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Cracking

adjective

1.

Very good. Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell. "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"

noun

1.

A sudden sharp noise. Synonyms: crack, snap. "He heard the cracking of the ice" , "He can hear the snap of a twig"

2.

The act of cracking something. Synonyms: crack, fracture.

3.

The process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process).

Crack

verb

(past & past part. cracked; pres. part. cracking)

1.

Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only. Synonyms: break, check.

2.

Make a very sharp explosive sound.

3.

Make a sharp sound. Synonym: snap.

4.

Hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise.

5.

Pass through (a barrier). Synonym: break through.

6.

Break partially but keep its integrity.

7.

Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension. Synonym: snap.

8.

Gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions. "Crack a safe"

9.

Suffer a nervous breakdown. Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up.

10.

Tell spontaneously.

11.

Cause to become cracked.

12.

Reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking.

13.

Break into simpler molecules by means of heat.

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... inflation. However, the Georgian Government has suffered from limited resources due to a chronic failure to collect tax revenues. Georgia's new government is making progress in reforming the tax code, enforcing taxes, and cracking down on corruption. Georgia also suffers from energy shortages; it privatized the T'bilisi electricity distribution network in 1998, but payment collection rates remain low, both in T'bilisi and throughout the regions. The country is pinning its hopes for long-term ...

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... apiece, which gave them the appearance of being armed to the teeth—a more determined-looking band cannot be imagined. The horses of these burghers were well bred and in good condition, and, although their clothes were threadbare, they seemed cheerful enough, smoking their pipes and cracking ...

— South African Memories - Social, Warlike & Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time • Lady Sarah Wilson

... nutpicks and bowls, and Mr. Maynard and Dick Fulton took the other two nutcrackers, and then work began in earnest. But the work was really play, and they all enjoyed cracking and picking out the nuts, though what they were doing it for nobody knew. But with so many at it, it was soon over, and the result was several bowlsful of kernels. The shells were thrown into the fire, and ...

— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells

... began to find means of dealing, not with the dependent family alone but with the family in danger of becoming dependent—not with the family broken and estranged only, but with the one whose bonds, even if cracking and ...

— Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment • Joanna C. Colcord

... you suppose has become of Mr. Thorn?" said Constance. "I have a presentiment that you will find him cracking nuts sociably with Mr. Rossitur, or drinking one of aunt Lucy's excellent cups of coffee, in ...

— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell

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