Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
crank down
English answer:
lowering manually with a cranking mechanism
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airmailrpl
May 11, 2007 08:57
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English term
Italy
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crank down
English
Tech/Engineering
Mechanics / Mech Engineering
fin line
describing interface controlling the fin line:
"It may be necessary to home the draw stations by manually cranking them down to the hard stops and entering zeroes in the Current column"
...does it mean to stop progressively?
"It may be necessary to home the draw stations by manually cranking them down to the hard stops and entering zeroes in the Current column"
...does it mean to stop progressively?
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May 14, 2007 13:33: airmailrpl Created KOG entry
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airmailrpl
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lowering manually with a cranking mechanism
crank down => lowering manually with a cranking mechanism
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-05-11 11:33:53 GMT)
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Today's Lapidary Arts Digesthave been fortunate to own several faceting machines. My last one was an ... the hex wrench, I have to crank the angle crank down to a lower angle to ...
www.gemcutters.org/Archives/ILA/2003/august/Issue No. 190 -... -
Migra Matters: news roundupIn another facet of the scheme, between May 2005 and January 2006, ... Hastily unhooking the trailer, Williams had neglected to crank down the dolly wheels ...
migramatters.blogspot.com/search/label/news%20roundup
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-05-11 11:33:53 GMT)
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Today's Lapidary Arts Digesthave been fortunate to own several faceting machines. My last one was an ... the hex wrench, I have to crank the angle crank down to a lower angle to ...
www.gemcutters.org/Archives/ILA/2003/august/Issue No. 190 -... -
Migra Matters: news roundupIn another facet of the scheme, between May 2005 and January 2006, ... Hastily unhooking the trailer, Williams had neglected to crank down the dolly wheels ...
migramatters.blogspot.com/search/label/news%20roundup
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Mike Gogulski
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adjust in the negative direction
As with my answer to "hard stops", very hard to tell without more context, but...
This just means to make a negative adjustment. It could be by means of a physical crank, or the crank could be figurative.
Check the link for some usage examples outside of the common expression used for audio.
This just means to make a negative adjustment. It could be by means of a physical crank, or the crank could be figurative.
Check the link for some usage examples outside of the common expression used for audio.
Example sentence:
I love this song, but I can't hear it ... crank it up!
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Hakki Ucar
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to cause to diminish or terminate:
I think you are right , it must be to cause stopping here ..
--he president's efforts to crank down inflation.--
--he president's efforts to crank down inflation.--
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Harry Borsje
: not used in a figurative sense here
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it just came with reference link, but main phrasel verb is not wrong in my opinion
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lower it down by circulating the handle
"Crank down" usually means lowering an object by circulating the handle bar of the machine, such as, "crank down" a car jack when fixing car requiring a car jack is finished, or, "crank" down" a steel beam to lower it to the ground.
Example sentence:
"Crank down" the car jack now.
Peer comment(s):
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airmailrpl
: lower it down by "turning" the handle.. not "circulating"
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