* Crank ( person ), a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.

A Han-dynasty pottery model of two men operating a winnowing machine with a Crank ( mechanism ) | crank handle and a Trip hammer | tilt hammer used to pound grain.

This closure was also used as a 30-second promo for PBS stations with Jim Boyd ( as J. Arthur Crank ) doing the voice-over.

" Crank " is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.

Hefley was incensed at the tactics used in the election, particularly a mailed brochure from the Christian Coalition of Colorado associating Crank with " public support for members and efforts of the homosexual agenda.

In numerical analysis, the Crank – Nicolson method is a finite difference method used for numerically solving the heat equation and similar partial differential equations.

Various manufacturers have produced their own designs of clipless pedal systems over the years, most notably BeBop, Campagnolo, Coombe, Crank Brothers, LOOK, Shimano, Speedplay, and Time.

the most popular being, Soulja's " Crank Dat " move, which gained popularity throughout 2007 and 2008.

Note however, that for non-smooth final conditions ( which happen for most financial instruments ), the Crank – Nicolson method is not satisfactory as numerical oscillations are not damped.

* J. Arthur Crank ( Jim Boyd ): A plaid-wearing character who often interrupted sketches to complain when spellings or pronunciations confused him.

Crank magnetism is a term popularized by physiologist and blogger Mark Hoofnagle to describe the propensity of cranks to hold multiple irrational, unsupported or ludicrous beliefs that are often unrelated to one another.

The Crank – Nicolson method is often applied to diffusion problems.

Because a number of other phenomena can be modeled with the heat equation ( often called the diffusion equation in financial mathematics ), the Crank – Nicolson method has been applied to those areas as well.

Crank powered flashlights often have radios and other features.

He was the co-host and co-creator of the television program The Man Show ( 1999 – 2004 ), and the co-creator and a regular performer on the television show Crank Yankers ( 2002 – 2007 ).

In June 2008, on DJ Cisco's Urban Legend mixtape, Ice-T criticized DeAndre Cortez " Soulja Boy Tell ' Em " Way for " killing hip hop " and his song " Crank That " for being " garbage " compared to the works of other hip-hop artists such as Rakim, Das EFX, Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube.

* Lucifer's Crank cassette EP ( self issued, 1988, reissued on 7 " by Rough Trade No. 6 ( Karbon ), 1991, KAR 13 / 7 )

A version known as " Cars ( MPH Mix )" appeared on NASCAR: Crank It Up in 2002.

Pending Hashmeer's departure from the band Blade has taken over Vocals ( Talks / Shoutes ) and Blade's alleged son " Rowbby the Sheeth " as he is known in the " Waffle house Crank Call " bonus track at the end of " Stepping on the Crowtche owf Your Americain Presidaint " album has taken over Bass guitar in Blade's place.

; < span id =" crank "> Crank </ span >: To pull on a hold as hard as possible.

Crank toys are internally based on cams too but allow more complicated motions.

* The voice of " Frank Demore " on Crank Yankers

She served as a correspondent for HBO's Inside the NFL, hosted Comedy Central's popular show Premium Blend, and voiced a recurring character named Gladys on Comedy Central's puppet show Crank Yankers.

" Crank The System " was the band's first recording with Dedman in the line-up and was also the first of their releases on the new Shock subsidiary Pivotal.

Most recently he was seen on The Closer, Lincoln Heights season 3 premiere, Criminal Minds, Friday Night Lights and on the movie screen in Crank.

She owns a long stick with bells on it ( called ' The Crank ') and threatens students into behaving by shaking it in an aggressive manner, inevitably to hit them.

The piston is on the left, the Crank ( mechanism ) | crank is mounted on the flywheel axle on the right.

* Special Ed ( Jim Florentine ), a character on the TV show Crank Yankers

The square tower on the lower side of the bridge at the Galway end was erected to protect the old bridge, as was the Salt Battery, with emplacements for four cannons facing west and north, a few hundred yards from town along the Crank Road.

One is a detached seven-bay, two-storey building, called Crank House, due to its location on the corner of Main Street and Crank Road.

Evening and Sunday journeys on this service are numbered 356 and go via Crank approximately hourly.

* " Epiphany ", a song on the Crank: High Voltage ( soundtrack )

He appeared on the Comedy Central shows Crank Yankers and Reno 911 !.

Massey has also performed on TV in Greg the Bunny, Angel, Malcolm in the Middle, Muppets Tonight, Cousin Skeeter, Lost on Earth, and Crank Yankers ; and in TV advertisements for Foster Farms ( as the driver chicken ), Sony ( the blue guy ) and Levi's ( as Flat Eric ).

* Crank ( mechanism ), in mechanical engineering, a bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it

In 1913 he moved to Hopkin's Crank at Ditchling Common, two miles north of the village.

Also in 1978, Brown's single " Crank It Up " peaked in the Billboard Disco Chart at # 4.

Crank arms have a threaded hole ( or " eye ") at their outboard end to accommodate the pedal spindle.

Rare Roman Crank ( mechanism ) | crank handle, excavated at Augusta Raurica

Eat-Man is a series of short, episodic stories about an " explorer " ( a type of mercenary job ) named Bolt Crank, who has the ability to eat virtually anything, and can then produce from his body at will any object he has consumed.

then, letting, the equation for Crank – Nicolson method is a combination of the forward Euler method at and the backward Euler method at n + 1 ( note, however, that the method itself is not simply the average of those two methods, as the equation has an implicit dependence on the solution ):

Crank was trained in drama at the Oldham Theatre Workshop.

Crank torque is at 2950 rpm for the GT, and for the FT. Other differences from the normal 16V redblock engine are that it uses a remote mounted oil filter ( Away from block on exhaust side engine mount ) and a windage tray.