Word Meanings - CRACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2.

Additional info about word: CRACK

cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crake, Cracknel, 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2. To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old hear is cracked. Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon. 3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip. 4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. B. Jonson. 5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. -- To crack a crib, to commit burglary. -- To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRACK)

• Interstice
• Chink
• interval
• interspace
• cleft
• cranny
• fissure
• gap
• crack
• Split
• Divide
• separate
• rive
• cleave
• splinter
• burst
• rend
• sunder
• disagree
• secede
• disunite

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CRACK)

• Cohere
• hold
• stand

Related words: (words related to CRACK)

• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• CLEAVER
  One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• DISAGREER
  One who disagrees. Hammond.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• SPLIT SWITCH
  = Point switch.
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• CLEFT
  from Cleave.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• ANTICOHERER
  A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The
• TWO-CLEFT
  Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.