cranes in English

noun

1

a large, tall machine used for moving heavy objects, typically by suspending them from a projecting arm or beam.

Giant cranes were lifting large, mangled steel beams and depositing them onto 18-wheelers.

synonyms: derrick, winch, hoist, davit, windlass, block and tackle

2

a tall, long-legged, long-necked bird, typically with white or gray plumage and often with tail plumes and patches of bare red skin on the head. Cranes are noted for their elaborate courtship dances.

The courtship rituals of cranes are elaborate: paired birds spread their wings and leap repeatedly into the air while calling.

verb

1

stretch out one's body or neck in order to see something.

she craned forward to look more clearly

2

move (a heavy object) with a crane.

the wheelhouse module is craned into position on the hull

noun

derrick, winch, hoist, davit, windlass, block and tackle

verb

stretch out

Use "cranes" in a sentence

1. Cranes — Offshore cranes — Part 1: General-purpose offshore cranes

2. Crowned cranes

3. Stacker cranes and hoists

4. Red-crowned cranes, Asia

5. Why do cranes dance?

6. 14 Dancing With the Cranes

7. Contact information for Benchley Cranes

8. Common European cranes in flight

9. Ships’ derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane:

10. Cranes — Manually controlled load manipulating devices

11. Cranes — Requirements for container handling spreaders

12. Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane

13. Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane.

14. Welded steel structures (machinery), cranes (lifting apparatus)

15. Migrating cranes in a typical V-formation

16. Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane:

17. Ships’ derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane.

18. Ships’ derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane

19. Two tall cranes loom above their roofs.

20. Crowned cranes are enthusiastic and entertaining dancers.

21. 2 Huge cranes are swinging cargo up.

22. Give peace cranes to friends and Veterans.

23. "Uganda Cranes Regroup For CHAN 2014 Preparations". kawowo.com.

24. Overhead cranes were lifting giant sheets of steel.

25. Cranes like ships Sailing up in the sky,

26. Craning (plural Cranings) The act of one who cranes

27. Group: Safety equipment for climbing cranes (27) Full list ...

28. The one where they're hanging people from construction cranes, Bob.

29. Close Affronty with tailfeathers displayed: Vigilance: seen only with Cranes

30. Owner figuring in the delightful view of cranes and scaffolding?

31. You can see the spires and construction cranes for miles.

32. The Japanese depict dancing cranes on their 1,000-yen bills.

33. - further reductions of noise emissions (cars, trucks, aircraft, cranes, mowers, etc.)

34. 23 May 2011: Dismantling four tower cranes continues till mid-July.

35. Other birds include hammerkops, crowned cranes, saddle-bills, and cattle egrets.

36. For that, one of the world’s largest floating cranes was used.

37. The cranes are operated by remote control from a special enclosed room.

38. To survive, cranes have had to learn to live with people.

39. A manufacturer's plate containing the following information shall be affixed to cranes:

40. Aerial encroachment is generally used to facilitate the use of tower cranes.

41. Threats to the captive cranes include disease, accidents, and limited genetic diversity.

42. Included as symbols of peace and healing were 1,000 folded paper cranes.

43. The Bidston Dock cranes have been a Birkenhead landmark for many years.

44. Cranes and bulldozers beaver away throughout the territory, building new high - rises.

45. Truck mounted telescopic cranes 30 ton meter up to 180 ton meter.

46. Cranes take from four to seven years to mature before they pair up.

47. 6 There are more cranes than half-baked themes done to excess.

48. The steel - melting shop was equipped with four 40 ton stationary open - hearth furnaces , served by 300 ton hot - metal mixers , and provided with charging cranes , pitside cranes and a stockyard .

49. Migration was a term then still reserved for Siberian cranes, not human beings.

50. Cranes safety — Requirements for health and safety — Part 2: Limiting and indicating devices