forms a blister, then an open sore, and finally a crater.

Brickwork tumbling from the walls quickly filled the large crater made by the bomb.

Some speculated that the rover had fallen into a crater or parked in such a way as to render the reflector inaccessible.

In other deposits, they're either sedimentary, or in the center of an impact crater.

Yucatán impact crater may have occurred before the dinosaurs went extinct.

Apparently the crater lake at the volcano is warming up, suggesting that magma is rising underneath the volcano.

Hundreds got sick from a crater that may have been created by a meteor.

They talk about a lunar base at a permanently shadowed crater at the lunar south pole.

The craft successfully struck their target, a crater thought to.

Right now, volcanic activity in the crater has closed the road's western half.

The pattern on the floor of the crater is made of sand dunes.

Most suspect it nests in the lush carpet of moss and vines lining the crater wall that falls away from the ridgelines here.

Visits to the crater are not yet allowed, as the eruption has yet to be officially declared finished.

Helens's volcanic crater to better predict major eruptions.

Feed the other tube all the way to the bottom of the bottle and bury the other end in the sand up to your crater.

The heat in the neighborhood of the crater is enormous, entirely preventing any investigations.

Helens' dramatic eggshell-shaped crater after an eruption.

According to witnesses, the crater filled with boiling liquid and noxious gas poured out.

She also lost her right eye, and what remained of her childhoodWhen the dynamite blew a crater in the.

Geologists determined it was an impact crater when they.

Then, as the rivers receded, a gas main broke and the crater spewed forth a tower of orange flames.

Scientists suspect that it is a shallow impact crater filled with dust to a foot or two of the rim.

The end result: a tiny crater barely visible to the naked eye.

But where the gas station used to stand, he saw only a deep crater.

At the same time, a backhoe tumbled into the four-foot-deep crater.

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World English Dictionary

crate (kreɪt)

—n
1.	a fairly large container, usually made of wooden slats or wickerwork, used for packing, storing, or transporting goods
2.	slang an old car, aeroplane, etc

—vb
3.	(tr) to pack or place in a crate

[C16: from Latin crātis wickerwork, hurdle]

'crater

—n

'crateful

—n

crater (ˈkreɪtə)

—n
1.	the bowl-shaped opening at the top or side of a volcano or top of a geyser through which lava and gases are emitted
2.	a similarly shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or exploding bomb
3.	any of the circular or polygonal walled formations covering the surface of the moon and some other planets, formed probably either by volcanic action or by the impact of meteorites. They can have a diameter of up to 240 kilometres (150 miles) and a depth of 8900 metres (29 000 feet)
4.	a pit in an otherwise smooth surface
5.	a large open bowl with two handles, used for mixing wines, esp in ancient Greece

—vb
6.	to make or form craters in (a surface, such as the ground)
7.	slang to fail; collapse; crash

[C17: from Latin: mixing bowl, crater, from Greek kratēr, from kerannunai to mix]

'cratered

—*adj*

'craterless

—*adj*

'crater-like

—*adj*

Crater (ˈkreɪtə)

—n , Latin genitive Crateris
	a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Virgo and Hydra

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Word Origin & History

crater

1613, from Gk. krater "bowl for mixing wine with water," from kera- "to mix." used in L. for bowl-shaped mouth of a volcano. Applied to features of the Moon since 1860.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

crater cra·ter (krā'tər)
n.
A circular depression or pit in the surface of a tissue or body part.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

crater (krā'tər) Pronunciation Key

A bowl-shaped depression at the top of a volcano or at the mouth of a geyser. Volcanic craters can form because of magma explosions in which a large amount of lava is thrown out from a volcano, leaving a hole, or because the roof of rock over an underground magma pool collapses after the magma has flowed away.
A shallow, bowl-shaped depression in a surface, formed by an explosion or by the impact of a body, such as a meteorite.

Slang Dictionary

crater definition

n.
an acne scar. : Walter was always sort of embarrassed about his craters.
in.
to collapse and go down as with a falling stock price. : The stock cratered and probably won't recover for a year or two.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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