Difference between Tippy and Crank

What is the difference between Tippy and Crank?

Tippy as a noun is a dandy. while Crank as a noun is a bent piece of an axle, or shaft, or an arm attached at right angles to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a circular action to a wheel or other mechanical device and create power; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

Tippy

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A dandy.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Fashionable, tip-top. In the height of fashion. Clever, neat, smart. Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds. Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable.

Crank

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To turn a crank.To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably.To produce or present a desired object.To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A bent piece of an axle, or shaft, or an arm attached at right angles to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a circular action to a wheel or other mechanical device and create power; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.An ill-tempered or nasty personmethamphetamine.A person who is considered strange to others. They may do strange things, or be a crank by nature.A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.A ship which, because of insufficient or poorly stowed ballast or cargo, is in danger of overturning

Example sentence: I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care.

We hope you now know whether to use Tippy or Crank in your sentence.

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