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📖 Определения и значения для слова crack

📒 to break without dividing into separate parts; to break something in this way

  • The ice cracked as I stepped onto it.
  • crack something He has cracked a bone in his arm.
  • The dish had cracked quite badly.

📒 to break open or into pieces; to break something in this way

  • + adv./prep. A chunk of the cliff had cracked off in a storm.
  • (figurative) His face cracked into a smile.
  • crack something to crack a nut

📒 to hit something/somebody in a short hard manner

  • I cracked my head on the low ceiling.
  • He cracked me on the head with a ruler.
  • He stood up suddenly, cracking his head on the low ceiling.

📒 to make a sharp sound; to make something do this

  • A shot cracked across the ridge.
  • [no passive] crack something He cracked his whip and galloped away.

📒 if your voice cracks, it changes in depth, volume, etc. suddenly and in a way that you cannot control

  • In a voice cracking with emotion, he told us of his son's death.

📒 to no longer be able to function normally because of pressure

  • Things are terrible at work and people are cracking under the strain.
  • They questioned him for days before he cracked.
  • The old institutions are cracking.

📒 to find the solution to a problem, etc; to find the way to do something difficult

  • to crack the enemy’s code
  • (informal) After a year in this job I think I've got it cracked!
  • ‘How's the investigation going?’ ‘I think we've cracked it.’

📒 to find a way of stopping or defeating a criminal or an enemy

  • Police have cracked a major drugs ring.

📒 to open a bottle, especially of wine, and drink it

📒 to tell a joke

📒 to use your authority or power to make somebody work very hard, usually by treating them in a strict way

📒 to make jokes

  • This entertainer can crack wise with the best of them.

📒 to begin immediately and work quickly

  • There's a lot to be done, so let's get cracking.

📒 a difficult problem or situation to deal with

📒 not as good as people say

  • He's not nearly such a good writer as he's cracked up to be.

📒 to use more force than is necessary

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