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Definition: Crack |
CrackAdjective1. (informal) of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops". Noun1. A long narrow opening. 2. A narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack". 3. A long narrow depression in a surface. 4. A sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice". 5. (informal) a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion". 6. Witty remark. 7. A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something. 8. A purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted. 9. A usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl". 10. : the act of cracking something. Verb1. Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated". 2. Make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked". 3. As of tightly stretched ropes or fingers. 4. Hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise: "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler". 5. Pass through, as through a barrier; "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county". 6. Break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked". 7. Break suddenly and abruptly; as of something under tension; "The rope snapped". 8. Suffer a nervous breakdown. 9. Cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair". 10. : reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking. 11. : break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Computing | Crack [warez d00dz] 1. v. To break into a system (compare cracker). 2. v. Action of removing the copy protection from a commercial program. People who write cracks consider themselves challenged by the copy protection measures. They will often do it as much to show that they are smarter than the developer who designed the copy protection scheme than to actually copy the program. 3. n. A program, instructions or patch used to remove the copy protection of a program or to uncripple features from a demo/time limited program. 4. An exploit. Source: Jargon File. |
Hydrologic | A separation formed in an ice cover of floe that does not divide it into two or more pieces. (references) |
Industry | A narrow streak, running parallel with the warp or weft threads, characterized mainly by the existence of marked space between two adjacent threads. Such streaks may be caused by mechanical defects on the loom, such as a loose crank-arm or crank-shaft bearing, banging-off, a bent reed wire, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Crack as a crack man, a first-rate fellow; a crack hand at cards, a first-rate player; a crack article, an excellent one, i.e. an article cracked up or boasted about. This is the Latin crepo, to crack or boast about. Hence Lucretius ii. 1168,"crepas antiquum genus." "Indeed, la! `tis a noble child; a crack, madam." Shakespeare: Coriolanus, i.3. A gude crack. A good talker. "To be a gude crack ... was essential to the trade of a `puir body' of the more esteemed class." - Sir W. Scott: The Autiquary (Introduction). In a crack. Instantly. In a snap of the fingers, crepitu digitorum (in a crack of the fingers). (French, craquer.) "Une allusion au bruit de l'ongle contre la dent que les Orieutaux du moyen âme touchaient du doight quand ils voulaient affirmer solennellement une chose." Hence - Sire, bien vous croi seur les Dieux; Mais asses vous querroie mieux Se vous l'ongle hurties an dent." Theatre Francois de Moyen Age, p. 167. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | A crack formed as a result of thermal stresses produced by rapid cooling from a high temperature. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A split or failure in the parallel or radiused portion of a drawn cup. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Meteorology & Standards | Concrete has a low tensile strength; hence it cracks rather easily. Source: European Union. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (basuco, llello). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | CRACK. A whore. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Transportation | Fissure that appears on the surface of a piece when it is going to break. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Cocaine is a relatively potent stimulant, of natural origin. It is extracted from the leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylon coca), which is indigenous to the Andean highlands of South America. Its chemical name is [1R-(exo,exo)]-3-(Benzoyloxy)-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane-2-carboxylic acid methyl ester, and its chemical sum formula is C17H21NO4.
Side Effects and Health Issues
Cocaine is not recommended in conjunction with alcohol. Cocaine consumption causes high blood-pressure and increases the heart rate. There is risk associated with cocaine use, regardless of whether the drug is ingested by snorting, injecting, or smoking. Potential side effects of cocaine usage are aggression, depression, and paranoia. Cocaine is considered to be to almost as addictive as nicotine [1]. Typically the high is the best from the start. After a while it dies down and the stomach begins to ache. In order for users to feel comfortable they tend to wait about 30 minutes between tokes.
Excessive doses of cocaine may lead to seizures and death from respiratory failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, or heart-failure. There is no antidote for cocaine overdose.
Cocaine use is associated with a lifetime risk of heart attack that is 7 times that of non-users. During the hour after cocaine is used, heart attack risk rises 24 times. It accounts for 25% of the heart attacks in the 18 to 45 year old age group.
Evidence suggests that users who smoke or inject cocaine may be at even greater risk than those who snort it. Cocaine smokers suffer from acute respiratory problems including coughing, shortness of breath, and severe chest pains with lung trauma and bleeding. The injection cocaine user is at high risk for transmitting or acquiring diseases if needles or other injection equipment are shared. In most cases, each purchase is about 2 grams for one day of smoking (after treated with ammonia). In addition, it appears that compulsive cocaine use may develop even more rapidly if the substance is smoked rather than snorted. This is because the high from snorting is much less prominent than from smoking. Furthermore, prolonged snorting of cocaine can degrade the cartilage separating the nostrils (the septum), leading eventually to its complete disappearance. The smoking of cocaine breaks down tooth enamel and creates tooth decay and loss.
The Isolation of Cocaine
Although the stimulant and hunger-depressant properties of coca had been known for many centuries, the isolation of the cocaine alkaloid was not achieved until summer of 1859. Although many scientists had attempted to isolate cocaine, no one had been successful because of two reasons. First, the knowledge of chemistry required was unknown at the time, and second, coca does not grow in Europe and is easily ruined during travel.In 1856 Friederich Wöhler asked Dr. Carl Scherzer, a scientist aboard the Novara, an Austrian frigate sent by Emperor franz Joseph to circle the globe, to bring him back a large ammount of coca leaves from South America. In 1859 the ship finished its travels and Wöhler received a trunk full of coca. Wöhler passed on the leaves to Albert Niemann, a PhD student at the University of Göttingen in Germany, who is the first known person to isolate cocaine. Niemann describes every step he took to isolate cocaine in a small work titled On a New Organic Base, which earned him his PhD and is now in the British Library. As with other alkaloids its name carried the "-ine" suffix.
The Popularization of Cocaine
In 1859 an Italian doctor by the name of Paolo Mantegazza returned from Peru, where he had witnessed first-hand the use of coca by the natives. He proceeded to experiment on himself and upon his return to Milan he wrote a paper in which he described the effects of coca on himself. In this paper he declared coca and cocaine (at the time they were assumed to be the same) as being useful, medicinally, in the treatment of 'a furred tongue in the morning, flatulence, [and] whitening of the teeth'.A chemist named Angelo Mariani who read Mantegazza's paper about coca became immediately intrigued with it, and its economic potential. In 1863 Angelo started marketing a wine called Vin Mariani which had been treated with coca leaves. The ethanol in the wine acted as a solvent and extracted the cocaine from the coca leaves, altering the drink's effect.
Cocaine was introduced into clinical use as a local anaesthetic in Germany in 1884. Although synthetic local anaesthetics are much more widely used today, cocaine is, to some degree, still in use in dentistry and ophthalmology. In 1879 it began to be used to treat morphine addiction. Already by late Victorian times it appeared as a 'vice' in literature, e.g. as the cucaine injected by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional Sherlock Holmes --- from which fact we may conclude that its use as a recreational drug began early.
Pharmacology
Illicit cocaine in its purest form is an off-white or pink chunky product. Adulterated coke is often a white or off-white powder. Cocaine appearing in powder is a salt, typically Cocaine Hydrochloride. Coke is frequently adulterated or "cut" with various powdery fillers to increase its volume. The substances most commonly used in this process are baking soda, sugars, such as lactose, inositol, and mannitol, and local anesthetics, such as lidocaine.
The major routes of administration of cocaine are snorting, injecting, and smoking (including freebase and crack cocaine):
"Crack" is the street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a ready-to-use free base for smoking. Rather than requiring the more volatile method of processing cocaine using ether, crack cocaine is processed with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and water and heated to remove the hydrochloride, thus producing a form of cocaine that can be smoked. What this does is that it removes the impurities from the cocaine and allows one to see how much pure cocaine is actually there. This is why people started mixing it with ammonia in the first place, to test the purity of their product. The term "crack" refers to the crackling sound heard when the mixture is heated.
- Snorting: inhaling cocaine powder through the nose where it is absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues - this method creates the slowest rate of absorption.
- Injecting: using a needle to release the drug directly into the bloodstream - this is the fastest absorption possible.
- Smoking: inhaling cocaine vapor or smoke into the lungs. When smoked, cocaine is sometimes combined with other drugs, such as cannabis; this combination is known as primo.
On the illicit market, crack, or "rock," is often sold in small, inexpensive dosage units frequently known as a "nickel" or "nickel rock" ($5.00), "dime" or "dime rock" ($10.00). Quantity provided by a "nickel" or "dime" rock will vary depending on geographic location, availability and/or numerous other factors.
Color will depend on several factors including origin of the Cocaine used, impurities, method of preparation (ammonia vs sodium bicarbonate), among others, but will generally range from a light off-white to pale brown.
Texture will also depend on factors affecting color, but will range from crumbly (usually the lighter variety) to hard, almost crystalline (usually the darker variety).
Smoking is most often accomplished using a "pipe" made from a small glass tube about one-quarter inch in diameter and up to several inches long. These are sometimes called "straight shooters" and are frequently readily available at discount stores or smoke shops for a dollar or two. They will sometimes contain a small paper flower and are promoted as a "rose".
A small piece of copper scouring pad (usually called "brillo", from the brand name Brillo scouring pad) is crumpled-up and stuffed into one end of the tube after having the copper plating burned off. This crumpled scouring pad acts as sort of a filter to prevent the "rock" from being sucked into the mouth when smoking, but allowing the smoke to pass.
The "rock" is placed at the outside end of the tube closest to the filter and the other end is placed in the mouth. A small flame from a match or cigarette lighter is held near the rock. As the rock heats, it melts, while the user inhales the gaseous smoke released during heating.
The effects are felt almost immediately after smoking, are very intense, and do not last long, usually 5 to 10 minutes. The user is typically left wanting more crack, thus creating the financial problems commonly attributed to crack users.
A heavily used crack "pipe" tends to break at the ends as the user "pushes" the pipe. "Pushing" is a technique used to partially recover crack which hardens on the inside wall of the pipe as the pipe cools. The user pushes the filter through the pipe from one end to the other to collect the build-up inside the pipe. The ends of the pipe is broken from the object used to push the filter, frequently a small screwdriver or stiff piece of wire. The user will usually attempt to remove the most jagged edges and continue using the pipe until it is too short to handle.
Tell-tale signs of a crack pipe are the short, glass pipe containing the burned filter, jagged edges and burn marks at one or both ends.
Use
Overall usage
The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) reported that, in 1999, cocaine was used by 3.7 million Americans, or 1.7 percent of the household population aged 12 and over. Estimates of the current number of those who use cocaine regularly (at least once per month) vary, but 1.5 million is a widely accepted figure within the research community.Although cocaine use has not significantly changed over the last six years, the number of first-time users has increased 63 percent, from 574,000 in 1991, to 934,000 in 1998. While these numbers indicate that cocaine is still widely present in the United States, cocaine use is significantly less prevalent than it was during the early 1980s. Cocaine use peaked in 1982 when 10.4 million Americans (5.6 percent of the population) reportedly used cocaine.
Use among youth
The 1999 Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey found the proportion of students reporting use of powder cocaine rose during the 1990s. In 1991, 2.3 percent of eighth-graders said they used cocaine in their lifetime. This figure rose to 4.7 percent in 1999. For the older grades, increases began in 1992 and continued through the beginning of 1999. Between those years, lifetime use of cocaine went from 3.3 percent to 7.7 percent among tenth-graders and from 6.1 percent to 9.8 percent among twelfth-graders. Lifetime use of crack cocaine, according to MTF, also increased among eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders, from an average of 2.0 percent in 1991 to 3.9 percent in 1999.Perceived risk and disapproval of cocaine and crack use both decreased during the 1990s at all three grade levels. The 1999 NHSDA found the highest rate of monthly cocaine use was for those aged 18 to 25 at 1.7 percent, increasing from 1.2 percent in 1997. Rates declined between 1996 and 1998 for ages 26 to 34, while rates slightly increased for the 12 to 17 and 35 and older age groups. Studies also show people are experimenting with cocaine at younger and younger ages. NHSDA found a steady decline in the mean age of first use from 23.6 years in 1992 to 20.6 years in 1998.
Availability
Cocaine is readily available in all major U.S. metropolitan areas. According to the Summer 1998 Pulse Check, which is published by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, cocaine use has stabilized across the country, with a few increases reported in San Diego, Bridgeport, Miami, and Boston. In the West, cocaine use is down perhaps because some users are switching to methamphetamine, which is cheaper and provides a longer-lasting high.
Sources
In 1999, Colombia remains the world's leading producer of cocaine. Three-quarters of the world's annual yield of cocaine is produced there, both from cocaine base imported from Peru and Bolivia and from locally grown coca. There was a 28 percent increase in the amount of potentially harvestable coca plants in Colombia in 1998. This, combined with crop reductions in Bolivia and Peru, made Colombia the nation with the largest number of acres of coca under cultivation. Notable names in cocaine smuggling are Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, George Jung and the Ochoa Brothers, as well as the Medellin Cartel, and Cali Cartel.
Distribution
Cocaine shipments from South America transported through Mexico or Central America are generally moved over land or by air to staging sites in northern Mexico. The cocaine is then broken down into smaller loads for smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. The primary cocaine importation points in the United States are in Arizona, southern California, southern Florida, and Texas. Typically, land vehicles are driven across the Southwest Border.Cocaine is also carried in small, concealed, kilogram quantities across the border by couriers known as "mules," who enter the United States either legally through ports of entry or illegally through undesignated points along the border. Colombian traffickers have also started using a new concealment method whereby they add chemical compounds to cocaine hydrochloride to produce "black cocaine." The cocaine in this substance is not detected by standard chemical tests or drug-sniffing canines.
Cocaine traffickers from Colombia have also established a labyrinth of smuggling routes throughout the Caribbean, the Bahama Island chain, and South Florida. They often hire traffickers from Mexico or the Dominican Republic to transport the drug. The traffickers use a variety of smuggling techniques to transfer their drug to U.S. markets. These include airdrops of 500-700 kilograms in the Bahama Islands or off the coast of Puerto Rico, mid-ocean boat-to-boat transfers of 500-2,000 kilograms, and the commercial shipment of multi-tons of cocaine through the port of Miami.
Bulk cargo ships are also used to smuggle cocaine to staging sites in the western Caribbean-Gulf of Mexico area. These vessels are typically 150 to 250-foot coastal freighters that carry an average cocaine load of approximately 2.5 metric tons. Commercial fishing vessels are also used for smuggling operations. In areas with a high volume of recreational traffic, smugglers use the same types of vessels, such as go-fast boats, as those used by the local population.
People noted for cocaine use
- Sigmund Freud
- Carl Coller
- Sherlock Holmes
- Robert Louis Stevenson Unconfirmed, but suspected from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Diego Maradona
- John Holmes
- David Crosby
- Marilyn Manson
- Liam Gallagher
- George W. Bush Cited in Fortunate Son and elsewhere, never denied
- Shaun Ryder
- Chester Bennington, lead singer for the band Linkin Park
See further
- Coca eradication
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See
- Freebase cocaine
- Cracker
- Software cracking
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In general, a cracker in the context of computing is a person who compromises a computer security system without permission of the person operating the system. This can be a person that removes the copy protection code from software (see also software cracking), or a person who uses his or her computing skills to compromise or destroy corporate or private computer files over a network. Crackers' techniques can vary from using advanced programming skills and social engineering to utilizing software developed by others without understanding how the cracking software works. The latter is often referred to as a script kiddie. The term "cracker" seems to have developed in emulation of hacker with an additional connotation of forcible as opposed to clever. They are sometimes described as "black-hat hackers". An alternative term for this meaning is attacker.See the Jargon File for a view of the history of hacker and hacking.
See also cracking, software cracking, Hacker (Computer Criminal), phreaking.
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Software cracking is software hacking in order to remove encoded copy protection. Distribution of cracked software (warez) is generally an illegal (or more recently, criminal) act of copyright infringement.Software cracking is most often done by software reverse engineering.
The passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act made software cracking, as well as the distribution of information which enables software cracking, illegal in the United States.
A good example would be a "No CD" crack, which edits the program so that the CD is no longer needed to execute the program. Another example occurs when businesses break the copy protection of programs that they have legally purchased but that are keyed to particular hardware, so that there is no chance of downtime due to hardware failure.
Some groups devoted to developing tools for software cracks and the distribution of warez include the Phrozen Crew, UCF, Xpression, and DrinkOrDie.
History of Cracking
Cracking has been around as long as there has been software to crack, but software cracking started to evolve into a whole underground scene in the early 80s, on the Apple II and Commodore 64 computers.
People responsible for cracking started to group themselves up into teams, known as "cracking crews" (commonly referred to simply as "groups"). Cracking crews would be made up of suppliers (the people who would get hold of new software, often before its commercial release, if a beta tester were to be located as a supplier); Coders (programmers who would defeat the copy protection); Traders (people who would then distribute the cracks around the world as fast as possible, either by mail or by uploading the software to as many BBSs as possible); and Sysops (people who would run BBSs to help distribute the software).
Programmers started adding "Crack intros to the cracked software to show which cracking crew was responsible. Crews would compete with each other to get new software distributed faster than their rivals, and to be the ones that provided the most reliable cracks.
As these crack intros became more complex, with better graphics and animation, people began to appreciate them in their own right, and groups produced intros without having an associated crack. This was the beginning of the demo scene.
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Synonyms: CrackSynonyms: ace (adj), first-rate (adj), super (adj), tiptop (adj), topnotch (adj), tops(p) (adj), chap (n), chip (n), cleft (n), cracking (n), cranny (n), crevice (n), fissure (n), fling (n), fracture (n), gap (n), go (n), offer (n), pass (n), quip (n), sally (n), scissure (n), shot (n), whirl (n), wisecrack (n), break (v), break through (v), break up (v), check (v), collapse (v), crack up (v), crock up (v), snap (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Verb: boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush, bluff. |
Brittleness | Break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust. |
Deterioration | Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die. |
Discontinuity | Noun: discontinuity; disjunction; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap; (interval); solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation; (periodicity); dropping fire. |
Discovery | Solve, resolve, elucidate; unriddle, unravel, unlock, crack, crack open; pick up, open the lock; find a clue, find clew a to, find the key to the riddle; interpret; disclose. |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision. | |
Furrow | Noun: furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole. |
Inexpedience | Superexcellent; of the first water; first-rate, first-class; high-wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal; standard; (perfect); inimitable. |
Instantaneity | Moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath, crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time. |
Interval | Noun: interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha. |
Skill | Adjective: skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain; slick, smart; (active); proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant; (knowing). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Crack a window, will ya (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin) No crack. Two packs of cigarettes say they don't get out of the forest (Stalag 17; writing credit: Donald Bevan; Edmund Trzcinski) The spell you broke on your head falls, you shall crack nuts, prince of the dolls (The Nutcracker Prince; writing credit: E.T.A. Hoffmann; Patricia Watson) We'll crack it open later when we're desperate (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
Lyrics | And even as a crack fiend mama, (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel) Everybody's got a stack and it ain't no crack (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio) I'm ASAP, I'm crack a don chicken hunting at KFC (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) Step on a crack (Whip It; performing artist: Devo) | |
Clever | Necrophillia: That Uncontrollable Urge To Crack Open A Cold One. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Diamond Crack Diamond (1970) Top Crack (1966) Crack in the World (1965) El Hijo del crack (1953) General Crack (1930) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hikers walking in large crack in the earth. Credit: Rbt.. |  | "Crack in the Ground", Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
 | CRACK : It doesn't discriminate. / Jason Leong. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | CRACK : SHATTERS LIVES. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The sharp crack of the two revolvers rang out as one sound. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rube Goldberg views the news for his latest invention. How to crack a walnut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Always the endman on crack the whip!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | S.S. M.W. [i.e. Howard M.] Hanna, looking down hatch, showing crack in hull after storm. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A "crack trotter" in the harness of the period / Thos. Worth. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The great racing crack Hindoo, by Virgil dam Florence, by Lexington. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cracked wall" by Marty Weis Commentary: "A crack in a cinderblock wall." | "White eye, Water and Stone 3" by K.C. Hohensee Commentary: "Stone with a crack, a white eye with too much flash, and the beautiful reflection of masts in the rippling water." |
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 | Crack of a leather whip against the floor. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon | Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. |
Joseph Hall | A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A bend in a floor of that kind is a crack, is a crumbling |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | There was an instant of dead silence and then the loud crack of a pandybat on the last desk |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He too is helping to crack it. |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Fear! The crack that might flood your brain with light |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Because crack is smoked, the user experiences a high in less than 10 seconds. (references) | |
The use of illicit drugs, such as cocaine and crack cocaine, can cause stroke. (references) | ||
Smoking crack cocaine can produce a particularly aggressive paranoid behavior in users. (references) | ||
Business | Companies, wishing to crack high end market, should be ready to consider possibility to offer some specific products to their customers. (references) | |
For foreign vendors, the best chance to crack the Korean market probably would be through a strategic alliance with a partner who has an established distribution network. (references) | ||
The Ministry of the Interior has been very active in the development of the so-called "Pacchetto Sicurezza 2000" (security package), which outlines a series of coercive measures to crack down on crime. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | Drug use, particularly glue sniffing and crack, is increasingly prevalent among street children. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | In July the Government began to crack down on the distribution and sale of the opposition party's VCD's and audiocassettes. (references) |
China | Authorities in some areas continued a concerted effort to crack down on the activities of unapproved Catholic and Protestant churches. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | Nonetheless, there are signs that this potential $12.7 billion market in Japan is beginning to crack open. (references) |
Taiwan | Taiwan has not yet passed its planned Optical Media Law which would enhance its ability to crack down on the pirating of optical media products. (references) | |
Costa Rica | Taxi drivers periodically hold demonstrations to protest government inaction against unlicensed "pirate" taxis, and "pirate" taxi drivers respond in kind when the authorities do try to crack down. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belarus | There has been no satisfactory resolution of the September 1999 disappearance of 13th Supreme Soviet Deputy Chairman Viktor Gonchar and his local business associate Anatoliy Krasovsky, which occurred after Lukashenka, in a meeting broadcast on state television, ordered the chiefs of his security services to crack down on "opposition scum." Gonchar was a high profile antiregime politician and Krasovsky was considered an active fundraiser for the opposition. (references) |
Minorities | Russia | On November 5, the President also ordered Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov to crack down on interethnic violence, and police made arrests in several outstanding cases. (references) |
Germany | In addition a number of state and local governments continued programs to crack down on rightwing extremist activities and to engage young persons considered most "at risk" for rightwing behavior. (references) | |
Political Economy | PAKISTAN | Police do not hesitate to crack down on worker demonstrations. (references) |
HONG KONG | The United States has encouraged the government at senior levels to crack down on this retail trade, and on the distributors and manufacturers behind them. (references) | |
TAIWAN | In face of the U.S. concerns on IPR protection, Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has cooperated with police authorities since 2000 to implement an island-wide "K-plan" to crack down on counterfeit goods. (references) | |
Women | China | Thus far actions to crack down on this lucrative business, which involves organized crime groups and businesspersons as well as the police and the military, largely have been ineffective. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kuwait | Government efforts to crack down on visa trading; such as by closing front companies for visa traders, have not made significant progress. (references) |
China | Despite Government efforts to crack down on trafficking in women and children, the present demand far outstrips the available supply, making trafficking a profitable enterprise for those willing to risk arrest and prosecution. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Julia Child | Good. And I think, too, it's wonderful they know exactly how to crack that crab so that you can eat it easily, don't they. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Already our efforts to crack down on career criminals, organized crime, drug-pushers, and to enforce tougher sentences and paroles are having effect. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I propose to hire more federal and local gun prosecutors and more ATF agents to crack down on illegal gun traffickers and bad-apple dealers. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Crack" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.45% of the time. "Crack" is used about 1,548 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.45% | 1,029 | 7,214 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 26.52% | 411 | 13,718 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.32% | 98 | 33,072 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.39% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.26% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,548 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crack": a crack in the ceiling ♦ a hard nut to crack ♦ at the crack of dawn ♦ at the crack of down ♦ basal crack ♦ contraction crack ♦ corner crack ♦ crack a bottle ♦ crack a code ♦ crack a joke ♦ crack a nut ♦ crack a whip ♦ Crack Cocaine ♦ crack down ♦ crack fingers ♦ crack from dryness ♦ crack gallery ♦ crack house ♦ crack jokes ♦ crack of doom ♦ crack on the head ♦ crack one's fingers ♦ crack one's head open ♦ crack open ♦ crack open a bottle ♦ crack root ♦ crack shot ♦ crack smb. on the head ♦ crack smth. open ♦ crack the bell ♦ crack troops ♦ crack up ♦ crack willow ♦ crack with teeth ♦ desiccation crack ♦ employ a steam engine to crack a nut ♦ fatigue crack ♦ flacky crack ♦ Griffith crack ♦ hair internal crack ♦ hair line crack ♦ hairline crack ♦ hard nut to crack ♦ have a crack at smth. ♦ in a crack ♦ mould crack ♦ mud crack ♦ nut to crack ♦ penny shaped crack ♦ plaster over a crack ♦ quarter crack ♦ sand crack ♦ shatter crack ♦ shrinkage crack ♦ skin crack ♦ star crack ♦ sun crack ♦ surface crack ♦ tensile crack ♦ the crack of doom ♦ To crack a bottle ♦ To crack a crib ♦ To crack on ♦ toe crack ♦ tough nut to crack. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crack": crack-a-jack, crack-at, crack-boom, Crack-brained, crack-cocaine, crack-crazed, crack-down, crack-free, crack-fzzz-tchktchk, crack-fzzzz, crack-head, crack-heads, crack-jaw, Crack-loo, crack-of-dawn, crack-peddling, crack-pot, crack-proof, crack-resistant, crack-selling, crack-stopper, crack-stoppers, crack-stopping, crack-thud, crack-up, crack-ups, crack-war. | |
Ending with "crack": anti-crack, finger-crack, frost-crack, non-crack, sand-crack, whip-crack, winter-crack. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bars (burst, flaw, split). (various references) | |
Albanian | përpjekje (attempt, drive, effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, offer, patience, prolusion, pull, push, skirmish, stroke, try, venture, whack), deshifroj (decipher, decode), hajdut (burglar, crook, Cutpurse, pilferer, robber, stealer, thief, yegg), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), kërcas (clash, click, crackle, creak, crepitate, crunch, Gride, grit one's teeth, jar, scratch, scroop, snap, squeak), kërcitje (clack, clash, click, clicking, crackle, crackling, crash, creak, crepitation, crunch, Gride, grinding, groan, pop, pound, rap, rattle, scratch, screech, snap, splutter, squeak), kris (crash, rattle), çast (eyewink, flash, hour, instant, jiff, jiffy, minute, moment, point, tick, trice), ngjirem, zbërthej (analyse, analyze, break down, decompose, demount, diffract, disarticulate, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, dismount, disperse, dissolve, Plumb, pull apart, puzzle out, resolve, take to pieces, unbuckle, unbutton, undo, unfasten, unlock, unnail), plas (break out, fling, howl, plunk, pop, rip), plasë (chink, cranny, crevice, fissure, leak, rent, rift), plasarit, plasaritem (chap, flaw, seam), plasaritje (chap, cleft, cracking, flaw), shaka (badinage, facetiae, gag, hoax, jape, jest, jocosity, jocularity, joke, lark, persiflage, play, pleasantry, prank, quiz, spoof, trick, waggery), krismë (bang, clash, crash, rattle, scratch, smash, snap). (various references) | |
Arabic | إنفجر (blaze, blow out, blow up, break, burst, erupt, rupture, spew forth, split), بحة الصوت, طلقة (bullet, fire, shot), طقطق (click, crackle, patter, pitter patter, sputter, squeak), طرى (applaud, approve, baste, commend, compliment, dress, flatter, flattering, puff, refresh, salute, soften, supple, tender), ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, craze, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), ضربة قوية (bounce, chop, knocking, slog, slug, thump), سحق (bash, batter, beat, beating, bow, break, crumple, crunch, crush, flatten, grind, jam, levigate, mow, overwhelm, pound, pounding, powder, pulverization, pulverize, put down, quash, reduce, run over smth., scotch, slam, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, steam roller, suppress, sweep, trample, tread, triturate, trituration), صدع (breach, chasm, check, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fault, fissure, flaw, rent, rift, split), تصدع (chap, rend, split), إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, perish, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), إنصدع (rift), إنشق (break up, cleave, fissure, gap, rip, rive, splinter, split), أصبح أجش, ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twaddle, twitter, yap), شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist), شخص غريب الأطوار (codger, curious, eccentric, erratic, quiz), صفع (clap, plug, slap, smack, thwack), نكتة (anecdote, gag, hoax, jest, joke, pleasantries, rib, witticism), فتحة ضيقة, فتح ليشرب, فتح ليدرس, فجوة (aperture, breach, break, cavity, chamber, chasm, crevasse, crevice, discontinuity, fissure, gap, hiatus, hole, lacuna, opening), فرقعة (bang, crackle, crackling, crepitation, exploding, explosion, pop, report, snap), فرقع (crackle, crepitate, explode, pop, pop up, snap, sputter, squib, torpedo), سطا على, مدح (commend, commendation, compliment, eulogize, praise), فلع (chink, cleave, cleft, crevice, split), لغو (chat, chatter, chitchat, logorrhea, loquacity, moonshine, palaver, slipslop, small talk, tittle tattle, twitter), لغا (chatter, twitter, yap), حل رموز, حل (acquit, become, clear up, detach, disband, disengage, disentangle, disintegrate, dismissal, dispensation, dissolve, exonerate, fix, free, hash, loose, ravel out, releasing, resolution, resolve, settle, settlement, settling, solution, solve, solvent, unbend, unclasp, uncoil, undo, undoing, unfasten, unfastening, unhook, untangle, untie, untwine, untying, unwind), حزن (afflict, aggrieve, anger, bale, be sorrowful, be sorry, cloud, darken, depress, depression, distress, doldrums, gloom, grief, grieve, gripe, heartache, melancholy, pain, sadden, sadness, sadness pain, sorrow), حطم (break, break up, dash, disintegrate, extinguish, shatter, shipwreck, shiver, sink, smash, undo, wrack, wreak, wreck), تكسر (break, fragmentation, fritter, shatter, splinter), فرجة (crevice, fissure, gap, interstice). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неочакван силен удар, дрезгавина (twilight), изпуквам (pop), плясвам (flap, plop, slap, spank, whack), плясък (clap, flap, plash, splash, stroke), плющене (flap, flapping, flip, flip flap, flipping, pelting, smack), плющя (flap, flog, slash, smack, snap, swish, whip), подсичам се (get sore), попуквам, прасвам (cosh, snap), пролука (aperture, chink, cranny, flaw, gap, leak, rent, slot), пуквам (break, crackle, explode, flaw, kick in, peg out, pop, pop off, snuff out, spring), пукване (break, burst), първокласен играч, дешифрирам (decipher, decode), крекирам, слабост (asthenia, debility, demerit, failing, fancy, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, inanition, infirmity, insufficiency, leanness, partiality, poorness, shortcoming, tenderness, tenuity, weakness), спукване (cracking, deflation, phut, rupture), спуквам (burst, rupture), разстройвам (break, defeat, derange, detune, disagree, disconcert, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, distract, disturb, impair, put about, rupture, stultify, unnerve, unstring, unvoice, upset), щракване (snap), елитен (picked), цепнатина (chink, cleavage, cleft, cracking, fissure, flaw, leak, rent, rift, shake, slash, slit, slot), мутирам (change, sport), кражба с взлом (burglary), гръм (bark, bolt, boom, clap, peal, reverberation, shaft, thunder, thunder peal, thunderbolt, thunderclap), остроумна забележка (quip, rapier thrust, wisecrack, witticism), отличен (alpha plus, banner, excellent, fine, grand, groovy, immense, master stroke, masterly, mean, nailing, peachy, pre eminent, prime, prize, roaring, slick, spanking, splendid, superb, unexceptionable, whizbang, wicked, wizard), опит (attempt, essay, experience, experiment, go, go off, shot, shy, stab, tentative, trial, try, whack, whirl), секване, щракам (twinge). (various references) | |
Chinese | 隙 (occasion for dislike), 郤 (occasion for dislike), 裂缝 (Cleft, slit), 裂縫 (crevice), 裂 (split), 豁 (clear, exempt, liberal-minded, open, opening, play Chinese finger game, sacrifice, slit, stake all), 烈 (ardent, intense, rend, split), 精干 (highly capable, special), 罅 (grudge), 縫 (seam, to sew, to stitch), 爆裂 (burst), 崩裂 (burst apart). (various references) | |
Czech | crack, prvotřídní (big time, champion, chance, choice, first class, first rate, high-class, preeminent, star, sterling, tiptop, topflight, topnotch), elitní, louskat (crackle, shell), naštípnout, narazit (broach, bump, stave in), natlouct, prásknutí, prasklina (burst, cranny, split), štìrbina (chink, cleft, crevice, fissure, leak, slit, slot), praskot (cracking, crackle, crackling, crash), vyřešit (figure out, puzzle out, resolve, settle, solve, straighten, unscramble), puknout (rift, snap, split), rozbít (break, break up, bust, dash, destroy, pitch, shatter, smash, sunder, wreck), rozlousknout, rozluštit (decipher, find out, puzzle out, solve, undo, unravel, unriddle), třesknout (clash, pop), třesknutí, trhlina (breach, chink, cleft, crevasse, crevice, gap, gash, Lacuna, rent, rift, rip, rupture, snag, split, tear), udìlat prasklinu, prasknout (burst, crash, go, go phut). (various references) | |
Danish | spalte (crevice, split). (various references) | |
Dutch | barst (burst, crevice, flaw), spleet (crevice), scheur (burst, tear). (various references) | |
Esperanto | krevo (burst), krevaĵo (burst, flaw), krako, kraki, fendo (crevice), fendaĵo (crevice). (various references) | |
Faeroese | bresta (burst, explode), braka (creak, gnash, grate, grind). (various references) | |
Farsi | کاف , تق کردن , تولیدصدای ناگهانی وبلندکردن , ترکیدن (Blow, Blowout, Burst, Dehisce, Explode, Pop, Reave, Rive, Rupture), ترکانیدن (Detonate), ترک (Abandonment, Chap, Clef, Craze, Fracture, Interstice, Proscription, Quit, Renunciation, Turkish), ترق تروق , ضربت (Bat, Bob, Buff, Buffet, Bump, Contusion, Coup, Hack, Hew, Impact, Jar, Jolt, Jow, Knock, Percussion, Plunk, Pounce, Pound, Slap, Stroke, Swat, Thump, Thwack, Whack, Yerk), رخنه (Breach, Chink, Gap, Influx, Leak), شکاف برداشتن (Yerk), شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture). (various references) | |
Finnish | särö (fissure, flaw), rako (chink, cleft, slit, slot), halkeama (chink, cleft, crevasse, crevice, fissure, split). (various references) | |
French | fissure (cranny, crevice), craquer (crackle, creak), craquement (creak), fente (cranny, crevice), fêlure (small crack), crevasse (crevasse, crevice). (various references) | |
Frisian | barst (burst). (various references) | |
German | spalte (break, chasm, chink, cleavage, cleft, col, column, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, fudge, gap, hole, pillar, rift), riss (break, chap, cleft, crevice, fissure, gap, interstice, laceration, rift, rip, ripped, sketch, sketch plan, split, tear), sprung (bound, branch, break, dive, fissure, hop, interstice, jump, leap, plunge, pounce, skip, spring, stone's throw, transfer, vault), spalt (chink, clefts, crevice, fissure, gap, opening, rift, split), Riß (design, diagram, fissure, jag, plan, plane, rift, rip, ripped, tore), krachen (bang, break, crash, creak, crunch, ring out, rip, smash, split, thump), knick (buckling, crease, Crinkle, dog-ear, kink, veer), knallen (bang, belt, blaze, click, explode, fire, flop, misfire, misfiring, pop, ring out, slam, slap, slug, to bang), knall (bang, explosion, pop, slam, snap, trouble), knacken (break into, burgle, click, crackle, creak, crush, knock out, pop, rumble, rumbling, snap, to crack, work out), brechen (be sick, betray, break, bring up, crack up, cut, fracture, heave up, infringe, overcome, pluck, quarry, reflect, refract, rive, rupture, spew, throw up, to crack, violate, vomit). (various references) | |
Greek | ρωγμή (chink, cleft, crevasse, crevice, fissure, rift), ράγισμα (cracking, flaw), ραγίζω (chap, flaw), σπάζω (break, break up, bust, fracture, go bust, smash, snap). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכה חזקה (chop, wallop), לפרוץ (breach, break, break forth, break through, burst, demolish, erupt, pry open, spout, spread), לפרק (break, decompose, disassemble, dismantle, take apart, take down, take to pieces), לפצל (cleave, divide, split), לפצח (cleave, split), להפקיע (break, tear), להפציע (be split, break forth, wound), להסדק (split), לסדוק (chap, fissure, fracture, split), לסדק, חריץ (crevice, ditch, fissure, flute, fluting, groove, jag, notch, rut, score, slit, slot), בקיע (breach, chap, chasm, cranny, crevice, fissile, fissure, hernia), סדיקה (fissure, split), סדק (chap, chink, cleft, cranny, fissure, flaw, fracture, rift, slit, split). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hasadás (breach, break, chink, cleavage, cracking, fission, fissure, flaw, rive, slit, split, tear), csattanás (bang, clap, clash, click, crash, dash, smack, snap, spat, tang). (various references) | |
Indonesian | retakan (fracture), retak (cracked, crevice, fissure, flaw), membetas (rip), keretakan (break, fracture), belah (cun in half, half, slit). (various references) | |
Italian | screpolatura (burst, chap, check, cracking, crevice, flaw), crepa (burst, cleft, crevice, fissure, flaw, rift, split), fessura (burst, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, leak, Rive, slit, slot, split), incrinatura (rift). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 亀裂 (chap, crevice, fissure). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すきま (crevice, gap, opening), きれつ (chap, crevice, fissure), ひび (chaps, daily, day after day, every day, fissure, flaw), さけめ (rent, tear), かつ (and, break, cut, dilute, divide, halve, rip, separate, smash, split, thirst, to gain victory, to win, yet), われめ (chasm, crevice, fissure, interstice, rift, split), クラック . (various references) | |
Korean | 균열 (Chap, chaps, Crevice, split). (various references) | |
Manx | scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), scaaney (chink, cleave, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure; mirror, flaw, fracture, interstice, rend), jeh'n cheid chummey, gaaigey (chap, split), frap (bang, pop, report, smack). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fenda (aperture, breach, chap, chink, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fracture, gap, hiatus, leak, pit, rent, rift, rip, slit, split), racha (chink, cranny, crevice, flaw, fracture, rent, rift, slit, split), greta (chink, cranny, rift), estrondo (bang, boom, clap, clash, din, flaw, peal, rattle, rumble, smash, thunder), estalido (clack, cracking, crackling, flaw, flick, flip, snap), estalar (click, crash, explode, foliate, hurtle, lap, plash, snap, splash). (various references) | |
Romanian | calitatea întâi (prime beef), claca, cot (bend, crook, cubit, curvature, curve, elbow, Ell, knee, knuckle, loop, meander, sweep, turn, turning, twist, winding), crãpa (break, burst, chap, check, cleave, flaw, half-open, hook it, rift, slit, splinter, split, split a log, spring, wolf), crãpãturã (breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, cranny, crevasse, crevice, eyehole, fissure, flaw, loophole, Nick, rent, rift, slit, slot, split, yawn), crac (bang, crash, leg, pop), curburã (bend, bent, buckle, camber, crook, curvature, curve, flexion, flexure, sweep), dãrâma (annihilate, batter, blight, break down, crumble, crush, demolish, destroy, frustrate, pull down, raze, ruin, shatter, throw down, wreck), loviturã puternicã (oner, swipe, whack), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), glumã spiritualã, formidabil (formidable, terrible, tremendous, well), excelent (a1, best, capital, champion, clinking, consummate, excellent, excellently, exquisite, fine, first rate, golden, great, noble, passing, roaring, special, splendid, that's capital, tiptop, topping), dogi (break up), destupa (clear, uncork), descoperi (descry, detect, disclose, discover, ferret, find out, fish, grub, hit, invent, lay open, nose out, open, reveal, rip, spy, strike, uncover, unearth, unravel), încercare (attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, experiment, go, hardship, proof, shy, suffering, tempting, tentative, test, trial, try, visitation, whack), de elitã (select), pac (bang, pop), îndoiturã (bent, buckle, cockle, crease, flection, fold, sag), deschide (break away, broach, commence, cut, indict, lead, lead off, let in, open, open up, start, uncork, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unseal, unstop), se schimba (alter, break, change, chop, convert, vary), voce spartã, trosni (clack, crackle, decrepitate, grit, snap), trosnet (bang, clack, crash), tronc (thump, well), tac (cue, slap, smack, tramp), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), spirit (apparition, essence, genius, ghost, intellect, mind, quirk, score, shade, shadow, soul, spectre, spirit, spirituousness, sprite, vision, wit), sparge (annihilate, batter, break, burst, chip away, chop, crush, cut, dash, destroy, flaw, pick, rip, smash, snap, splinter, split), pãlãvrãgealã (chatter, chit chat, gabble, prate, prattle, rigmarole), se sparge (break, burst, chip, comb, flaw, go snap, smash, snap, snap off), pãlãvrãgi (babble, chatter, confabulate, gossip, humbug, jabber, prate, twaddle), se crãpa (fissure, flaw, rend, spring), schimba brusc, pumn zdravãn, pocniturã din bici, pocni (bash, clack, click, crackle, hit), pocnet (bang, clap, click, flap, flip, phut, smack, snap), poc (bang, crash, pop), palmã (clout, cuff, palm, slap, span, spank), vorbã de duh (jest, joke, Sally), sfãrâma (batter, burst, crackle, crunch, destroy, disrupt, fritter, granulate, grind, knap, mill, ruin, shatter, shiver, smash, split). (various references) | |
Russian | расщелина (cleft, crevice, fissure, opening), раскол (cleavage, disruption, dissidence, schism, secession, split), щель (areaway, call slot, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, hiatus, interstice, notch, peep, rent, rift, slit, slit trench, slot), щелкать (click, flip, snap, snapped, snapping), трескаться трещина, трескаться (chap), треск (clack, crackling, crash, rattle, snap), трещать (blether, crackle, rattle), трещина (cavity, chap, check, chink, cleft, cranny, fissure, flaw, fracture, joint, rent, rift, slit, split, vug), крекировать, затрещина (clout), ломаться (break, conk), производить треск. (various references) | |
Scottish | sgag (cause to split, filter, shrink, split, winnow). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slomiti (break, crush, destroy, fracture, shatter), razbiti (break, break down, bust up, crash, overwhelm, shatter, smash), pukotina (cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, leak, rent, seam), pucanj (gunshot, pop, shot), pući (break, burst, bust up, click, fire, give way to, pop, pop off, rupture, snap), prasak (bang, blasting, burst, clap, peal, pop), naprsnuti, naprslina (leak, rift, split), lomiti (break, fracture), krckati (crunch, knap), izvaliti (blurt), dešifrovati (decipher, decode, unscramble). (various references) | |
Spanish | hendedura (burst, chasm, chink, cleavage, cleft, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, gash, incision, rift, slit, split), grieta (burst, chasm, chink, cleft, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, flaw, rift, seam, shake, split), quebraja (burst, crevice, flaw), crujido (crackle, creak, creaking, crunch, gride, rattle, rustle, scrunch, squeak, swish, swoosh). (various references) | |
Swedish | spricka (break, burst, chink, cleavage, crevice, fissure, flaw, go phut, plough, rent, score), spräcka (break, flaw), rämna (breach, burst, chink, cleavage, cleft, fissure, rend, rent, split, tear, to), knall (bang, clap, detonation, report), knäcka (break, dish, kill, puncture, ruin), brak (crasch, crash, peal, smash). (various references) | |
Thai | พยายามทำบางสิ่ง (have a crack at). (various references) | |
Turkish | şaklama (click, cracking noise, swish), çatırdamak (chatter, clack, clash, crackle, creak, crepitate, make a crackling noise, scrunch, snap), çatırdatmak (crackle, scrunch), çatırtı (clack, crackle, crackling noise, crash, crunch, scrunch, smash), çatallaşmak (fork), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring, touched), çatlamak (burst, chap, cleave, craze, dehisce, die of exhaustion, fracture, split, spring), çatlatmak (chap, craze, flaw, rift, split), çene çalma (gabfest, prattle), özür (allegation, amends, apologetic, apologetical, apology, defect, disablement, excuse, flaw, handicap, pardon, putoff, reparation, vice), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, sag, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside), as (ace, Ermine, stoat), yarılmak (burst, chap, cleave, dehisce, rip, slit, split off, tear, yawn), şaklatmak (click, smack, snap, swish, whang), şiddetle vurma, birinci sınıf şey (topper), deneme (assay, bash, dissertation, effort, essay, experiment, experimentation, fling, go, pilot, practice, probation, proof, proving, shakedown, shot, study, tentative, test, testing, touch, trial, try, try out, whack, workout), espri (drollery, humor, humour, quip, quirk, Sally, salt, wisecrack, witticism), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), patlama (bang, blow out, blowup, boom, burst, burst up, detonating, detonation, eruption, explosion, fireworks, fulminating, fulmination, outburst, plosion, puncture, simmer), patlamak (blow, blow out, blow up, break, burst, detonate, erupt, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, go up, knock back, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, puncture, set back, snap, spring), vuruş (bat, battery, batting, beat, beating, chop, crusher, cut, hack, hit, impact, knock, plug, pulse, scoop, shoot, shot, sock, strike, stroke, swat, thwack, whack, wipe), aralık (ajar, aperture, daylight, Dec, December, gangway, gap, half-open, hiatus, Interspace, interstice, interval, Lacuna, rift, separation, space, spacing, time). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юyrkyldamak (crackle, snap), юatyrdy (crash), юartyldy (crash), яaryk (crevice, fissure), jaяryk (fissure, split), зat (crevice, split). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тріщати (clabber, crackle), ляскати (clabber, clap, shingle, slam, spat), ляскіт, здуріти (be out of one's wits, dement), збожеволіти (dement, go mad, lose one's senses, run mad), шикарний (class, classy, slap up), шуміти (bluster, chide, clamor, clamour, clutter, din, horse about, horse around, noise, racket, roar, whir, whirr), першорядний (a, champion, first, first rate, nailing, spiffing), тріщина (break, chap, chink, chop, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, rift), розколюватися (fissure, rift, split), тріск (clabber, crackle, crash, crunch, knack, phut, pop, rattle, zip), тріскатися (flaw), чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), щілина (air space, aperture, chap, chink, chop, cleft, cranny, notch, opening, peep), розбивати (batter, break, defeat, demolish, destroy, outbreak, split, stave in), розколювати (polarize, rift, split, sunder), тарах. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xuất sắc (capital, capitally, classy, clinking, distinguished, egregious, excellent, jim-dandy, noble, prime, shining, top-notch). (various references) | |
Welsh | cracio, crac, clecian (clack, click, snap), clec (clack, click, gossip), agennu (slot, split). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fragor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dia touto estai umin h amartia auth wV teicoV pipton paracrhma polewV ocuraV ealwkuiaV hV paracrhma parestin to ptwma |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Propterea erit vobis iniquitas haec sicut interruptio cadens et requisita in muro excelso quoniam subito dum non speratur veniet contritio eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfore shal be to you this wickidnesse as betwe brosure fallende, and ayeen soyt in an heey wal; for sodeynly whil me hopeth not, shal come the to-brosing of it. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Tungod niini kining kasal-anan mahimo alang kaninyo ingon sa usa ka guba nga kuta nga andam sa pagkapukan, nga nagapatong sa usa ka hataas nga kuta, kansang pagkaguba modangat sa kalit sa dihadiha. |
| Croatian | grijeh æe vam taj biti poput pukotine, visoko na zidu izboèene, koja prijeti rušenjem. |
| Danish | derfor skal denne Brøde blive for eder som en truende, voksende Revne i en knejsende Mur, hvis Fald vil indtræffe brat, lige i et Nu; |
| Dutch | Daarom zal ulieden deze misdaad zijn gelijk een vallende scheur, uitwaarts gebogen in een hogen muur, welks breuk haastelijk in een ogenblik komen zal. |
| Finnish | niin tämä synti on oleva kuin repeämä korkeassa muurissa, joka uhkaa sortua ja pullistuu; se särkyy äkkiä, yhtäkkiä. |
| French | Ce crime sera pour vous Comme une partie crevassée qui menace ruine Et fait saillie dans un mur élevé, Dont l`écroulement arrive tout à coup, en un instant: |
| German | so soll euch solche Untugend sein wie ein Riß an einer hohen Mauer, wenn es beginnt zu rieseln, die plötzlich unversehens einfällt und zerschmettert, |
| Haitian Creole | Enben, se nou ki va pote chay la. Nou tankou yon miray ki make fann, tankou yon gwo miray byen wo ki gen yon pati ladan l' k'ap souke, ki gonfle prèt pou tonbe. N'ap rete konsa, n'ap tonbe anvan nou bat je nou. |
| Hungarian | Azért e bûn olyan lesz tinéktek, mint a leesendõ falhasadék, a mely már kiáll a magas kõfalon, a melynek aztán nagy hirtelen jõ el romlása; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab itu kamu bersalah. Kamu seperti tembok tinggi yang retak dari atas ke bawah; dengan tiba-tiba saja kamu akan roboh. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | sebab itu kesalahan ini menjadi bagimu akan suatu belah dari atas sampai ke bawah pada pagar tembok yang tinggi, yang melentur keluar, dan yang kerobohannya akan jadi dengan segera pada sesaat juga; |
| Italian | ebbene questa colpa diventerà per voi come una breccia che minaccia di crollare, che sporge su un alto muro, il cui crollo avviene in un attimo, improvviso, |
| Maori | Na, ko te tukunga iho o tenei he ki a koutou, ka rite ki te pakaru o te taiepa, meake nei hinga, kua ngawha haere i te wahi tiketike, kitea rawatia ake kua puta whakarere tona pakaru. |
| Norwegian | derfor skal denne misgjerning bli eder som et falleferdig stykke som skyver sig mere og mere frem på en høi mur, inntil muren med ett, i et øieblikk, styrter sammen og knuses; |
| Portuguese | por isso esta maldade vos será como brecha que, prestes a cair, já forma barriga num alto muro, cuja queda virá subitamente, num momento. |
| Rumanian | de aceea nelegiuirea aceasta va fi pentru voi ca spqrtura unui zid knalt, care, spqrgkndu-se, ameninyq sq cadq, wi a cqrui prqbuwire vine deodatq, kntr`o clipq: |
| Russian | ФП ВЕЪЪБЛПОЙЕ ЬФП ВХДЕФ ДМС ЧБУ, ЛБЛ ХЗТПЦБАЭБС РБДЕОЙЕН ФТЕЭЙОБ, ПВОБТХЦЙЧЫБСУС Ч ЧЩУПЛПК УФЕОЕ, ЛПФПТПК ТБЪТХЫЕОЙЕ ОБУФБОЕФ ЧОЕЪБРОП, Ч ПДОП НЗОПЧЕОЙЕ. |
| Spanish | por eso, este pecado os será como muro agrietado que se abre y cae, como un alto muro al cual de repente, en un instante, le viene su quebrantamiento. |
| Swedish | därför skall denna missgärning bliva för eder såsom ett fallfärdigt stycke på en hög mur, vilket mer och mer giver sig ut, till dess att muren plötsligt och med hast störtar ned och krossas; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crack": crackajack, crackajacks, crackback, crackbacks, crackbrain, crackbrained, crackbrains, crackdown, crackdowns, cracked, cracker, crackerjack, crackerjacks, crackers, cracking, crackings, crackle, crackled, crackles, crackleware, cracklewares, cracklier, crackliest, crackling, cracklings, crackly, cracknel, cracknels, crackpot, crackpots, cracks, cracksman, cracksmen, crackup, crackups, cracky. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crack": anticrack, gimcrack, hydrocrack, wisecrack. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crack": firecracker, firecrackers, gimcrackeries, gimcrackery, gimcracks, hydrocracked, hydrocracker, hydrocrackers, hydrocracking, hydrocrackings, hydrocracks, nutcracker, nutcrackers, safecracker, safecrackers, safecracking, safecrackings, shellcracker, shellcrackers, uncracked, wisecracked, wisecracker, wisecrackers, wisecracking, wisecracks. (additional references) | |
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"Crack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrack, Cacak, cacki, ccacc, ceack, chack, chacok, craark, crace, crach, cracka, Crackow, cracky, crackz, cract, craic, craik, Crak, crc, crecca, creck, creco, crickl, Crik, croack, croci, Crocky, crrec, crrick, cruck, crusk, Drack, frack, krack, Krak, Krick, rick, Schrack. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crack" (pronounced kra"k) |
| 3 | -r a" k | rack, track, wrack. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-k-r" | |
-1 letter: cark, rack. | |
-2 letters: arc, ark, car. | |
-3 letters: ar, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-k-r" | |
+1 letter: carack, cracks, cracky. | |
+2 letters: cackler, caprock, caracks, carrack, carsick, clacker, cracked, cracker, crackle, crackly, crackup. | |
+3 letters: aircheck, cacklers, caprocks, carracks, charlock, clackers, coatrack, corncake, crackers, cracking, crackled, crackles, cracknel, crackpot, crackups, gimcrack, rickrack, rucksack, stockcar. | |
+4 letters: airchecks, anticrack, backcourt, backcross, backtrack, carjacker, carryback, charlocks, checkmark, chickaree, coachwork, coatracks, cockroach, corncakes, corncrake, crabstick, crackback, crackdown, crackings, cracklier, crackling, cracknels, crackpots, cracksman, cracksmen, crankcase, crookback, gimcracks, jackscrew, racetrack, raincheck, rickracks, rucksacks, stockcars, uncracked, wisecrack. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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