Eccentric vs. Crank — What's the Difference?

(of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange

Turn the crankshaft of (an internal combustion engine) in order to start the engine

Not placed centrally or not having its axis or other part placed centrally

Give a bend to (a shaft, bar, etc.)

A person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour

Inject a narcotic drug

A disc or wheel mounted eccentrically on a revolving shaft in order to transform rotation into backward-and-forward motion, e.g. a cam in an internal combustion engine.

A part of an axle or shaft bent out at right angles, for converting reciprocal to circular motion and vice versa

Departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern.

The drug methamphetamine.

Deviating from a circular form or path, as in an elliptical orbit.

An eccentric person, especially one who is obsessed by a particular subject

Not having the same center

A fanciful turn of speech.

Having the axis located elsewhere than at the geometric center.

(of a sailing ship) liable to heel over.

One that deviates markedly from an established norm, especially a person of odd or unconventional behavior.

A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft.

(Physics) A disk or wheel having its axis of revolution displaced from its center so that it is capable of imparting reciprocating motion.

A clever turn of speech; a verbal conceit

Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.

A peculiar or eccentric idea or action.

Not perfectly circular; elliptical.

A grouchy person.

Having a different center; not concentric.

An eccentric person, especially one who is unduly zealous.

(of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.

(Slang) Methamphetamine.

Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).

To start or operate (an engine, for example) by or as if by turning a handle.

Having different goals or motives.

To move or operate (a window, for example) by or as if by turning a handle.

One who does not behave like others.

To make into the shape of a crank; bend.

(slang) A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs.

To provide with a handle that is used in turning.

(geometry) A circle not having the same centre as another.

To turn a handle.

(engineering) A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.

To wind in a zigzagging course.

(physiology) An exercise that goes against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle.

Of, being, or produced by an eccentric person

Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.

Liable to capsize; unstable.

Not having the same center; - said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; - opposed to concentric.

(slang) Strange, weird, odd.

Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.

Sick; unwell.

Not coincident as to motive or end.

Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.

Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.

Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.

A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.

One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.

Clipping of crankshaft

In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.

The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.

A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.

(archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

A person with an unusual or odd personality

(informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.

A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;

Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;

A fit of temper or passion.

Not having a common center; not concentric;

A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.

A baseball fan.

(informal) An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories

Synonym of methamphetamine.

(rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

(obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.

(slang) The penis.

(transitive) To turn by means of a crank.

(intransitive) To turn a crank.

To turn.

(transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.

(intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.

(intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.

To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

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; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank.

Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.

A twist or turn in speech; a conceit consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.

A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim; crotchet; also, a fit of temper or passion.

A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.

A sick person; an invalid.

Sick; infirm.

Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.

Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.

To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.

A bad-tempered person

A whimsically eccentric person

Amphetamine used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

A hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle

Travel along a zigzag path;

Start by cranking;

Rotate with a crank

Fasten with a crank

Bend into the shape of a crank

(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail