To meet the demand for their baked goods, the plant has cranked up the speed of the production lines.
The volume was cranked up so high that he had to scream in order to talk to the woman next to him.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
crank out something — crank out (something) to produce something continually, like a machine. He regularly cranks out one movie a year and hasn t shown any signs of slowing down … New idioms dictionary
crank out — (something) to produce something continually, like a machine. He regularly cranks out one movie a year and hasn t shown any signs of slowing down … New idioms dictionary
crank up — (something) to increase something. To meet the demand for their baked goods, the plant has cranked up the speed of the production lines. The volume was cranked up so high that he had to scream in order to talk to the woman next to him … New idioms dictionary
crank out — verb produce in a routine or monotonous manner We have to crank out publications in order to receive funding • Syn: ↑grind out • Hypernyms: ↑produce, ↑bring forth • Verb Frames: Somebody s something … Useful english dictionary
crank — 1. n. a crackpot; a bothersome person with a bogus message. □ A crank called with a bomb threat. □ A crank came in and offered to punch me in the nose for a quarter. 2. mod. bogus. □ We had four crank calls threatening to blow up the Eiffel tower … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
crank — crank1 [kraŋk] n. [ME < OE cranc , as in crancstæf, yarn comb, CRINGE, CRINKLE: basic sense “something twisted”: for IE base see CRADLE] 1. a handle or arm bent at right angles and connected to a shaft of a machine, used to transmit motion or… … English World dictionary
Crank It Up (Ashley Tisdale song) — Crank It Up Single by Ashley Tisdale from the album Guilty Pleasure … Wikipedia
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Crank (Hoodoo Gurus album) — Crank Studio album by Hoodoo Gurus Released September 13, 1994 … Wikipedia
Crank (álbum) — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Crank Álbum de Hoodoo Gurus Publicación 13 de septiembre de 1994 Género(s) Rock … Wikipedia Español
