Difference between Crack and Cracking

What is the difference between Crack and Cracking?

Crack as a noun is a thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. while Cracking as a noun is the thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline.

Crack

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. A narrow opening. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack. A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe. The sharp sound made when solid material breaks. Any sharp sound. An opportunity to attempt something. vagina. The space between the buttocks. Conviviality; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humourous storytelling; good company. Business/events A program, password or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software. a meaningful chat. good fun. (See usage note re Scots sense). Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Highly trained and competent. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To form cracks. To break apart under pressure. To become debilitated by psychological pressure. To yield under interrogation. To make a cracking sound. To change rapidly in register. To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering. To make a sharply humorous comment. To make a crack or cracks in. To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress. To strike forcefully. To open slightly. To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative) To solve a difficult problem. To overcome a security system or a component. To cause to make a sharp sound. To tell (a joke). To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse. To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits. To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

Example sentence: Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Cracking

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: GreatEnjoyable.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To form cracks.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Very, usually associated with praise.

Example sentence: I cannot read on a Kindle. I love the physical experience of holding a book, cracking it open, and the process of making the right half weigh less than the left half. I only read hardcover books because I like the resistance and the presence on a bookshelf.

We hope you now know whether to use Crack or Cracking in your sentence.

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