Crate

Quick meaning: Crate is a noun meaning A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.

Meaning

A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.

More Meanings

1. (programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
2. (transitive) To put into a crate.
3. (transitive) To keep in a crate.
4. (slang, mildly derogatory) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Then, in 1941, decision was reached between the Chungking and American authorities to transport these fossils to the United States for safekeeping, and they were crated and moved to a warehouse in Ch’in-huang-tao, a small port city northeast of Peking, into the custody of the U.S. Marines.

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.

Word Forms

• crates
• crating
• crated

Synonyms for crate

Depending on context, synonyms include banger, beater, clunker, crock, flivver, hooptie.

Antonyms for crate

Common opposites include uncrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crateful, box, package, parcel, grille, cage.

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