different between fracking vs cracking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?æk??/

Etymology 1

frack +? -ing

Alternative forms

• fraccing, fracing

Noun

fracking (usually uncountable, plural frackings)

1. (oil industry) Hydraulic fracturing.
   • 2010, Andrew Chung, "Quebec between a rock and a hard place on gas from shale," Toronto Star, 25 July (retrieved 26 July 2010):

     Still, environmentalists look to the U.S., where drilling with fracking is now a “megatrend” and where thousands of wells dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. They worry about higher greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional natural gas—because of the energy used to get the gas—and water contamination.

Translations

Descendants

• ? Korean: ??? (peuraeking)

Etymology 2

frack +? -ing

Adjective

fracking (not comparable)

1. (slang, euphemistic, bowdlerization) Fucking.

Further reading

• fracking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

fracking m (uncountable)

1. fracking

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