kammeta — meaning in English

English meaning

• crank noun A handle or arm turned to operate a machine or mechanism.
• pry verb To inquire into someone else's private affairs in a nosy or unwelcome way.

Senses

kammeta is used for these senses in English:

• crank (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
• pry To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.

crank — full definition

1. noun A handle or arm turned to operate a machine or mechanism.
2. noun A person seen as eccentric, obsessive, or holding strange fringe beliefs.
3. adjective Grouchy or irritable (informal, chiefly used as "cranky").
4. verb To turn using a crank, or to start a machine by turning one.

pry — full definition

1. verb To inquire into someone else's private affairs in a nosy or unwelcome way.
2. verb To force something open or lever it apart using a tool.
3. noun A tool used for levering something open, such as a crowbar.

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