The difference between Crack and Open

When used as nouns, crack means a thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material, whereas open means a sports event in which anybody can compete.

When used as verbs, crack means to form cracks, whereas open means to make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.

When used as adjectives, crack means highly trained and competent, whereas open means not closed.

check bellow for the other definitions of Crack and Open

  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. Open as an adjective (not comparable):

    Not closed; accessible; unimpeded.

    Examples:

    "Turn left after the second open door."

    "It was as if his body had gone to sleep standing up and with his eyes open."

  2. Open as an adjective:

    Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.

    Examples:

    "an open hand; an open flower; an open prospect"

  3. Open as an adjective (not comparable):

    Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.

    Examples:

    "Banks are not open on bank holidays."

  4. Open as an adjective (comparable):

    Receptive.

    Examples:

    "I am open to new ideas."

  5. Open as an adjective (not comparable):

    Public

    Examples:

    "He published an open letter to the governor on a full page of the New York Times."

  6. Open as an adjective (not comparable):

    Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.

    Examples:

    "The man is an open book."

  7. Open as an adjective (mathematics, logic, of a [[formula]]):

    Having a free variable.

  8. Open as an adjective (mathematics, topology, of a [[set]]):

    Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.

  9. Open as an adjective (graph theory, of a [[walk]]):

    Whose first and last vertices are different.

  10. Open as an adjective (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.):

    In current use; mapped to part of memory.

    Examples:

    "I couldn't save my changes because another user had the same file open."

  11. Open as an adjective (business):

    Not fulfilled.

    Examples:

    "I've got open orders for as many containers of red durum as you can get me."

  12. Open as an adjective:

    Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.

    Examples:

    "an open question"

    "to keep an offer or opportunity open"

  13. Open as an adjective (music, stringed instruments):

    Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.

  14. Open as an adjective:

    Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.

    Examples:

    "an open winter"

    "rfquotek Francis Bacon"

  15. Open as an adjective (phonetics):

    Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.

  16. Open as an adjective (phonetics):

    Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.

  17. Open as an adjective (phonetics, of a syllable):

    That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.

  18. Open as an adjective (computing):

    Made public, usable with a free licence.

  19. Open as an adjective (medicine):

    Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.

  1. Open as a verb (transitive):

    To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position.

    Examples:

    "Turn the doorknob to open the door."

  2. Open as a verb (transitive):

    To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility.

    Examples:

    "He opened a path through the undergrowth."

  3. Open as a verb (transitive):

    To bring up, broach.

    Examples:

    "I don't want to open that subject."

  4. Open as a verb (transitive):

    To enter upon, begin.

    Examples:

    "to open a discussion"

    "to open fire upon an enemy"

    "to open trade, or correspondence"

    "to open a case in court, or a meeting"

  5. Open as a verb (transitive):

    To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.

    Examples:

    "to open a closed fist"

    "to open matted cotton by separating the fibres"

    "to open a map, book, or scroll"

  6. Open as a verb (transitive):

    To make accessible to customers or clients.

    Examples:

    "I will open the shop an hour early tomorrow."

  7. Open as a verb (transitive):

    To start (a campaign).

    Examples:

    "Vermont will open elk hunting season next week."

  8. Open as a verb (intransitive):

    To become open.

    Examples:

    "The door opened all by itself."

  9. Open as a verb (intransitive):

    To begin conducting business.

    Examples:

    "The shop opens at 9:00."

  10. Open as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.

  11. Open as a verb (intransitive, poker):

    To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.

    Examples:

    "After the first two players fold, Julie opens for $5."

  12. Open as a verb (transitive, intransitive, poker):

    To reveal one's hand.

    Examples:

    "Jeff opens his hand revealing a straight flush."

  13. Open as a verb (computing, transitive, intransitive, of a file, document, etc.):

    To load into memory for viewing or editing.

  14. Open as a verb (obsolete):

    To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.

  1. Open as a noun:

    A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.

  2. Open as a noun (electronics):

    A wire that is broken midway.

    Examples:

    "The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing."

  3. Open as a noun:

    (with the) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.

    Examples:

    "I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!"

    "Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket."

  4. Open as a noun:

    (with the) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.

    Examples:

    "We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open."

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