Hit vs Crack - What's the difference?

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Hit is a related term of crack.

As nouns the difference between hit and crack

is that hit is while crack is (senseid)a thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

As a verb crack is

(senseid)to form cracks.

As an adjective crack is

highly trained and competent.

hit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

To strike.

#(lb) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

#*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

#*1922-1927 , (Frank Harris), (My Life and Loves)

#*:He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.

#*:BELLO: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)

#*:BLOOM: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell

#*1934 , , The Slugger's Game

#*:I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.

#(lb) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

#*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

#*:If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?

#*:a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.

#*1882 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance

#*:Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.

# To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

# To attack, especially amphibiously.

To briefly visit.

To encounter.

(lb) To attain, to achieve.

# To reach or achieve.

#*2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal:

#*:And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.

#(lb) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

#*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

#*:Millions miss for one that hits .

#To guess; to light upon or discover.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Thou hast hit it.

(lb) To affect negatively.

To make a play.

# In blackjack, to deal a card to.

# To come up to bat.

#(lb) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

To use; to connect to.

To have sex with.

To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana

Antonyms

* (manage to touch in the right place) miss

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the verb "hit") * don't let the door hit you on the way out * flood-hit (adjective ) * hit a home run * hit a nerve * hit a six * hit a snag * hit above one's weight * hit and run * hit at * hit back * hit below one's weight * hit for six * hit home * hit it an quit it * hit it big * hit it off * hitman * hit on * hit one out of the ballpark * hit one's stride * hit out * hit paydirt * hit the ball twice * hit the books * hit the bottle * hit the bricks * hit the ceiling * hit the deck * hit the dirt * hit the gas * hit the ground running * hit the hay * hit the head * hit the headlines * hit the jackpot * hit the nail on the head * hit the net * hit the pan * hit the pavement * hit the road * hit rock bottom * hit the rock * hit the rocks * hit the roof * hit the sack * hit the silk * hit the skids * hit the spot * hit up * hit upon * hit wicket * hittable * hitter * hitting * not know what hit one * pinch-hit

Noun

(en noun)

A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

* Dryden

So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, / And, at each hit , with wonder seems amazed.

The hit was very slight.

A success, especially in the entertainment industry.

The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

* Alexander Pope

What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit .

* {{quote-news

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An attack on a location, person or people.

# In the game of , a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.

(computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine

(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.

An approximately correct answer in a test set.

(baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.

(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

Where am I going to get my next hit ?

A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

a happy hit

A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Antonyms

* (a punch) miss * (success) flop, turkey

Derived terms

* banjo hit * base hit * cult hit * direct hit * hit counter * hit list * hit parade * hit point * hit squad * hit test * infield hit * king hit * nervous hit * no hit * one-hit wonder * pinch hit * smash hit * straight hit * take a hit

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . More at (l). Note 'it.

Pronoun

(dialectal) .

* 1922 , Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:

But how hit was to come about didn't appear.

* 1998 , Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:

Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit' slide down the hill ' hits own way.

Derived terms

* (l) * (l)

Anagrams

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crack

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) crakken, craken, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(senseid)To form cracks.

It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack .

To break apart under pressure.

When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked .

To become debilitated by psychological pressure.

Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.

To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.

When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked .

To make a cracking sound.

The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.

(of a voice) To change rapidly in register.

His voice cracked with emotion.

(of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.

His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.

To make a sharply humorous comment.

"I would too, with a face like that," she cracked .

To make a crack or cracks in.

The ball cracked the window.

To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.

You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.

To strike forcefully.

She cracked him over the head with her handbag.

To open slightly.

Could you please crack the window?

To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative )

They managed to crack him on the third day.

To solve a difficult problem.

I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.

To overcome a security system or a 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.

To cause to make a sharp sound.

to crack a whip

* 2001 , Doug McGuinn, The Apple Indians

Hershell cracked his knuckles, a nervous habit that drove Inez crazy

To tell (a joke).

The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.

(transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.

Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.

(computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.

That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.

(informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

I'd love to crack open a beer .

(obsolete) To brag, boast.

*, II.4.1.v:

Cardan cracks that he can cure all diseases with water alone, as Hippocrates of old did most infirmities with one medicine.

* Shakespeare

Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack .

(archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.

* Dryden

The creditof exchequers cracks , when little comes in and much goes out.

Derived terms

* bumcrack * crack a crib * crack a fat * crack baby * crack down * cracked * cracker * crack house * crack kills * crack of dawn * crack on * crack seed * crack up * crack whore * fall between the cracks * difficult nut to crack * hard nut to crack * tough nut to crack * what's the crack * wisecrack

Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

A large crack had formed in the roadway.

A narrow opening.

We managed to squeeze through a crack in the rock wall.

Open the door a crack .

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=January 25 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Blackpool 2 - 3 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Dimitar Berbatov found the first cracks in the home side's resilience when he pulled one back from close range and Hernandez himself drew the visitors level with a composed finish three minutes later as Bloomfield Road's earlier jubilation turned to despair. }}

A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

I didn't appreciate that crack about my hairstyle.

A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.

* (rfdate) :

I wouldn't use it, if I was going to use it I can afford real cocaine. Crack is wack.

(onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.

The crack of the falling branch could be heard for miles.

(onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.

The crack of the bat hitting the ball.

* {{quote-news

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(informal) An attempt at something.

I'd like to take a crack at that game.

(vulgar, slang) vagina.

I'm so horny even the crack of dawn isn't safe!

(vulgar) The space between the buttocks.

Pull up your pants! Your crack is showing.

(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humourous storytelling; good company.

* 2001 , William F. Gray, The Villain , iUniverse, p. 214:

Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack .

* 2004 , Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect , Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)

"his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"

* 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:

By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

The crack was good.

That was good crack .

He/she is quare good crack .

The party was great crack .

(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business/events/news

What's the crack ?

(computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.

Has anyone got a crack for DocumentWriter 3.0?

(Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.

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

The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

* Shakespeare

Though now our voices / Have got the mannish crack .

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

He has a crack .

(archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.

* Addison

I can not get the Parliament to listen to me, who look upon me as a crack and a projector.

(obsolete) A boast; boasting.

* Burton

crack and brags

* Shakespeare

vainglorious cracks

(obsolete) Breach of chastity.

(Shakespeare)

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

* Shakespeare

- 'Tis a noble child.
- A crack , madam.

(slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.

I'll be with you in a crack .

Usage notes

* In the last few decades the word has been adopted into Gaelic; as there is no "k" in the Irish language the spelling (craic) has been devised.

Synonyms

* bum crack (UK), arse crack (UK), ass crack (US) * (cocaine that is heat-altered at the moment of inhalation) crack cocaine

Etymology 2

1793 slang, of origin

Adjective

(-)

Highly trained and competent.

Even a crack team of investigators would have trouble solving this case.

Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

She's a crack shot with that rifle.

Derived terms

* crack train * crack troops