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Fracking vs Fracturing - What's the difference?

fracking | fracturing |

As nouns the difference between fracking and fracturing

is that fracking is hydraulic fracturing while fracturing is the act by which something is fractured.

As an adjective fracking

is fucking.

As a verb fracturing is

present participle of lang=en.

fracking

English

Noun

(-) (wikipedia fracking)
  • (oil drilling) Hydraulic fracturing.
  • * 2010 , Andrew Chung, " Quebec between a rock and a hard place on gas from shale," Toronto Star , 25 July (retrieved 26 July 2010):
    • Still, environmentalists look to the U.S., where drilling with fracking is now a “megatrend” and where thousands of wells dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. They worry about higher greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional natural gas—because of the energy used to get the gas—and water contamination.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (slang, euphemistic, bowdlerization) Fucking.
  • * {{quote-book, 1991, James Whitehead, Joiner, page=79, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=hl1YoavrXGYC&pg=PA79, isbn=1557282048
    • , passage=He's a fracking hawk the likes of which Hopkins never imagined — he's a blue darter. }}
  • * {{quote-news, 2006, January, , Best Pentium Chipset, Maximum PC citation
    • , passage=As we said before, will someone please agree on a fracking dual videocard standard?}}
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Jose Armando Perez, Betrayed? An Unscheduled Rendezvous, page=68, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=9FFGE2IE89AC&pg=RA1-PA68
    • , passage=It was a fracking nightmare.}}

    fracturing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is fractured.
  • * 2013 , Mary Elene Wood, Life Writing and Schizophrenia (page 277)
    • In her own view, she was most likely predisposed neurophysiologically to schizophrenia in such a way that her psyche could not tolerate the fracturings that others weathered while maintaining a functioning life.