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crate
[ kreyt ]
noun
- a slatted wooden box or framework for packing, shopping, or storing fruit, furniture, glassware, crockery, etc.
- any completely enclosed boxlike packing or shipping case.
- Informal. something rickety and dilapidated, especially an automobile:
They're still driving around in the old crate they bought 20 years ago.
- a quantity, especially of fruit, that is often packed in a crate approximately 2 × 1 × 1 foot (0.6 × 0.3 × 0.3 meters):
a crate of oranges.
verb (used with object)
- to pack in a crate.
crate
/ kreɪt /
noun
- a fairly large container, usually made of wooden slats or wickerwork, used for packing, storing, or transporting goods
- slang.an old car, aeroplane, etc
verb
- tr to pack or place in a crate
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Derived Forms
- ˈcrater, noun
- ˈcrateful, noun
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Other Words From
- re·crate verb (used with object) recrated recrating
- un·crate verb (used with object) uncrated uncrating
- un·crated adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crate1
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Example Sentences
A crate of the stuff arrived at the studio, compliments of the Plaza Athénée.
I climbed into the crate—82 inches long, 26 inches wide, and 11.5 inches deep—in late October.
Beside the bed, there was a table made from a small wooden crate.
It does have a competitive following on Pinterest (comparable to Wal-Mart and Crate & Barrel) which is important for retailers.
But I have news for House Republicans that may help them more than years of psychotherapy or a crate of Paxil: You may still win.
And I should kick the bottom out of dis crate just because you don't like the looks of somebody behind us!
The price is high, varying from twelve to twenty-eight dollars per crate; and is paid in ten monthly installments.
When I picked myself up, I saw half the men securing the crate and the other half grovelling around something on the deck.
So he gave a jump out of the net, but, in a second he found himself inside the wooden crate, or box.
Then Mappo looked at the crate in which the tiger was being carried along through the jungle.
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