different between creaming vs cracking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?i?m??/

Verb

creaming

1. present participle of cream

Noun

creaming (countable and uncountable, plural creamings)

1. A cookery technique in which fat and sugar are mixed together with the incorporation of air to form a cream.
2. The act by which something is creamed.
   • 1933, Bureau of Standards Journal of Research (volume 10, page 482)

     The number of creamings necessary to reduce the impurities to a negligible amount was estimated from the relative volumes of the upper and lower layers, by assuming that the soluble impurities were uniformly distributed between the layers […]

Anagrams

• Germanic, amercing, germanic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?æk??/
• Rhymes: -æk??

Noun

cracking (plural crackings)

1. (chemistry) The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline.
2. The formation of cracks on a surface.
3. The production of a crack sound.

   the crackings of whips

Translations

Adjective

cracking

1. That cracks; that produces a sharp sound as of something splitting or breaking.
2. (colloquial) Great.

3. (colloquial) Enjoyable.

Translations

Adverb

cracking (not comparable)

1. (Britain) Very, usually associated with praise.

   It was a cracking good show.

Verb

cracking

1. present participle of crack

Derived terms

• get cracking