Definition of crate in English:

crate

noun kreɪtkreɪt

1A slatted wooden case used for transporting goods.
（运输货物的）板条箱，柳条箱
a crate of bananas
一箱香蕉。
Example sentencesExamples
- His cart was stacked three deep with myriad wooden crates and boxes.
- Once the moulds were made, the task of shipping them back, each piece carefully wrapped and packed in wooden crates, was an even more difficult and expensive business.
- At the end of the Second World War, flowers were purchased from Covent Garden Market and delivered by rail in returnable wooden crates.
- They hid behind wooden crates till the noise faded.
- He didn't have a stool to sit on, he managed to balance himself on a wooden crate.
- Big sheds, walls of wooden crates and brightly painted processing plants dot fertile valleys.
- Flea markets, and summer produce stands are great places to shop for previously used wooden crates.
- Undisclosed sums of money were exchanged and the two large wooden crates arrived in the basement of the Schomburg
- Upstairs Cole found piles of boxes and wooden crates.
- Catherine was sitting back against the wooden crates with her eyes closed for a while when she heard that familiar voice which she had been dying to hear throughout the evening.
- We also use colorful signs, a banner with a rooster on it, old wooden chicken crates and egg baskets - anything we can think of to draw people in.
- As summer arrived, so did the big wooden crates bringing wonderful dolls, mechanical toys, pedal cars, tricycles, scooters, dolls' prams.
- We built go-carts out of wooden crates and bits of scrap metal.
- It was lined with the backsides of an assortment of brick buildings and had wooden crates of varying sizes stacked at random intervals next to each one.
- The captain put down his cup on a stack of wooden crates.
- Next to the walls, on the inside, are large wooden crates.
- The training included learning how to blow up 27 wooden crates - a test he passed.
- It's also capable of bashing open wooden crates.
- There were cobwebs and old wooden crates and barrels scattered carelessly about; evidently, this place had once been used for storage.
- I walked a bit further, climbing over old wooden crates and soaked cardboard boxes.
Synonyms
case, packing case, chest, coffer, trunk, box, casket, strongbox, basket, hamper, pack, bin, drum, container, receptacle
technical lug
1. 1.1 A square rigid container divided into small units, used for transporting or storing bottles.
  （分成小格的运输或存放瓶子的金属或塑料）方格箱
  a milk crate
  瓶装牛奶箱。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Clayton park site was abused by people dumping stacks of paper and crates of beer bottles on the ground instead of in the bin.
  We would often finish a night there with a group of ten or so of us heading to my place laden with bottles of wine and crates of beer.
  In the absence of a nicer box, which I intend to get later, I put the short sleeves shirts stacked in a milk crate set on its side atop the pine boxes.
  As a treat, I was allowed to choose a bottle of soft drink from the crates stored in the back room.
  The truck driver slams on his brakes, and the back of the truck pops open, spilling out at least six crates of water bottles.
  In wintertime I stored perishables in a milk crate on the porch roof outside the large window.
  The porch was full of crates of beer bottles and bags of rubbish.
  It was the sound of milk bottles being dropped into crates and loaded on to lorries.
  For some reason, there were crates of water bottles in the girls' locker room: maybe for a team sport.
  It was only wide enough for a small sofa, an old metal milk crate and a few shelves where he stored bottles of wine and various sizes of canned foods.
  A number of milk bottle crates fell on top of him, covering him in broken glass.
  After an hour, Phillip carried one of the crates of bottles to the haggard, and with a corkscrew he deftly pulled the corks from them, handing one to each man.
  Nowadays it is common for the World of Wines to sell crates containing 12 bottles of wine.
  This summer, a pregnant woman got a ticket for sitting down on the subway steps, a man for sitting on a milk crate on the side of a sidewalk, and a store owner for too many words on his sign.
  During routine investigations at the scene police discovered a crate with empty beer bottles lying next to the car.
  Ah, you have a huge crate of empty wine bottles back in the kitchens, right?
  Plastic milk crates often serve as flexible storage units for penny-pinching college students.
  So I've made sure the flat is ready for them - a fresh crate of beer and two bottles of wine in the fridge.
  The stout guy disappeared for a moment, then returned with a crate of bottles.
  I looked out at the field and the team was huddled along the sideline, and Dylan was standing out side it with a crate full of water bottles.
  Synonyms
  carton, pack, packet, package
2informal An old and dilapidated vehicle.
〈非正式，旧〉破旧车辆
you wouldn't believe the age of some of the crates I've driven
Synonyms
automobile, motor vehicle, motorized vehicle, means of transport, conveyance, machine

verb kreɪtkreɪt

[with object]

Pack (something) in a crate for transportation.
把…装在板条箱（或柳条箱等）内
fruit and vegetables were being sorted and crated
Example sentencesExamples
- It took Matt only four days to disassemble and crate the plane.
- He usually kept the eggs and chickens that he obtained on the route, candled and crated them, and sold them to a man who came to his home to buy them.
- They would have got far more on the open market and for that they undertook to crate it in new containers and ship it to Liverpool, which is how for us the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world started.
- They packed their bags with their clothes and personal effects, then crated their armor and weapons for transport in the ships cargo bay.
- But shortly after, they crated weapons far greater than they could control and the great war that caused our evolutions began.
- Professionals are obligated to crate artwork according to standards that prevent items from being damaged in transit.
- They crated the contents of the Amber Room, the chairs, tables and ornaments carved from the precious resin, but the walls proved too intricate to dismantle quickly.
Synonyms
package, pack, parcel, wrap, bundle, bale, crate

Derivatives

crateful

nounPlural cratefuls

It was to these depths that Nazi gold was said to have been sent by the crateful in the final mad days before total capitulation.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘We were delighted to donate 17 cratefuls of non-perishable items to Second Harvest,’ said the community relations manager.
- The Manchester firm decided to commemorate her visit to the city and made a crateful for the first night of her Re-invention tour.
- About 80% of homes now have DVD players, and consumers are buying large-screen sets by the crateful.

Origin

Late Middle English: perhaps related to Dutch krat 'tailboard of a wagon', earlier 'box of a coach', of unknown origin.

Rhymes

abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight

Definition of crate in US English:

crate

nounkreɪtkrāt

1A slatted wooden case used for transporting or storing goods.
（运输货物的）板条箱，柳条箱
a crate of bananas
一箱香蕉。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was lined with the backsides of an assortment of brick buildings and had wooden crates of varying sizes stacked at random intervals next to each one.
- At the end of the Second World War, flowers were purchased from Covent Garden Market and delivered by rail in returnable wooden crates.
- The captain put down his cup on a stack of wooden crates.
- Undisclosed sums of money were exchanged and the two large wooden crates arrived in the basement of the Schomburg
- As summer arrived, so did the big wooden crates bringing wonderful dolls, mechanical toys, pedal cars, tricycles, scooters, dolls' prams.
- It's also capable of bashing open wooden crates.
- Upstairs Cole found piles of boxes and wooden crates.
- Flea markets, and summer produce stands are great places to shop for previously used wooden crates.
- I walked a bit further, climbing over old wooden crates and soaked cardboard boxes.
- They hid behind wooden crates till the noise faded.
- Next to the walls, on the inside, are large wooden crates.
- Big sheds, walls of wooden crates and brightly painted processing plants dot fertile valleys.
- Once the moulds were made, the task of shipping them back, each piece carefully wrapped and packed in wooden crates, was an even more difficult and expensive business.
- His cart was stacked three deep with myriad wooden crates and boxes.
- Catherine was sitting back against the wooden crates with her eyes closed for a while when she heard that familiar voice which she had been dying to hear throughout the evening.
- We built go-carts out of wooden crates and bits of scrap metal.
- There were cobwebs and old wooden crates and barrels scattered carelessly about; evidently, this place had once been used for storage.
- The training included learning how to blow up 27 wooden crates - a test he passed.
- We also use colorful signs, a banner with a rooster on it, old wooden chicken crates and egg baskets - anything we can think of to draw people in.
- He didn't have a stool to sit on, he managed to balance himself on a wooden crate.
Synonyms
case, packing case, chest, coffer, trunk, box, casket, strongbox, basket, hamper, pack, bin, drum, container, receptacle
1. 1.1 A square metal or plastic container divided into small individual units, used for transporting or storing bottles.
  （分成小格的运输或存放瓶子的金属或塑料）方格箱
  a milk crate
  瓶装牛奶箱。
  a crate of beer
  一箱啤酒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The stout guy disappeared for a moment, then returned with a crate of bottles.
  For some reason, there were crates of water bottles in the girls' locker room: maybe for a team sport.
  The Clayton park site was abused by people dumping stacks of paper and crates of beer bottles on the ground instead of in the bin.
  Nowadays it is common for the World of Wines to sell crates containing 12 bottles of wine.
  The porch was full of crates of beer bottles and bags of rubbish.
  During routine investigations at the scene police discovered a crate with empty beer bottles lying next to the car.
  In the absence of a nicer box, which I intend to get later, I put the short sleeves shirts stacked in a milk crate set on its side atop the pine boxes.
  After an hour, Phillip carried one of the crates of bottles to the haggard, and with a corkscrew he deftly pulled the corks from them, handing one to each man.
  Plastic milk crates often serve as flexible storage units for penny-pinching college students.
  Ah, you have a huge crate of empty wine bottles back in the kitchens, right?
  The truck driver slams on his brakes, and the back of the truck pops open, spilling out at least six crates of water bottles.
  So I've made sure the flat is ready for them - a fresh crate of beer and two bottles of wine in the fridge.
  A number of milk bottle crates fell on top of him, covering him in broken glass.
  This summer, a pregnant woman got a ticket for sitting down on the subway steps, a man for sitting on a milk crate on the side of a sidewalk, and a store owner for too many words on his sign.
  It was only wide enough for a small sofa, an old metal milk crate and a few shelves where he stored bottles of wine and various sizes of canned foods.
  As a treat, I was allowed to choose a bottle of soft drink from the crates stored in the back room.
  In wintertime I stored perishables in a milk crate on the porch roof outside the large window.
  I looked out at the field and the team was huddled along the sideline, and Dylan was standing out side it with a crate full of water bottles.
  It was the sound of milk bottles being dropped into crates and loaded on to lorries.
  We would often finish a night there with a group of ten or so of us heading to my place laden with bottles of wine and crates of beer.
  Synonyms
  carton, pack, packet, package
2informal An old and dilapidated vehicle.
〈非正式，旧〉破旧车辆
Synonyms
automobile, motor vehicle, motorized vehicle, means of transport, conveyance, machine

verbkreɪtkrāt

[with object]

Pack (something) in a crate for transportation.
把…装在板条箱（或柳条箱等）内
Example sentencesExamples
- Professionals are obligated to crate artwork according to standards that prevent items from being damaged in transit.
- It took Matt only four days to disassemble and crate the plane.
- They packed their bags with their clothes and personal effects, then crated their armor and weapons for transport in the ships cargo bay.
- They crated the contents of the Amber Room, the chairs, tables and ornaments carved from the precious resin, but the walls proved too intricate to dismantle quickly.
- But shortly after, they crated weapons far greater than they could control and the great war that caused our evolutions began.
- They would have got far more on the open market and for that they undertook to crate it in new containers and ship it to Liverpool, which is how for us the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world started.
- He usually kept the eggs and chickens that he obtained on the route, candled and crated them, and sold them to a man who came to his home to buy them.
Synonyms
package, pack, parcel, wrap, bundle, bale, crate

Origin

Late Middle English: perhaps related to Dutch krat ‘tailboard of a wagon’, earlier ‘box of a coach’, of unknown origin.

单词	crate
释义	Definition of crate in English: crate noun kreɪtkreɪt 1A slatted wooden case used for transporting goods. （运输货物的）板条箱，柳条箱 a crate of bananas 一箱香蕉。 Example sentencesExamples His cart was stacked three deep with myriad wooden crates and boxes. Once the moulds were made, the task of shipping them back, each piece carefully wrapped and packed in wooden crates, was an even more difficult and expensive business. At the end of the Second World War, flowers were purchased from Covent Garden Market and delivered by rail in returnable wooden crates. They hid behind wooden crates till the noise faded. He didn't have a stool to sit on, he managed to balance himself on a wooden crate. Big sheds, walls of wooden crates and brightly painted processing plants dot fertile valleys. Flea markets, and summer produce stands are great places to shop for previously used wooden crates. Undisclosed sums of money were exchanged and the two large wooden crates arrived in the basement of the Schomburg Upstairs Cole found piles of boxes and wooden crates. Catherine was sitting back against the wooden crates with her eyes closed for a while when she heard that familiar voice which she had been dying to hear throughout the evening. We also use colorful signs, a banner with a rooster on it, old wooden chicken crates and egg baskets - anything we can think of to draw people in. As summer arrived, so did the big wooden crates bringing wonderful dolls, mechanical toys, pedal cars, tricycles, scooters, dolls' prams. We built go-carts out of wooden crates and bits of scrap metal. It was lined with the backsides of an assortment of brick buildings and had wooden crates of varying sizes stacked at random intervals next to each one. The captain put down his cup on a stack of wooden crates. Next to the walls, on the inside, are large wooden crates. The training included learning how to blow up 27 wooden crates - a test he passed. It's also capable of bashing open wooden crates. There were cobwebs and old wooden crates and barrels scattered carelessly about; evidently, this place had once been used for storage. I walked a bit further, climbing over old wooden crates and soaked cardboard boxes. Synonyms case, packing case, chest, coffer, trunk, box, casket, strongbox, basket, hamper, pack, bin, drum, container, receptacle technical lug 1.1 A square rigid container divided into small units, used for transporting or storing bottles. （分成小格的运输或存放瓶子的金属或塑料）方格箱 a milk crate 瓶装牛奶箱。 Example sentencesExamples The Clayton park site was abused by people dumping stacks of paper and crates of beer bottles on the ground instead of in the bin. We would often finish a night there with a group of ten or so of us heading to my place laden with bottles of wine and crates of beer. In the absence of a nicer box, which I intend to get later, I put the short sleeves shirts stacked in a milk crate set on its side atop the pine boxes. As a treat, I was allowed to choose a bottle of soft drink from the crates stored in the back room. The truck driver slams on his brakes, and the back of the truck pops open, spilling out at least six crates of water bottles. In wintertime I stored perishables in a milk crate on the porch roof outside the large window. The porch was full of crates of beer bottles and bags of rubbish. It was the sound of milk bottles being dropped into crates and loaded on to lorries. For some reason, there were crates of water bottles in the girls' locker room: maybe for a team sport. It was only wide enough for a small sofa, an old metal milk crate and a few shelves where he stored bottles of wine and various sizes of canned foods. A number of milk bottle crates fell on top of him, covering him in broken glass. After an hour, Phillip carried one of the crates of bottles to the haggard, and with a corkscrew he deftly pulled the corks from them, handing one to each man. Nowadays it is common for the World of Wines to sell crates containing 12 bottles of wine. This summer, a pregnant woman got a ticket for sitting down on the subway steps, a man for sitting on a milk crate on the side of a sidewalk, and a store owner for too many words on his sign. During routine investigations at the scene police discovered a crate with empty beer bottles lying next to the car. Ah, you have a huge crate of empty wine bottles back in the kitchens, right? Plastic milk crates often serve as flexible storage units for penny-pinching college students. So I've made sure the flat is ready for them - a fresh crate of beer and two bottles of wine in the fridge. The stout guy disappeared for a moment, then returned with a crate of bottles. I looked out at the field and the team was huddled along the sideline, and Dylan was standing out side it with a crate full of water bottles. Synonyms carton, pack, packet, package 2informal An old and dilapidated vehicle. 〈非正式，旧〉破旧车辆 you wouldn't believe the age of some of the crates I've driven Synonyms automobile, motor vehicle, motorized vehicle, means of transport, conveyance, machine verb kreɪtkreɪt [with object] Pack (something) in a crate for transportation. 把…装在板条箱（或柳条箱等）内 fruit and vegetables were being sorted and crated Example sentencesExamples It took Matt only four days to disassemble and crate the plane. He usually kept the eggs and chickens that he obtained on the route, candled and crated them, and sold them to a man who came to his home to buy them. They would have got far more on the open market and for that they undertook to crate it in new containers and ship it to Liverpool, which is how for us the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world started. They packed their bags with their clothes and personal effects, then crated their armor and weapons for transport in the ships cargo bay. But shortly after, they crated weapons far greater than they could control and the great war that caused our evolutions began. Professionals are obligated to crate artwork according to standards that prevent items from being damaged in transit. They crated the contents of the Amber Room, the chairs, tables and ornaments carved from the precious resin, but the walls proved too intricate to dismantle quickly. Synonyms package, pack, parcel, wrap, bundle, bale, crate Derivatives crateful nounPlural cratefuls It was to these depths that Nazi gold was said to have been sent by the crateful in the final mad days before total capitulation. Example sentencesExamples ‘We were delighted to donate 17 cratefuls of non-perishable items to Second Harvest,’ said the community relations manager. The Manchester firm decided to commemorate her visit to the city and made a crateful for the first night of her Re-invention tour. About 80% of homes now have DVD players, and consumers are buying large-screen sets by the crateful. Origin Late Middle English: perhaps related to Dutch krat 'tailboard of a wagon', earlier 'box of a coach', of unknown origin. Rhymes abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of crate in US English: crate nounkreɪtkrāt 1A slatted wooden case used for transporting or storing goods. （运输货物的）板条箱，柳条箱 a crate of bananas 一箱香蕉。 Example sentencesExamples It was lined with the backsides of an assortment of brick buildings and had wooden crates of varying sizes stacked at random intervals next to each one. At the end of the Second World War, flowers were purchased from Covent Garden Market and delivered by rail in returnable wooden crates. The captain put down his cup on a stack of wooden crates. Undisclosed sums of money were exchanged and the two large wooden crates arrived in the basement of the Schomburg As summer arrived, so did the big wooden crates bringing wonderful dolls, mechanical toys, pedal cars, tricycles, scooters, dolls' prams. It's also capable of bashing open wooden crates. Upstairs Cole found piles of boxes and wooden crates. Flea markets, and summer produce stands are great places to shop for previously used wooden crates. I walked a bit further, climbing over old wooden crates and soaked cardboard boxes. They hid behind wooden crates till the noise faded. Next to the walls, on the inside, are large wooden crates. Big sheds, walls of wooden crates and brightly painted processing plants dot fertile valleys. Once the moulds were made, the task of shipping them back, each piece carefully wrapped and packed in wooden crates, was an even more difficult and expensive business. His cart was stacked three deep with myriad wooden crates and boxes. Catherine was sitting back against the wooden crates with her eyes closed for a while when she heard that familiar voice which she had been dying to hear throughout the evening. We built go-carts out of wooden crates and bits of scrap metal. There were cobwebs and old wooden crates and barrels scattered carelessly about; evidently, this place had once been used for storage. The training included learning how to blow up 27 wooden crates - a test he passed. We also use colorful signs, a banner with a rooster on it, old wooden chicken crates and egg baskets - anything we can think of to draw people in. He didn't have a stool to sit on, he managed to balance himself on a wooden crate. Synonyms case, packing case, chest, coffer, trunk, box, casket, strongbox, basket, hamper, pack, bin, drum, container, receptacle 1.1 A square metal or plastic container divided into small individual units, used for transporting or storing bottles. （分成小格的运输或存放瓶子的金属或塑料）方格箱 a milk crate 瓶装牛奶箱。 a crate of beer 一箱啤酒。 Example sentencesExamples The stout guy disappeared for a moment, then returned with a crate of bottles. For some reason, there were crates of water bottles in the girls' locker room: maybe for a team sport. The Clayton park site was abused by people dumping stacks of paper and crates of beer bottles on the ground instead of in the bin. Nowadays it is common for the World of Wines to sell crates containing 12 bottles of wine. The porch was full of crates of beer bottles and bags of rubbish. During routine investigations at the scene police discovered a crate with empty beer bottles lying next to the car. In the absence of a nicer box, which I intend to get later, I put the short sleeves shirts stacked in a milk crate set on its side atop the pine boxes. After an hour, Phillip carried one of the crates of bottles to the haggard, and with a corkscrew he deftly pulled the corks from them, handing one to each man. Plastic milk crates often serve as flexible storage units for penny-pinching college students. Ah, you have a huge crate of empty wine bottles back in the kitchens, right? The truck driver slams on his brakes, and the back of the truck pops open, spilling out at least six crates of water bottles. So I've made sure the flat is ready for them - a fresh crate of beer and two bottles of wine in the fridge. A number of milk bottle crates fell on top of him, covering him in broken glass. This summer, a pregnant woman got a ticket for sitting down on the subway steps, a man for sitting on a milk crate on the side of a sidewalk, and a store owner for too many words on his sign. It was only wide enough for a small sofa, an old metal milk crate and a few shelves where he stored bottles of wine and various sizes of canned foods. As a treat, I was allowed to choose a bottle of soft drink from the crates stored in the back room. In wintertime I stored perishables in a milk crate on the porch roof outside the large window. I looked out at the field and the team was huddled along the sideline, and Dylan was standing out side it with a crate full of water bottles. It was the sound of milk bottles being dropped into crates and loaded on to lorries. We would often finish a night there with a group of ten or so of us heading to my place laden with bottles of wine and crates of beer. Synonyms carton, pack, packet, package 2informal An old and dilapidated vehicle. 〈非正式，旧〉破旧车辆 Synonyms automobile, motor vehicle, motorized vehicle, means of transport, conveyance, machine verbkreɪtkrāt [with object] Pack (something) in a crate for transportation. 把…装在板条箱（或柳条箱等）内 Example sentencesExamples Professionals are obligated to crate artwork according to standards that prevent items from being damaged in transit. It took Matt only four days to disassemble and crate the plane. They packed their bags with their clothes and personal effects, then crated their armor and weapons for transport in the ships cargo bay. They crated the contents of the Amber Room, the chairs, tables and ornaments carved from the precious resin, but the walls proved too intricate to dismantle quickly. But shortly after, they crated weapons far greater than they could control and the great war that caused our evolutions began. They would have got far more on the open market and for that they undertook to crate it in new containers and ship it to Liverpool, which is how for us the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world started. He usually kept the eggs and chickens that he obtained on the route, candled and crated them, and sold them to a man who came to his home to buy them. Synonyms package, pack, parcel, wrap, bundle, bale, crate Origin Late Middle English: perhaps related to Dutch krat ‘tailboard of a wagon’, earlier ‘box of a coach’, of unknown origin.
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