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Crack vs. Bump — What's the Difference?

Crack vs. Bump — What's the Difference?

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Crack

To break without complete separation of parts
The mirror cracked.

Bump

To strike or collide with
Bumped the chair with a knee.

Crack

To break or snap apart
The branch cracked off and fell.

Bump

To cause to knock against an obstacle
Bumped a knee against the chair.

Crack

To make a sharp snapping sound
His knees cracked as he sat down.
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Bump

To knock to a new position; shift
Bumped the crate out of the way.

Crack

To break down; fail
The defendant's composure finally began to crack.

Bump

To shake up and down; jolt
Bumped the child on her knee.
Was bumped about on a rough flight.

Crack

To have a mental or physical breakdown
Cracked under the pressure.

Bump

To displace from a position within a group or organization.

Crack

To change sharply in pitch or timbre, as from hoarseness or emotion. Used of the voice.

Bump

To deprive (a passenger) of reserved travel accommodations because of overbooking.

Crack

To move or go rapidly
Was cracking along at 70 miles an hour.

Bump

To raise; boost
Bump up the price of gasoline.

Crack

(Chemistry) To break into simpler molecules, often by means of heat or a catalyst.

Bump

(Sports) To pass (a volleyball) by redirecting it with the forearms.

Crack

To cause to break without complete separation of parts
The pebble cracked the car's windshield.

Bump

To hit or knock against something
Boxes bumping against one another in a truck.

Crack

To cause to break with a sharp snapping sound
Crack nuts.

Bump

To proceed with jerks and jolts
Bumped along slowly over the rocky terrain.

Crack

To crush (corn or wheat, for example) into small pieces.

Bump

(Sports) To bump a volleyball.

Crack

To strike, especially with a sharp sound
Cracked the intruder over the head with a lamp.

Bump

A blow, collision, or jolt.

Crack

To cause to come into forceful contact with something, especially with a sharp sound
Fell and cracked his head against the floor.

Bump

The sound of something bumping
Heard a loud bump in the dark.

Crack

To open to a slight extent
Crack a window to let in some air.

Bump

A raised or rounded spot; a bulge.

Crack

To break open or into
Crack a safe.

Bump

A slight swelling or lump.

Crack

To open up for use or consumption
Crack a book.
Cracked a beer.

Bump

(Informal) See baby bump.

Crack

To break through (an obstacle) in order to win acceptance or acknowledgment
Finally cracked the "men-only" rule at the club.

Bump

A rise or increase, as in prices or enrollment.

Crack

To discover the solution to, especially after considerable effort
Crack a code.

Bump

A forward thrust of the pelvis, as in a burlesque striptease.

Crack

To cause (the voice) to crack.

Bump

(Sports) A pass in volleyball made by redirecting the ball with the inside of the forearms, especially when extended and held together.

Crack

(Informal) To tell (a joke), especially on impulse or in an effective manner.

Bump

A small dose of an illegal drug, especially cocaine inhaled in powdered form.

Crack

To cause to have a mental or physical breakdown.

Bump

A shot of hard liquor, sometimes accompanied by a beer chaser.

Crack

To impair or destroy
Their rude remarks cracked his equanimity.

Bump

A light blow or jolting collision.

Crack

To reduce (petroleum) to simpler compounds by cracking.

Bump

The sound of such a collision.

Crack

A partial split or break; a fissure
Cracks in the basement wall.

Bump

A protuberance on a level surface.

Crack

A slight narrow space
The window was open a crack.

Bump

A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.

Crack

(Informal) The fissure between the buttocks.

Bump

(obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also the faculty itself
The bump of veneration; the bump of acquisitiveness

Crack

A defect or flaw
Cracks in the argument.
A crack in his composure.

Bump

(rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.

Crack

A sharp snapping sound, such as the report of a firearm.

Bump

The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.

Crack

A sharp resounding blow
Gave him a crack on the head.

Bump

(Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

Crack

A breaking, harshly dissonant vocal tone or sound, as in hoarseness.

Bump

A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
US presidential nominees get a post-convention bump in survey ratings.

Crack

An attempt or try
Gave him a crack at the job.
Took a crack at photography.

Bump

(slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.

Crack

A witty or sarcastic remark.

Bump

(preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.

Crack

A moment; an instant
At the crack of dawn.

Bump

In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.

Crack

(Irish) Fun had when socializing; social amusement.

Bump

(uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.

Crack

(Slang) Crack cocaine.

Bump

A training match for a fighting dog.

Crack

Excelling in skill or achievement; first-rate
A crack shot.
A crack tennis player.

Bump

The jaw of either of the middle pockets.

Crack

(intransitive) To form cracks.
It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.

Bump

Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.

Crack

(intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.

Bump

(industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.

Crack

(intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.

Bump

The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.

Crack

(intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.

Bump

To knock against or run into with a jolt.

Crack

(intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.

Bump

To move up or down by a step; displace.
I bumped the font size up to make my document easier to read.

Crack

To change rapidly in register.
His voice cracked with emotion.

Bump

(Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

Crack

To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.

Bump

To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.

Crack

(intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
"I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.

Bump

(transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.

Crack

To realize that one is transgender.
She cracked at age 22 and came out to her friends and family over the next few months.

Bump

(transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).

Crack

(transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
The ball cracked the window.

Bump

(transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.

Crack

(transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.

Bump

To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.

Crack

(transitive) To strike forcefully.
She cracked him over the head with her handbag.

Bump

To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.

Crack

(transitive) To open slightly.
Could you please crack the window?

Bump

To assassinate; to bump off.

Crack

To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
They managed to crack him on the third day.

Bump

To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.

Crack

To solve a difficult problem.
I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.

Bump

To anger, irritate.

Crack

(transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
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.

Bump

Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.

Crack

(transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
To crack a whip

Bump

(internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

Crack

(transitive) To tell (a joke).
The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.

Bump

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

Crack

To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.

Bump

To come in violent contact with something; to thump.

Crack

To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.

Bump

To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.
As a bittern bumps within a reed.

Crack

To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
I'd love to crack open a beer.
Let's crack a tube and watch the game.

Bump

A thump; a heavy blow.

Crack

(obsolete) To brag; to boast.

Bump

A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.
It had upon its browA bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.

Crack

To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

Bump

One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness."

Crack

(colloquial) To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
An underground band that never cracked the Hot 100

Bump

The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.

Crack

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
A large crack had formed in the roadway.

Bump

The noise made by the bittern.

Crack

A narrow opening.
We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.
Open the door a crack.

Bump

A lump on the body caused by a blow

Crack

A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.

Bump

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form

Crack

(slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
Crack head

Bump

An impact (as from a collision);
The bump threw him off the bicycle

Crack

Something good-tasting or habit-forming.

Bump

Knock against with force or violence;
My car bumped into the tree

Crack

(onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.

Bump

Come upon, as if by accident; meet with;
We find this idea in Plato
I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here
She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day

Crack

(onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
The crack of the bat hitting the ball.

Bump

Dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward;
Bump and grind

Crack

A sharp, resounding blow.

Bump

Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank;
She was demoted because she always speaks up
He was broken down to Sargeant

Crack

(informal) An attempt at something.
I'd like to take a crack at that game.

Bump

Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied;
The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space

Crack

Vagina.

Crack

(informal) The space between the buttocks.
Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.

Crack

Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
The party was great crack.

Crack

Business; events; news.
What's the crack?
What's this crack about a possible merger?

Crack

(computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?

Crack

An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.A nuclear explosion in shallow water; the crack is clearly visible on the water's surface.

Crack

A meaningful chat.

Crack

(Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.

Crack

The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

Crack

(archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
He has a crack.

Crack

(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.

Crack

(obsolete) A boast; boasting.

Crack

(obsolete) Breach of chastity.

Crack

(obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.

Crack

A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
I'll be with you in a crack.

Crack

(obsolete) One who excels; the best.

Crack

Highly trained and competent.
Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.

Crack

Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
She's a crack shot with that rifle.

Crack

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

Crack

To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
O, madam, my old heart is cracked.
He thought none poets till their brains were cracked.

Crack

To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.

Crack

To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.

Crack

To cry up; to extol; - followed by up.

Crack

To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
By misfortune it cracked in the coling.
The mirror cracked from side to side.

Crack

To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
The credit . . . of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.

Crack

To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.

Crack

To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; - with of.
Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack.

Crack

A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.

Crack

Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

Crack

A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
Will the stretch out to the crack of doom?

Crack

The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
Though now our voicesHave got the mannish crack.

Crack

Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.

Crack

A crazy or crack-brained person.
I . . . can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.

Crack

A boast; boasting.

Crack

Breach of chastity.

Crack

A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
Val. 'T is a noble child. Vir. A crack, madam.

Crack

A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.

Crack

Free conversation; friendly chat.
What is crack in English? . . . A crack is . . . a chat with a good, kindly human heart in it.

Crack

A witty remark; a wisecrack.

Crack

A chance or opportunity to do something; an attempt; as, I'll take a crack at it.

Crack

A form of cocaine, highly purified and prepared as small pellets, especially suitable for smoking; - also called rock. Used in this form it appears to be more addicting than cocaine powder.

Crack

Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of; as, a crack shot.
One of our crack speakers in the Commons.

Crack

A long narrow opening

Crack

A narrow opening;
He opened the window a crack

Crack

A long narrow depression in a surface

Crack

A sudden sharp noise;
The crack of a whip
He heard the cracking of the ice
He can hear the snap of a twig

Crack

A chance to do something;
He wanted a shot at the champion

Crack

Witty remark

Crack

A blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts;
There was a crack in the mirror

Crack

A purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted

Crack

A usually brief attempt;
He took a crack at it
I gave it a whirl

Crack

The act of cracking something

Crack

Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only;
The glass cracked when it was heated

Crack

Make a very sharp explosive sound;
His gun cracked

Crack

Make a sharp sound;
His fingers snapped

Crack

Hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise;
The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler

Crack

Pass through (a barrier);
Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county

Crack

Break partially but keep its integrity;
The glass cracked

Crack

Break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension;
The rope snapped

Crack

Suffer a nervous breakdown

Crack

Tell spontaneously;
Crack a joke

Crack

Cause to become cracked;
Heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair

Crack

Reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking

Crack

Break into simpler molecules by means of heat;
The petroleum cracked

Crack

Of the highest quality;
An ace reporter
A crack shot
A first-rate golfer
A super party
Played top-notch tennis
An athlete in tiptop condition
She is absolutely tops

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