Overview of noun cracking

The 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")


• fracture, crack, cracking -- (the act of cracking something)


• 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))

Overview of verb crack

The verb crack has 13 senses

• crack, check, break -- (become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated")


• crack -- (make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked")


• snap, crack -- (make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped")


• crack -- (hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler")


• break through, crack -- (pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county")


• crack -- (break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked")


• snap, crack -- (break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped")


• crack -- (gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe")


• crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse -- (suffer a nervous breakdown)


• crack -- (tell spontaneously; "crack a joke")


• crack -- (cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair")


• crack -- (reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking)


• crack -- (break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked")

Overview of adj cracking

The adj 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")