2. Verb. (third-person singular of crack) ¹
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Definition of Cracks
1. crack [v] - See also: crack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cracks
Literary usage of Cracks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1910)
"cracks IN WALLS AND CHIMNEYS. In Mallet's great report on the Neapolitan earthquake
of 1857 he assumed that the waves were propagated thru buildings just as ..."
2. Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements by John Milne (1899)
"cracks and fissures—Materials discharged from fissures—Explanation of ...
cracks and fissures formed in the ground.—Almost nil large earthquakes have ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Sand will tend to preserve the cracks into which it precipitates. ... Carbonaceous
deposits occur in pluvial climates, and mud-cracks, as contrasted with ..."
4. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Sun cracks.—When dried under the sun's rays for a sufficiently long time, mud
and clay shrink and crack in a network of fissures which inclose polygonal ..."
5. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1914)
"Sun cracks in Newark shale, about ,/4 natural size material, which thus forms
the cracked surface. When the next flood arrives, it carries coarser material, ..."
6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Mid-West Cement Users' Association (1906)
"HAIR cracks, CRAZING OR MAP cracks ON CONCRETE SURFACES. BY ALBERT MOYER. As an
introduction to the subject to be discussed I do not think it would be amiss ..."
7. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"Frost- cracks in a maple, which have opened for several successive winters.
FROST-cracks Caused by low temperatures There are two sorts of frost-cracks ..."
8. Mars as the Abode of Life by Percival Lowell (1908)
"Nor can the lines be cracks in the surface, because Not cracks. cracks also are
not straight, and because cracks end ..."
9. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1910)
"cracks IN WALLS AND CHIMNEYS. In Mallet's great report on the Neapolitan earthquake
of 1857 he assumed that the waves were propagated thru buildings just as ..."
10. Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements by John Milne (1899)
"cracks and fissures—Materials discharged from fissures—Explanation of ...
cracks and fissures formed in the ground.—Almost nil large earthquakes have ..."
11. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Sand will tend to preserve the cracks into which it precipitates. ... Carbonaceous
deposits occur in pluvial climates, and mud-cracks, as contrasted with ..."
12. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Sun cracks.—When dried under the sun's rays for a sufficiently long time, mud
and clay shrink and crack in a network of fissures which inclose polygonal ..."
13. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1914)
"Sun cracks in Newark shale, about ,/4 natural size material, which thus forms
the cracked surface. When the next flood arrives, it carries coarser material, ..."
14. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Mid-West Cement Users' Association (1906)
"HAIR cracks, CRAZING OR MAP cracks ON CONCRETE SURFACES. BY ALBERT MOYER. As an
introduction to the subject to be discussed I do not think it would be amiss ..."
15. Manual of Tree Diseases by William Howard Rankin (1918)
"Frost- cracks in a maple, which have opened for several successive winters.
FROST-cracks Caused by low temperatures There are two sorts of frost-cracks ..."
16. Mars as the Abode of Life by Percival Lowell (1908)
"Nor can the lines be cracks in the surface, because Not cracks. cracks also are
not straight, and because cracks end ..."
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