Racking vs Fracking - What's the difference?
racking | fracking |
A method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up.
spun yarn used in racking ropes
The process of clarifying, and thereby deterring further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
(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 racking and fracking
is that racking is a method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up while fracking is (oil drilling) hydraulic fracturing.As a verb racking
is .As an adjective fracking is
(slang|euphemistic|bowdlerization) fucking.racking
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(wikipedia racking)fracking
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(-) (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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