{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "kræk" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/crack.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).\nCognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gìrgžděti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian կարկաչ (karkačʿ), Sanskrit गर्जति (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).", "Of unknown origin." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To form cracks.\nIt's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.\nWhen I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.\nAnyone would crack after being hounded like that." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.\nWhen we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To make a cracking sound.\nThe bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.\nHis voice cracked with emotion." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.\nHis voice finally cracked when he was fourteen." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.\n\"I would too, with a face like that,\" she cracked." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, LGBT, slang) To realize that one is transgender.\nShe cracked at age 22 and came out to her friends and family over the next few months." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.\nThe ball cracked the window." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.\nYou'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To strike forcefully.\nShe cracked him over the head with her handbag." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To open slightly.\nCould you please crack the window?" }, { "mean": "(transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.\nThey managed to crack him on the third day." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.\nI've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To overcome a security system or component.\nIt took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.\nThey finally cracked the code." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.\nto crack a whip" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To tell (a joke).\nThe performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke." }, { "mean": "(transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.\nAcetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C." }, { "mean": "(transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.\nThat software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it." }, { "mean": "(transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.\nI'd love to crack open a beer.\nLet's crack a tube and watch the game." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To brag; to boast." }, { "mean": "(archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail." }, { "mean": "(colloquial) To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).\nAn underground band that never cracked the Hot 100" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.\nA large crack had formed in the roadway." }, { "mean": "A narrow opening.\nWe managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.\nOpen the door a crack." }, { "mean": "A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.\nI didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle." }, { "mean": "(slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.\ncrack head", "submean": [ "(figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.\nkitty crack ― catnip\n" ] }, { "mean": "(onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.\nThe crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles." }, { "mean": "(onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.\nThe crack of the bat hitting the ball." }, { "mean": "A sharp, resounding blow." }, { "mean": "(informal) An attempt at something.\nI'd like to take a crack at that game." }, { "mean": "(vulgar, slang) Vagina." }, { "mean": "(informal) The space between the buttocks.\nSynonym: buttcrack\nPull up your pants! Your crack is showing." }, { "mean": "(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.\nThe party was great crack." }, { "mean": "(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.\nWhat's the crack?\nWhat's this crack about a possible merger?" }, { "mean": "(computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.\nHas anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?" }, { "mean": "(hydrodynamics, US, dated) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.A nuclear explosion in shallow water; the crack is clearly visible on the water's surface.\nCoordinate term: slick" }, { "mean": "(Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat." }, { "mean": "(Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose." }, { "mean": "The tone of voice when changed at puberty." }, { "mean": "(archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.\nHe has a crack." }, { "mean": "(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.\nSynonym: crackpot" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A boast; boasting." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Breach of chastity." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy." }, { "mean": "(slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.\nI'll be with you in a crack." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Highly trained and competent.\nEven a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case." }, { "mean": "Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.\nShe's a crack shot with that rifle." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) One who excels; the best." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "“crack”, inLexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.\ncrack in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911\ncrack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. 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