Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
2. (slang, mildly derogatory) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
3. (programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
4. (transitive) To put into a crate.
5. (transitive) To keep in a crate.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• crates
• crating
• crated

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Use crate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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