Crane
noun
A large bird with long legs and a long neck.
The wetland is home to different species of cranes.
Often appears as...
- crane fly
- crane operator
noun
A tall machine used for moving heavy objects by suspending them from a beam.
A truck mounted crane towed the wrecked car out of the ditch.
Often appears as...
- crane operator
- tower crane
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To stretch out one's body or neck in order to see something.
She had to crane her neck to see the movie screen.
Often appears as...
- crane your neck
- crane to see
noun
A large bird with long legs and a long neck.
The wetland is home to different species of cranes.
Often appears as...
- crane fly
- crane operator
noun
A tall machine used for moving heavy objects by suspending them from a beam.
A truck mounted crane towed the wrecked car out of the ditch.
Often appears as...
- crane operator
- tower crane
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To stretch out one's body or neck in order to see something.
She had to crane her neck to see the movie screen.
Often appears as...
- crane your neck
- crane to see
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Pro Tip 1/3Bird Characteristics
The term 'crane' as a bird refers to its long legs and neck, aiding identification.
Spotting the crane among the birds was easy thanks to its towering legs.
Pro Tip 2/3Habitat Context
Cranes are often associated with wetlands and open grasslands in conversations.
We observed the cranes in their natural marshy habitat.
Pro Tip 3/3Migratory Species
Talk of cranes may refer to their migration, a notable aspect of their behavior.
The cranes migrate south for the winter.
Pro Tip 1/3Bird Characteristics
The term 'crane' as a bird refers to its long legs and neck, aiding identification.
Spotting the crane among the birds was easy thanks to its towering legs.
Pro Tip 2/3Habitat Context
Cranes are often associated with wetlands and open grasslands in conversations.
We observed the cranes in their natural marshy habitat.
Pro Tip 3/3Migratory Species
Talk of cranes may refer to their migration, a notable aspect of their behavior.
The cranes migrate south for the winter.
Pro Tip 1/3Bird Characteristics
The term 'crane' as a bird refers to its long legs and neck, aiding identification.
Spotting the crane among the birds was easy thanks to its towering legs.
Pro Tip 2/3Habitat Context
Cranes are often associated with wetlands and open grasslands in conversations.
We observed the cranes in their natural marshy habitat.
Pro Tip 3/3Migratory Species
Talk of cranes may refer to their migration, a notable aspect of their behavior.
The cranes migrate south for the winter.
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Video examples
The Chinese myth of the...
she put the herb under her tongue for safekeeping, but its magic forced both of them into their true forms. As the crane’s long beak clamped around her, the Old Man appeared. Why, he asked, would she risk her life to steal his herb when she was already immortal?
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Baby Albatross Encounter...
and just craning their necks. They're just so characterful. So characterful, but yeah so vulnerable on top of that mountain. We had just been filming three different chicks in the colony and three different three different spots and getting to know them.
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An underwater art...
to encourage crustaceans such as lobsters and sea urchins. So why exhibit my work in the ocean? Because honestly, it's really not easy. When you're in the middle of the sea under a hundred-foot crane, trying to lower eight tons down to the sea floor,
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Thoughts on humanity,...
You went wherever life took you for work, and people were mostly welcoming of you. Migration was a term then still reserved for Siberian cranes, not human beings. Most importantly, you were who you were and you said what you thought.
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Great Pyramid Mystery...
you raise blocks all the way to the top of a four hundred and eighty foot pyramid we saw that there were real problems with either a single ramp or a spiral ramp and lifting cranes certainly don't do the job so how do you do it
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The warning sounds of a...
like the breaking of a dam the glaciers upstream will accelerate 2 to 3 4 times their normal speed that ice gets funneled directly into the ocean and raises sea level this is the crane glacier which used to flow into the
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World's Largest...
we're going to get this fish up into the pool and we're waiting for the cranes arrived so we can get a weight on this fish this very well could be a world record fish so we want to make sure we get a weight
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Masters of Migration PIPE...
morning of eating all the corn they can find the cranes return to the playa to rest and digest sandhill cranes mate for life and stay together in family units it's easy to pick out families of three
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Mega-Crane in the...
thanks to him tower construction doesn't have to stop he goes there because he knows exactly revelatory do Joe has to be done he's not afraid of that I'm sure if you would take just a crane operator
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What almost dying taught...
I don't do any of these things. I hate yoga, and I have no idea how to fold an origami crane. The truth is that for me, the hardest part of my cancer experience began once the cancer was gone.
Video examples
The Chinese myth of the...
she put the herb under her tongue for safekeeping, but its magic forced both of them into their true forms. As the crane’s long beak clamped around her, the Old Man appeared. Why, he asked, would she risk her life to steal his herb when she was already immortal?
Video examples
Baby Albatross Encounter...
and just craning their necks. They're just so characterful. So characterful, but yeah so vulnerable on top of that mountain. We had just been filming three different chicks in the colony and three different three different spots and getting to know them.
Video examples
An underwater art...
to encourage crustaceans such as lobsters and sea urchins. So why exhibit my work in the ocean? Because honestly, it's really not easy. When you're in the middle of the sea under a hundred-foot crane, trying to lower eight tons down to the sea floor,
Video examples
Thoughts on humanity,...
You went wherever life took you for work, and people were mostly welcoming of you. Migration was a term then still reserved for Siberian cranes, not human beings. Most importantly, you were who you were and you said what you thought.
Video examples
Great Pyramid Mystery...
you raise blocks all the way to the top of a four hundred and eighty foot pyramid we saw that there were real problems with either a single ramp or a spiral ramp and lifting cranes certainly don't do the job so how do you do it
Video examples
The warning sounds of a...
like the breaking of a dam the glaciers upstream will accelerate 2 to 3 4 times their normal speed that ice gets funneled directly into the ocean and raises sea level this is the crane glacier which used to flow into the
Video examples
World's Largest...
we're going to get this fish up into the pool and we're waiting for the cranes arrived so we can get a weight on this fish this very well could be a world record fish so we want to make sure we get a weight
Video examples
Masters of Migration PIPE...
morning of eating all the corn they can find the cranes return to the playa to rest and digest sandhill cranes mate for life and stay together in family units it's easy to pick out families of three
Video examples
Mega-Crane in the...
thanks to him tower construction doesn't have to stop he goes there because he knows exactly revelatory do Joe has to be done he's not afraid of that I'm sure if you would take just a crane operator
Video examples
What almost dying taught...
I don't do any of these things. I hate yoga, and I have no idea how to fold an origami crane. The truth is that for me, the hardest part of my cancer experience began once the cancer was gone.
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Quote examples
Ruchi Sanghvi
Indian Businesswoman
My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.
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James Cromwell
American Actor
I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.
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A. J. Bowen
American Actor
A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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Nicolas Cage
Actor
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.
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Lars von Trier
Danish Director
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.
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F. Gary Gray
American Director
Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
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Chanakya
Indian Politician
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
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Gaspar Noe
Argentinian Director
I enjoyed using cranes and using all these CGI images on 'Enter the Void.
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Alex Shoumatoff
American Writer
In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
Quote examples
Ruchi Sanghvi
Indian Businesswoman
My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.
Quote examples
James Cromwell
American Actor
I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.
Quote examples
A. J. Bowen
American Actor
A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
Quote examples
Nicolas Cage
Actor
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.
Quote examples
Lars von Trier
Danish Director
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
Quote examples
Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.
Quote examples
F. Gary Gray
American Director
Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.
Quote examples
Chanakya
Indian Politician
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Quote examples
Gaspar Noe
Argentinian Director
I enjoyed using cranes and using all these CGI images on 'Enter the Void.
Quote examples
Alex Shoumatoff
American Writer
In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
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