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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crate
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wooden
▪ I got to sit down after that, and I find a wooden crate.
▪ A pound and a quarter of C-4 explosive was tied with an explosive cord to wooden crates holding the rockets.
▪ This nanny worked in the big brewery down Manchester Road, capping the bottles and loading them into wooden crates.
▪ And much of the liquid used to simulate nerve gas at the test site was contained by the wooden crates.
▪ Maura sat on the wooden crate.
▪ The cabin is gouged open, spilling out wooden crates, twisted pieces of metal, a blown-up life raft.
▪ The second, lit by a single row of fluorescent lights, was stacked with large wooden crates from end to end.
▪ He looked around at all the cartons and wooden crates.
■ NOUN
milk
▪ A couple of candles burned on a milk crate, and the moon lit up the meadow below us.
▪ Spider was sitting on a milk crate in the back room when he got there.
■ VERB
pack
▪ Out of the remaining 200 packed into the second crate only 76 survived.
▪ They were the ones standing on packing crates outside the post hospital, looking proudly through the windows into the nursery.
▪ Other creatures travel in soil or packing crates, or are introduced for food or ornament.
▪ Come to think of it, they might want to hang on to those packing crates.
▪ Houses were shoulder-high, made of old packing crates and strips of sheet metal, the walls stuffed with cardboard and rags.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a crate of beer
▪ a big plastic crate for storing toys
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pound and a quarter of C-4 explosive was tied with an explosive cord to wooden crates holding the rockets.
▪ Above him vast silver dirigibles moved in the morning sky, great black crates strung beneath them.
▪ Beer was bottled each day, then labelled and put into crates.
▪ Go up and left, killing both the guards and the policeman with the crates.
▪ Hall threw in the third crate for a Quinn goal that was disallowed.
▪ He sat down quickly on the Bendix crate to bring himself closer to my level.
▪ Houses were shoulder-high, made of old packing crates and strips of sheet metal, the walls stuffed with cardboard and rags.
▪ The informant showed gun crates marked with the names of Norinco and Poly Technologies to an undercover agent.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hearst had to pay 65 laborers for nine months to dismantle the monastery, crate it up and move it.
▪ The $ 3 million Mitsubishi scoreboard lay crated in a loading area.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
crate

crate \crate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crated; p. pr. & vb. n. Crating.] To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crate

"large box," 1680s, earlier "hurdle, grillwork" (late 14c.), from Latin cratis "wickerwork, lattice, kitchen-rack," or from Dutch krat "basket;" both perhaps from a common PIE root *kert- "to turn, entwine" (see hurdle (n.)).

crate

"to put in a crate," 1871, from crate (n.). Related: Crated; crating.\n

Wiktionary
crate

n. A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods. vb. 1 To put into a crate. 2 To keep in a crate.

WordNet
crate
  1. n. a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping

  2. the quantity contained in a crate [syn: crateful]

crate

v. put into a crate; as for protection; "crate the paintings before shipping them to the museum" [ant: uncrate]

Wikipedia
Crate (disambiguation)

A crate is a large strong container, often made of wood.

Crate may also refer to:

  • Crate Township, Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States
  • Ilyushin Il-14 (NATO reporting name: Crate), a Soviet aircraft
  • " The Crate", a short story by Stephen King
  • Crate Entertainment, a US video game developer
  • Cajón or crate, a percussion instrument in Peru
  • CrateIO, a fully searchable document oriented data store
Crate

A crate is a large shipping container, often made of wood, typically used to transport or store large, heavy or awkward items. Steel and aluminium crates are also used. Specialized crates were designed for specific products, and were often made to be reusable, such as the "bottle crates" for milk and softdrinks.

Crates can be made of wood, plastic, metal or other materials. The term 'crate' often implies a large and strong container. Most plastic crates are smaller and are more commonly called a case or container. Metal is rarely used because of its weight. When metal is used, a crate is often constructed as an 'open crate' and may be termed a 'cage'. Although a crate may be made of any material, for these reasons, the term 'crate' used alone often implies one constructed of wood.

Usage examples of "crate".

The workmen dragged some slab-sided crates into position for stairs, and Chief Speaker Admi climbed them to stand on the platform.

Only, one of their crates got lost in transit, then they had a problem with some weird connectors and had to have replacements airfreighted from Taiwan.

At nightfall, when the first travelers would arrive, the place was uncrowded and peaceful, but by dawn it had been transformed into a fairground, with a mass of hammocks hanging at different levels and Aruac Indians from the mountains sleeping on their haunches, with the raging of the tethered goats, and the uproar of the fighting cocks in their pharaonic crates, and the panting silence of the mountain dogs, who had been taught not to bark because of the dangers of war.

I was glad, as I had not been very happy crossing the Voldan Ocean from Karis to Auris in the ancient crate that Gompth had furnished us.

Half a year after Peter Cardinal died, in the spring of 1988, Gene showed up in Nairobi with twenty shipping crates full of biohazard gear and scientific equipment.

Then he pulled forth a small bowl of the blackest stone and set it upon another crate.

Haskins sat down on the floor, placing the torch on the small crate Chris used for a table, so that it made a round spot of light on the boards overhead.

He vaulted the brix wall, landing with one booted foot in a tumbled crate of shattered sparkling water flasks.

He acted with the same circumspection as he had in the Cagliari pits, forcing open crates and boxes, when this was necessary, with the greatest of care so that they could be closed again to show the absolute minimum of offered violence.

With each breath she took she could smell the ripe casaba melons displayed on wooden tables made of old crates.

But the Chukchi woman returned just then and took the crate, glancing at him as she did so.

We need money, and taking these crates of Mithas Brandy south to Cuda will get us money.

Troy said, and looked over a short crate to get a layout of the cultist locations.

I imagined her decoupaging orange crates, making clever hanging ornaments out of egg cartons festooned with plastic sprigs of lily of the valley.

As Stewart walked down the row of crates containing dogs, a big Doberman suddenly charged the door of its cage, snarling and even biting the bars in frenzy.