Franking vs Fracking - What's the difference?
franking | fracking |
Device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced.
(oil drilling) Hydraulic fracturing.
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(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
, 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.}}
As nouns the difference between franking and fracking
is that franking is device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced while fracking is (oil drilling) hydraulic fracturing.As a verb franking
is .As an adjective fracking is
(slang|euphemistic|bowdlerization) fucking.franking
English
(wikipedia franking)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(head)fracking
English
Noun
(-) (wikipedia fracking)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.
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