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crane has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 6 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for crane come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a small constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix
lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis
large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world
stretch (the neck) so as to see better
“The women craned their necks to see the President drive by”