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A crate is a large strong container, often made of wood.

Crate or Crates may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Crate Entertainment, a US video game developer
• Cajón or crate, a percussion instrument in Peru
• "The Crate", a 1979 short story by Stephen King

People

• Crates (name), a given name and surname
• Crates (comic poet) (probably fl. late 450s or very early 440s BC), Old Comedy poet and actor from Athens
• Crates (engineer), 4th century BC engineer who accompanied Alexander the Great
• Chuck Crate (1916–1992), Canadian fascist and leader of the Canadian Union of Fascists

Places

• Crate Township, Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States

Technology

• Modular crate electronics
• Ilyushin Il-14 (NATO reporting name: Crate), a Soviet aircraft
• Crate engine, an automobile engine spec replacement shipped in a crate container. Crate Late Model and Crate Modified are classes named after the specification
• CrateIO, a fully searchable document oriented data store
• Packages in rust are called crates.

See also

• Crater (disambiguation)
• Krait, a venomous snake
• Dog crate
• Gestation crate, a metal enclosure used in intensive pig farming
• Wooden box