crate /kɹeɪt/noun 3verb 2forms 3 noun3 •A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods. •(slang) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.I will make this box of electronics and computer chips fly like no other spaceship has ever flown. Mission Control wanted to see what this crate could do. — 2010 •In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.And Rust never compiles modules separately, even if they're in separate files: when you build a Rust crate, you're recompiling all of its modules. — 2017 verb2 •To put into a crate.He also testified that the reason he crated the one machine and boxed the other was because one machine was stronger and the other frailer, and that made it dangerous to crate it. — 1917 •To keep in a crate. formscrated · crating · crates
