Word Finder - cracks

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A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

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A large crack had formed in the roadway.

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A narrow opening.

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Open the door a crack.

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A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

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I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.

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Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.

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crack head

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The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.

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The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.

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Any sharp sound.

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The crack of the bat hitting the ball.

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A sharp, resounding blow.

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An attempt at something.

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I'd like to take a crack at that game.

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Vagina.

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I'm so horny even the crack of dawn isn't safe!

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The space between the buttocks.

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Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.

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Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.

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He/she is quare good crack.

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Business; events; news.

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What's the crack?

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A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.

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Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?

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(elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.

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Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.

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The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

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A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.

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He has a crack.

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A crazy or crack-brained person.

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A boast; boasting.

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Breach of chastity.

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A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

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A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.

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I'll be with you in a crack.

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To form cracks.

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It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.

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To break apart under pressure.

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When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.

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To become debilitated by psychological pressure.

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Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.

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To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.

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When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.

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To make a cracking sound.

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The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.

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(of a voice) To change rapidly in register.

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His voice cracked with emotion.

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(of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.

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His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.

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To make a sharply humorous comment.

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"I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.

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To make a crack or cracks in.

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The ball cracked the window.

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To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.

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You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.

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To strike forcefully.

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She cracked him over the head with her handbag.

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To open slightly.

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Could you please crack the window?

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To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)

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They managed to crack him on the third day.

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To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)

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I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.

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To overcome a security system or a component.

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It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.

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To cause to make a sharp sound.

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to crack a whip

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To tell (a joke).

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The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.

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To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.

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Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.

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To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.

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That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.

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To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

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I'd love to crack open a beer.

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To brag, boast.

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To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

Darian and Jonny were cracks in her armor.

It must be used with extreme care, and in small quantities, and it must not be used at all where cuts or cracks are present in the skin.

A ripe leaf easily cracks or shows a crease when folded between the fingers.

The spores germinate on a damp surface and enter the cortex through small cracks or wounds in the protecting layer.

One of the great objections to the appearance of concrete is the fact that soon after its erection irregular cracks invariably appear on its surface.

These cracks are probably due to shrinkage while setting, aggravated by changes in temperature.

In the case of a smooth concrete face there are no joints to follow, and the cracks become an ugly feature.

The action of frost is also very destructive to many stones, since the water within their cracks and crannies expands on freezing and splits off small pieces from their surfaces.

They are sometimes regulated by forming artificial "joints" in the structure by embedding strips of wood or sheet iron at regular intervals, thus forming "lines of weakness," at which the cracks therefore take place.

The nodules are penetrated by cracks,;but the material can be worked on the lathe.

The root is made to press its way into the darker cracks and crannies of the soil, so bringing its root-hairs into better contact with the particles round which the hygroscopic water hangs.

There may be concentric series of cracks one within another.

Occasionally the rounded cracks extend from the matrix into some of the crystals especially those of quartz which have naturally a conchoidal fracture.

These cracks coincide with planes of easy separation or of gliding in the crystal; they are especially useful in helping to determine the crystallographic orientation of a cleavage flake of mica when crystal faces are absent.

In order to secure tightness in spite of cracks, mercury was placed in the bends.

We went to where the pattern started, and there were the cracks.

Sheets of mica very often show coloured rings and bands (Newton's rings), due to the interference of light at the surfaces of internal cleavage cracks.

Against this Austria protested, as having the same right as Prussia to Kiel; an angry correspondence followed; but neither power was quite prepared for war, and on the 20th of August 1865 the convention of Gastein, to use Bistnarcks phrase, papered over the cracks.

It often fills cracks and fissures in the rock.

In the case of the Neuadd dam this difficulty was met by deliberately omitting the mortar in transverse joints at regular intervals near the top of the dam, except just at their faces, where it of course cracks harmlessly, and by filling the rest with asphalt.

Their flower-like faces as they swear undying loyalty, small, deep cracks in their emerald.

Fine cracks can be caused by shrinkage, or be evidence of live plaster.

My samples were growing out of cracks in the concrete sidewalk beside a busy four lane highway.

Look for cracks in the pipe, or see if the o-ring seal is perished where the pipe bolts on to the pump.

Evidences of shallow water conditions arc abundant; very frequently on the bedding surfaces of sandstones and other rocks we find cracks made by the sun's heat and pittings caused by the showers that fell from the Cambrian sky, and these records of the weather of this remote period are preserved as sharply and clearly as those made only to-day on our tidal reaches.

It is ready for gathering when the core cracks and separates easily from the fibre.

Steel plates and shapes, when delivered from the rolls which form them to the cooling beds, are largely covered with scales, which, adhering only partially to the surface, offer the intervening cracks or joints as vulnerable points for rust.

All finished material is carefully examined to see that it possesses a smooth surface, and that it is free from cracks, seams and other defects, and that it is true to section throughout.

Among the sedimentary rocks we have, for example, in the clay slates of the Silurian formations, rocks no less cracked and fissured than others, but generally quite impermeable by reason of the joints being packed with the very fine clay resulting from the rubbing of slate upon slate in the earth movements to which the cracks are due.

Imagine for a moment that the sand grains were by any means rendered immobile without change in the permeability of their interspaces; we could then dispense with the iron or brickwork lining of the well; but as there would still be no cracks or fissures to extend the area of percolating water exposed to the open well, the yield would be very small.

It is stated, however, that these cracks close up and become practically water-tight as the water rises.

By reason of the constantly changing temperatures and the frequent filling and emptying of the reservoir, expansion and contraction, which are always at work tending to produce relative movements wherever one portion of a structure is weaker than another, must have assisted the water-pressure in the extension of the horizontal cracks, which, growing slowly during the fifteen years, provided at last the area required to enable the intrusive water to overbalance the little remaining stability of the dam.

Their surfaces often show minute crescentic or rounded cracks which are the edges of small conchoidal fractures produced by the impact of one pebble on another during storms or floods.

Gum arabic occurs in pieces of varying size, and some kinds are full of minute cracks.

It gives with water a somewhat stronger mucilage than gum arabic, from which it is distinguished by its clear interior, fewer cracks and greater toughness.

Their flat body enables them to squeeze into extremely narrow cracks and crevices, where they prey on small arthropods and worms.

Many different kinds of weird and wonderful beetles and other invertebrates may live in the cracks in gnarled and fissured old bark.

The major, and most painful conditions include bunions, blisters and sores, ingrown toenails, cracks and fungus.

Water filtering down through the rock has deposited calcite, gypsum, baryte and celestine in the cracks, sometimes as well-formed crystals.

Lining your chimney will cure problems of smoke leaking out through cracks in a masonry chimney.

Be sure to set camp away from tiny cracks, those possibly hiding the mouths of large crevasses.

Then, in the subtlest suggestion of wartime devastation, this instinct civilization falls back through the cracks.

Make sure that your horses ' feet are regularly trimmed and shod, by a competent farrier, to prevent hoof cracks.

The firing of shots may ignite firedamp in breaks or cracks in the shot holes, or it may ignite outside the shot holes.

Some cracks in old pipe can leak for decades causing large fissures running through the ground.

The first clue is that Tula flakes may show one or more unresolved ring cracks present on the striking platform.

They are in fact, more complex structures involving a honeycomb of cracks and crevices in which bacteria thrive.

An oncoming car honks and crashes into Mulder, sending him flying up into the windshield, which cracks.

In visiting the hygienist Why don't cracks show up on a dental x-ray?

Japanese Anemone (Anemone hupehensis var. japonica) - creeping rhizomes spread through flowerbeds, they can penetrate cracks in paving and walls.