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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
Cranfield University, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A river, Rivière du Cran (Cran River), in Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, Quebec, Canada, a tributary of the Ashuapmushuan River.
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name
Acronym of Comprehensive R Archive Network.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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noun
A measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified. It has oftentimes been about 371⁄2 imperial gallons, or ~750 herrings on average (up to 1200 or even ~2500).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A barrel made to hold such a measure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, obsolete, rare
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noun
An embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Alternative form of qiran.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
a capacity unit used for measuring fresh herring
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: volume unit, capacity unit, capacity measure, cubage unit, cubic measure, cubic content unit, displacement unit, cubature unit
History
Shortened form of Cranfield taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Evidently from, or at least influenced by Goidelic; compare Scottish Gaelic crann (“lot, measure of herring, tree, etc.”).
