Fra vs Frac - What's the difference?
fra | frac |
brother; a title of a monk or friar
* 2000 , Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
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(oil drilling) To use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing )
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(oil drilling) Relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing
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As a preposition fra
is from.As a verb frac is
(oil drilling) to use hydraulic fracturing (fraccing ).As an adjective frac is
(oil drilling) relating to or denoting hydraulic fracturing.As a noun frac is
(oil industry) frac job or frac can be fracture or frac can be fraction.fra
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), for (frate). See (friar).Noun
- (Longfellow)
- "She is in the hands of Mrs. Coulter," said Fra Pavel.
Etymology 2
Adverb
(-)frac
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
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Adjective
(head)citation, page= , passage=More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago. }}
citation, page= , passage=The drilling industry has generally spelled the word without a "K," using terms like "frac' job" or "' frac fluid." }}