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CrackCrack Crack (kr[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cracked
(kr[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cracking.] [OE. cracken,
craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to
crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to
rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake,
Cracknel, Creak.]
1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of
the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow;
hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
O, madam, my old heart is cracked. --Shak.
He thought none poets till their brains were
cracked. --Roscommon.
3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to
crack a whip.
4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
--B. Jonson.
5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low]
To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its
contents.
To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang]
To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more
steam. [Colloq.] Crack
Crack Crack, v. i.
1. To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without
quite separating into parts.
By misfortune it cracked in the coling. --Boyle.
The mirror cracked from side to side. --Tennyson.
2. To be ruined or impaired; to fail. [Collog.]
The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little
comes in and much goes out. --Dryden.
3. To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. --Shak.
4. To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with
of. [Archaic.]
Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. --Shak.
Crack
Crack Crack, a.
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
[Colloq.]
One of our crack speakers in the Commons. --Dickens.
Meaning of Cracks from wikipedia
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- Look up
cracking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Cracking may
refer to:
Cracking, the
formation of a
fracture or
partial fracture in a
solid material...
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Crack cocaine,
commonly known simply as
crack, and also
known as rock, is a free base form of the
stimulant cocaine that can be smoked.
Crack offers a...
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Echelon cracks are a
related series of
cracks in a
planar structure and are a
response to
shearing forces in the
plane of the surface. Such
cracks are typically...
- of
crack growth ****ociated with
short cracks or
after the
application of an underload. If the
loads are
above a
certain threshold,
microscopic cracks will...
- Time
Cracks is an
Australian animated television series created by
David Gurney and
produced by the
Tasmanian animation studio Blue Rocket. The series...
- of the
propagation of
cracks in materials. It uses
methods of
analytical solid mechanics to
calculate the
driving force on a
crack and
those of experimental...
- the fine
pattern of
dense cracking formed on the
surface of
paintings Patterns in nature#
Cracks, the
patterns formed by
cracks of
different types in nature...
- A
little girl is
laying in bed,
looking at the
cracks in her wall
while it
rains outside. The
cracks come to life as a camel, a monkey, and a hen, who...
