Crack
[kræk]
Definition
(noun.) a usually brief attempt; 'he took a crack at it'; 'I gave it a whirl'.
(noun.) a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive.
(noun.) a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; 'there was a crack in the mirror'.
(noun.) a sudden sharp noise; 'the crack of a whip'; 'he heard the cracking of the ice'; 'he can hear the snap of a twig'.
(noun.) a long narrow opening.
(verb.) break into simpler molecules by means of heat; 'The petroleum cracked'.
(verb.) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.
(verb.) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; 'The glass cracked when it was heated'.
(verb.) cause to become cracked; 'heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair'.
(verb.) break partially but keep its integrity; 'The glass cracked'.
(verb.) tell spontaneously; 'crack a joke'.
(verb.) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; 'The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler'.
(verb.) make a very sharp explosive sound; 'His gun cracked'.
(verb.) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; 'she cracked my password'; 'crack a safe'.
Typist: Vern--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
(v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
(v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
(v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
(v. t.) To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
(v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
(v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
(v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
(v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
(n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
(n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
(n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
(n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
(n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
(n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.
(n.) A boast; boasting.
(n.) Breach of chastity.
(n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
(n.) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
(n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.
(a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.
Checker: Patrice
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Break, cleft, breach, chink, fissure, crevice, cranny, opening.[2]. Report, clap, pop, burst, explosion.[3]. Snap (of a whip).
v. a. [1]. Break (partially), CRAZE.[2]. Split, chop, cleave, rend asunder.[3]. Snap (as a whip).
v. n. [1]. Break, split, burst, chap, open in chinks.[2]. Brag, bluster, vapor, vaunt, boast, gasconade, crow, exalt one's self, magnify one's self, TALK BIG.
a. [Colloquial.] Excellent, first-rate, of the first class, first-class.
Checker: Williams
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Split, break, splinter, chip, snap
ANT:Mend, repair, unite, piece, splice
Typed by Kate
Definition
n. (Scot.) a moment an instant.
v.i. to utter a sharp sudden sound: to split: to boast: to chat.—v.t. to produce a sudden noise: to break into chinks: to split: to break partially or wholly: to open (a bottle).—n. a sudden sharp splitting sound: a chink: a flaw: a blow a smack: friendly chat: (slang) housebreaking: a craze: one who has a craze: a pert boy.—adj. (coll.) excellent.—n. Crack′-brain a crazy person.—adjs. Crack′-brained; Cracked rent: damaged: crazy.—ns. Crack′er one who or that which cracks: a boaster a lie: the pin-tail duck: (U.S.) a thin crisp biscuit: a bonbon or a small firework exploding when pulled asunder: (U.S.) a poor white; Crack′-halt′er Crack′-hemp (Shak.) Crack′-rope one likely to be hanged.—adj. Crack′-jaw of a word hard to pronounce.—ns. Cracks′man a burglar; Crack′-tryst one who breaks an engagement.—Crack credit to destroy one's credit; Crack tryst to break an engagement; Crack up to praise.
Typist: Shelley
Examples
- I'll crack _my_ whip about their ear'n, afore they bring it to that, though, said Hiram, while Mr. Solomon, shaking his bridle, moved onward. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When this crack closes no smoke can reach them, and if we hasten to extinguish the flames I believe they will be safe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I didn't think there was a soul in England who didn't know Godfrey Staunton, the crack three-quarter, Cambridge, Blackheath, and five Internationals. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I'll crack ye over, if ye don't mind! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Maurice, leaning forward with a sigh, took a handful of nuts, which he proceeded to crack in a listless fashion. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The remaining crack was not over an inch in width a moment later. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Of all the imperfections (not considering glaring cracks or nicks), carbon spots are the most discernible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We have never seen ice better preserved through a long and hot summer than in a board shanty with only one thickness of siding, and that full of cracks and crevices. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- If we take a hot dish and put ice cream in it, it cracks because the dish when hot has expanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If a gentle breeze is blowing, a barely perceptible opening of a window will give the needed amount, even if there are no additional drafts of fresh air into the room through cracks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Lor, what cracks that off hoss has in his heels! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The unsightly cracks and humps in cement floors are sometimes due to the expansion resulting from heat (Fig. 5). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Of all these things I could have told the peculiarities, numbered the flaws or cracks, like any _clairvoyante_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The only person in my neighbourhood, whose face I had ever seen before, was an old, cracked sort of a general, his name I have forgotten. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I suppose, however, he had this move in his mind—he was always half-cracked—and then considered her provided for. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They had always cracked in other wars. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The more cracked it was, the more Mrs General varnished it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Spects they's gwine to trade ye off with a lot o' cracked tea-pots and sich like! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- On hearing that I had been once more discovered I started so that the railing against which I leaned cracked again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Then the bridge blew and one horse snapped his halter when he rose and jerked his head at the cracking roar and he went off through the trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemianism. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In a day or two this becomes a deeper brown, and more or less disorganized, cracking, either round the edge, or right across the center, so that it can be readily peeled away. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- With that second shot came the cracking boom of grenades from around the corner below the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had rushed down the stairs and flung across the street in a minute--the yellow postilion was cracking his whip gently. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The boom was a sharp crack that widened in the cracking and on the hillside he saw a small fountain of earth rise with a plume of gray smoke. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Edited by Leah