different between crame vs crate

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

From Scots crame, craim, from Middle Dutch kraeme or Middle Low German krame; both from Old High German kr?m (“merchant tent; tent cloth”), probably ultimately borrowed from Slavic, such as Old Church Slavonic gram? (gram?, “pub, inn”) or ?r?m? (?r?m?, “tent”).

Compare West Frisian kream, Dutch kraam, German Low German Kraam, German Kram, Swedish kram, Icelandic kram.

Noun

crame (plural crames)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A merchant's booth; a shop or tent where goods are sold; a stall
2. (chiefly Scotland) A parcel of goods for sale; a peddler's pack; a kit

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Etymology 2

Variant of cram.

Verb

crame

1. Archaic spelling of cram.

Anagrams

• Carme, McRae, cream, crema, macer, recam

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: crament, crames

Verb

crame

1. first-person singular present indicative of cramer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cramer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cramer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cramer
5. second-person singular imperative of cramer

English

Etymology

From Dutch krat (“crate, large box, basket”), from Middle Dutch cratte (“basketware, mold”), from Old Dutch *kratta, *kratto (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kratjô, *krattijô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gred-, *gre(n)t- (“plaiting, wicker, basket, cradle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bind, twist, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow”), German Krätze (“basket”), Old English cræt, ceart (“cart, wagon, chariot”), Old Norse kartr (“wagon”), modern English cart.

Alternatively from Latin cr?tis (“wickerwork”), perhaps from the same PIE root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

crate (plural crates)

1. A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods. [from 1680s]

   Synonym: packing case

2. (slang, mildly derogatory) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
   • 1936, Joseph R. James, "More Gates Air Circus Antics" (Popular Aviation, November 1936)

     They shook the head of the unconscious pilot and when the latter opened his eyes, blinking wildly, the other members of the family lifted up the tail of the overturned crate sufficiently high enough to enable the dazed pilot, after releasing his belt, to fall out of the cockpit head first and disengage himself from the crack-up.

   • 2010, Gillian Coleby, Knocking on the Moonlit Door (page 99)

     I will make this box of electronics and computer chips fly like no other spaceship has ever flown. Mission Control wanted to see what this crate could do.

3. (programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
   • 2017, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, "O'Reilly Media, Inc." (?ISBN), page 166:

     And Rust never compiles modules separately, even if they're in separate files: when you build a Rust crate, you're recompiling all of its modules.

Derived terms

• crate engine
• crate motor
• crate training

Translations

Verb

crate (third-person singular simple present crates, present participle crating, simple past and past participle crated)

1. (transitive) To put into a crate. [from 1871]
2. (transitive) To keep in a crate.

References

Anagrams

• Carte, Trace, acter, caret, carte, cater, creat, react, recta, reäct, trace

Latin

Noun

cr?te

1. ablative singular of cr?tis