different between fracking vs wracking

fracking

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

fracking From the web:

  • what fracking means
  • what fracking does to the environment
  • what's fracking in politics
  • what's fracking oil
  • what fracking means in spanish
  • what fracking does to water
  • what fracking sounds like
  • fracking what chemicals are used


wracking

English

Verb

wracking

  1. present participle of wrack

Anagrams

  • crawking

wracking From the web:

  • what does wracking mean
  • what's nerve wracking
  • what does wracking
  • what is wracking my brain
  • what means wracking
  • what does nerve wracking mean
  • wrecking ball
  • what rhymes with wracking
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share

you may also like