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Adjective cracking has 1 sense
- bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing - very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
Antonym: bad (indirect, via good)
Noun cracking has 3 senses
- crack, cracking, snap - a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig"
--1 is a kind of noise
- fracture, crack, cracking - the act of cracking something
--2 is a kind of breakage, break, breaking
- cracking - the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process)
--3 is a kind of chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
--3 has particulars: hydrocracking
Verb crack has 12 senses
- crack, check, break - become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"
--1 is one way to change
Sample sentences:
The glass tubes crack
These glasses crack easily
- crack - make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked"
--2 is one way to sound, go
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- snap, crack - make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped"
--3 is one way to sound, go
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- crack - hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler"
--4 is one way to hit
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to crack his opponent
- break through, crack - pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county"
--5 is one way to pass, go through, go across
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- crack - break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked"
--6 is one way to crack, check, break
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- snap, crack - break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The rope snapped"
--7 is one way to break, separate, split up, fall apart, come apart
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- crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse - suffer a nervous breakdown
--8 is one way to suffer, sustain, have, get
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- crack - tell spontaneously; "crack a joke"
--9 is one way to tell, narrate, recount, recite
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- crack - cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
--10 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
They crack the glass tubes
- crack - reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking
--11 is one way to decompose, break up, break down
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- crack - break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"
--12 is one way to change
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