crate
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.
to pack in a crate.
Origin of crate
1Other words from crate
- re·crate, verb (used with object), re·crat·ed, re·crat·ing.
- un·crate, verb (used with object), un·crat·ed, un·crat·ing.
- un·crat·ed, adjective
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How to use crate in a sentence
In two hours, the Soviets would wake with sore heads and start to count their crates at the train station.
Lunik: Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite | Bobbie Johnson | January 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewOne tip is to leave the pet alone in a crate or other area for up to an hour at a time so they get used to being alone.
So many pets have been adopted during the pandemic that shelters are running out | Dana Hedgpeth | January 6, 2021 | Washington PostI kept their poetry safely packaged in a crate padded with literary scholarship.
I didn’t think I understood modern poetry. The less I tried to get it, the more I came to love it. | Ron Charles | December 4, 2020 | Washington PostWith six flavors, these treats were created by a chef from the renowned Culinary Institute of America and come in a basswood cookie crate that can be used later to store magazines, catalogs or papers.
When a dog is calm and tired post-walk, Mynchenberg likes to take advantage of that time to work on essentials that are tough when a dog is amped up, like crate training.
A crate of the stuff arrived at the studio, compliments of the Plaza Athénée.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI climbed into the crate—82 inches long, 26 inches wide, and 11.5 inches deep—in late October.
Christie Bows to Iowa’s Pork Kings on Gestation Crates | Olivia Nuzzi | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBeside the bed, there was a table made from a small wooden crate.
Stanley Booth on the Life and Hard Times of Blues Genius Furry Lewis | Stanley Booth | June 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt 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.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.When I picked myself up, I saw half the men securing the crate and the other half grovelling around something on the deck.
Jaffery | William J. LockeSo he gave a jump out of the net, but, in a second he found himself inside the wooden crate, or box.
Mappo, the Merry Monkey | Richard BarnumThen Mappo looked at the crate in which the tiger was being carried along through the jungle.
Mappo, the Merry Monkey | Richard Barnum
British Dictionary definitions for crate
/ (kreɪt) /
a fairly large container, usually made of wooden slats or wickerwork, used for packing, storing, or transporting goods
slang an old car, aeroplane, etc
(tr) to pack or place in a crate
Origin of crate
1Derived forms of crate
- crater, noun
- crateful, noun
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