cracking : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cracking	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for cracking
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cracking adj very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" Synonym(s): bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing n a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" Synonym(s): crack, cracking, snap the act of cracking something Synonym(s): fracture, crack, cracking the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crack \Crack\ (kr[acr]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cracked} (kr[acr]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cracking}.] [OE. cracken, craken, to crack, break, boast, AS. cracian, cearcian, to crack; akin to D. kraken, G. krachen; cf. Skr. garj to rattle, or perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crake}, {Cracknel}, {Creak}.] 1. To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts. 2. 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. --Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. --Roscommon. 3. To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip. 4. To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke. --B. Jonson. 5. To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low] {To crack a bottle}, to open the bottle and drink its contents. {To crack a crib}, to commit burglary. [Slang] {To crack on}, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
cracking n. [very common] The act of breaking into a computer system; what a {cracker} does. Contrary to widespread myth, this does not usually involve some mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems. Accordingly, most crackers are only mediocre hackers.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
cracking {cracker}