/kɹeɪt/
OriginFrom Dutch krat (“crate, large box, basket”), from Middle Dutch cratte (“basketware, mold”), from Old Dutch *kratta, *kratto (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kratjô, *krattijô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gretH- (“plaiting, wicker, basket, cradle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bind, twist, wind”).
Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow”), German Krätze (“basket”), Old English cræt, ceart (“cart, wagon, chariot”), Old Norse kartr (“wagon”), modern English cart. Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).
Alternatively from Latin crātis (“wickerwork”), perhaps from the same PIE root.
- A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
- In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
“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.”
- transitiveTo put into a crate.
“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’”
- transitiveTo keep in a crate.
Formscrates(plural) · crates(present, singular, third-person) · crating(participle, present) · crated(participle, past) · crated(past)