The difference between Crack and Hack

When used as nouns, crack means a thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material, whereas hack means a tool for chopping.

When used as verbs, crack means to form cracks, whereas hack means to chop or cut down in a rough manner.

Crack is also adjective with the meaning: highly trained and competent.

check bellow for the other definitions of Crack and Hack

  1. Crack as a verb (intransitive):

    To form cracks.

    Examples:

    "It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack."

  2. Crack as a verb (intransitive):

    To break apart under pressure.

    Examples:

    "When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked."

  3. Crack as a verb (intransitive):

    To become debilitated by psychological pressure.

    Examples:

    "Anyone would crack after being hounded like that."

  4. Crack as a verb (intransitive):

    To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.

    Examples:

    "When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked."

  5. Crack as a verb (intransitive):

    To make a cracking sound.

    Examples:

    "The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six."

  6. Crack as a verb (intransitive, of a voice):

    To change rapidly in register.

    Examples:

    "His voice cracked with emotion."

  7. Crack as a verb (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice):

    To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.

    Examples:

    "His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen."

  8. Crack as a verb (intransitive):

    To make a sharply humorous comment.

    Examples:

    "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked."

  9. Crack as a verb (transitive):

    To make a crack or cracks in.

    Examples:

    "The ball cracked the window."

  10. Crack as a verb (transitive):

    To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.

    Examples:

    "You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut."

  11. Crack as a verb (transitive):

    To strike forcefully.

    Examples:

    "She cracked him over the head with her handbag."

  12. Crack as a verb (transitive):

    To open slightly.

    Examples:

    "Could you please crack the window?"

  13. Crack as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)

    Examples:

    "They managed to crack him on the third day."

  14. Crack as a verb (transitive):

    To solve a difficult problem.

    Examples:

    "I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight."

  15. Crack as a verb (transitive):

    To overcome a security system or a component.

    Examples:

    "It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe."

    "They finally cracked the code."

  16. Crack as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to make a sharp sound.

    Examples:

    "to crack a whip"

  17. Crack as a verb (transitive):

    To tell (a joke).

    Examples:

    "The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke."

  18. Crack as a verb (transitive, chemistry, informal):

    To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.

    Examples:

    "Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C."

  19. Crack as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.

    Examples:

    "That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it."

  20. Crack as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

    Examples:

    "I'd love to crack open a beer."

    "Let's crack a [[tube]] and watch the game."

  21. Crack as a verb (obsolete):

    To brag, boast.

  22. Crack as a verb (archaic, colloquial):

    To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

  1. Crack as a noun:

    A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

    Examples:

    "A large crack had formed in the roadway."

  2. Crack as a noun:

    A narrow opening.

    Examples:

    "We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall."

    "Open the door a crack."

  3. Crack as a noun:

    A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

    Examples:

    "I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle."

  4. Crack as a noun:

    A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.

  5. Crack as a noun (onomatopoeia):

    The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.

    Examples:

    "The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles."

  6. Crack as a noun (onomatopoeia):

    Any sharp sound.

    Examples:

    "The crack of the bat hitting the ball."

  7. Crack as a noun (informal):

    An attempt at something.

    Examples:

    "I'd like to take a crack at that game."

  8. Crack as a noun (vulgar, slang):

    Vagina.

    Examples:

    "I'm so horny even the crack of dawn isn't safe!"

  9. Crack as a noun (informal):

    The space between the buttocks.

    Examples:

    "Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing."

  10. Crack as a noun (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland):

    Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.

    Examples:

    "The crack was good."

    "That was good crack."

    "He/she is quare good crack."

    "The party was great crack."

  11. Crack as a noun (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland):

    Business; events; news.

    Examples:

    "What's the crack?"

    "What's this crack about a possible merger."

  12. Crack as a noun (computing):

    A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.

    Examples:

    "Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?"

  13. Crack as a noun (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK):

    a meaningful chat.

  14. Crack as a noun (Internet slang):

    Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.

  15. Crack as a noun:

    The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

  16. Crack as a noun (archaic):

    A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.

    Examples:

    "He has a crack."

  17. Crack as a noun (archaic):

    A crazy or crack-brained person.

  18. Crack as a noun (obsolete):

    A boast; boasting.

  19. Crack as a noun (obsolete):

    Breach of chastity.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  20. Crack as a noun (obsolete):

    A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

  21. Crack as a noun (slang, dated, UK):

    A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.

    Examples:

    "I'll be with you in a crack."

  1. Crack as an adjective:

    Highly trained and competent.

    Examples:

    "Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case."

  2. Crack as an adjective:

    Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

    Examples:

    "She's a crack shot with that rifle."

  1. Hack as a verb (transitive):

    To chop or cut down in a rough manner.

    Examples:

    "They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle."

  2. Hack as a verb (intransitive):

    To cough noisily.

    Examples:

    "This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking."

  3. Hack as a verb:

    To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.

    Examples:

    "Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?"

  4. Hack as a verb (computing):

    To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.

    Examples:

    "I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later."

  5. Hack as a verb (computing):

    To accomplish a difficult programming task.

    Examples:

    "He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected."

  6. Hack as a verb (computing, slang, transitive):

    To work with something on an intimately technical level.

    Examples:

    "I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection."

  7. Hack as a verb (transitive, colloquial, by extension):

    To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.

    Examples:

    "I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life."

  8. Hack as a verb (transitive, slang, computing):

    To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack.

  9. Hack as a verb (transitive, slang, computing):

    By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).

    Examples:

    "When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked."

  10. Hack as a verb (ice hockey):

    To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.

    Examples:

    "He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal."

  11. Hack as a verb (ice hockey):

    To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.

    Examples:

    "There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck."

  12. Hack as a verb (baseball):

    To swing at a pitched ball.

    Examples:

    "He went to the batter's box hacking."

  13. Hack as a verb (soccer and rugby):

    To kick (a player) on the shins.

  14. Hack as a verb:

    To strike in a frantic movement.

  15. Hack as a verb (transitive):

    To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.

  1. Hack as a noun:

    A tool for chopping.

  2. Hack as a noun:

    A hacking blow.

  3. Hack as a noun:

    A gouge or notch made by such a blow.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  4. Hack as a noun:

    A dry cough.

  5. Hack as a noun:

    A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Dr. H. More"

  6. Hack as a noun (figuratively):

    A try, an attempt.

  7. Hack as a noun (curling):

    The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.

  8. Hack as a noun (obsolete):

    A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.

  9. Hack as a noun (computing):

    An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.

  10. Hack as a noun (computing):

    An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.

  11. Hack as a noun (colloquial):

    A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.

    Examples:

    "Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack."

  12. Hack as a noun (computing, slang):

    An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.

  13. Hack as a noun (computing, slang):

    A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.

  14. Hack as a noun (slang, military):

    Time check.

  15. Hack as a noun (baseball):

    A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.

    Examples:

    "He took a few hacks, but the pitcher finally struck him out."

  16. Hack as a noun:

    A kick on the shins in football.

  17. Hack as a noun (slang, naval):

    confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment

  1. Hack as a noun (falconry):

    A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.

  2. Hack as a noun:

    A food-rack for cattle.

  3. Hack as a noun:

    A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.

  4. Hack as a noun:

    A grating in a mill race.

  1. Hack as a verb:

    To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.

  2. Hack as a verb (falconry):

    To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.

  1. Hack as a noun:

    A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.

  2. Hack as a noun:

    A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.

    Examples:

    "I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel."

  3. Hack as a noun (pejorative):

    Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.

  4. Hack as a noun (slang):

    A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.

  5. Hack as a noun (now, chiefly, North America, colloquial):

    A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.

  6. Hack as a noun:

    A hearse.

  7. Hack as a noun (pejorative, authorship):

    An untalented writer.

    Examples:

    "Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack."

    "He's nothing but the typical hack writer."

  8. Hack as a noun (pejorative):

    One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)

  9. Hack as a noun (pejorative):

    A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.

  10. Hack as a noun (politics):

    A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)

  11. Hack as a noun (obsolete):

    A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

  12. Hack as a noun (obsolete):

    A procuress.

  1. Hack as a verb (dated):

    To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.

  2. Hack as a verb:

    To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).

  3. Hack as a verb (obsolete):

    To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Hanmer"

  4. Hack as a verb (obsolete):

    To live the life of a drudge or hack.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Goldsmith"

  5. Hack as a verb:

    To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

  6. Hack as a verb:

    To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

  1. Hack as a noun:

    A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.

  1. Hack as a verb:

    To play hackeysack.

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