Crack-down

Definition

crack /kræk/ v ၁။ အက္သည္။ အက္ကြဲသည္။ The ice cracked as I stepped onto it. ❍ Ominous cracking noises came from the roof. ❍ You can crack this toughened glass, but you can't break it. ❍ She has cracked a bone in her arm. ❍ Her lips were dry and cracked. ၂။ ခြဲသည္။ crack a nut ❍ crack a safe (ie open it to steal from it). ❍ crack an egg open. ၃။ ~ sth (on/against sth) တိုက္မိသည္။ ေဆာင့္မိသည္။ I cracked my head on the low ceiling. ၄။ (no passive) ဒိုင္းခနဲ၊ ျဖန္းခနဲ၊ ေျဖာက္ခနဲ စသည္ ျမည္သည္။ The hunter's rifle cracked and the deer fell dead. ❍ crack a whip/ one's knuckles. ၅။ ဆို႔နင့္အက္ကြဲသံႏွင့္ ေျပာသည္။ In a voice cracking with emotion, he told us of his son's death. ၆။ (က) ေတာင့္မခံႏိုင္။ Sooner or later he'll crack under questioning. ❍ The old institutions are cracking. (ခ) = CRACK UP ၇။ ( infml ) (လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္၊ စကားထာ၊ စကားဝွက္ စသည္ကို) ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ His new computer game was a tricky one, but we finally cracked it. ❍ crack the enemy's code ❍ crack a smuggling ring ❍ The firm has cracked the private car market (ie discovered how to obtain a large share of it). ၈။ ( infml ) (အရက္ပုလင္း)ေဖာက္ေသာက္သည္။ ၉။ ( infml ) (ျပက္လံုး)ထုတ္သည္။ (ဟာသ)လုပ္သည္။ chatting and cracking jokes. n ၁။ [C] ~ (in sth) (က) အက္ေၾကာင္း။ အက္ရာ။ dangerous cracks in the ice ❍ a china cup covered in small/ fine cracks ❍ Cracks were beginning to develop/ appear in the walls of the house. ❍ ( fig ) The cracks (ie faults) in the Government's economic policy are beginning to show. (ခ) ဟေၾကာင္း။ ဟေနေသာေနရာ။ ပပ္ ၾကားအက္။ She peeped through a crack in the curtains. ❍ Open the door a crack (ie open it very slightly). ၂။ [C] ဒိုင္းခနဲ၊ ဝုန္းခနဲ၊ ျဖန္းခနဲ စသည္ ျမည္သံမ်ဳိး။ the crack of a pistol shot ❍ a loud crack of thunder. ၃။ [C] ~ (on sth) (ခြပ္ခနဲ၊ ဒုတ္ခနဲ ျမည္သြားေအာင္) ထိုးျခင္း၊ ႐ိုက္ျခင္း။ give sb/ get a crack on the head. ၄။ [C] ~ (about sth) ( infml ) ျပက္လံုး။ အရႊန္း။ She made a rather mean crack about his fatness. ၅။ [C] ~ at sth/ doing sth ( infml ) ႀကိဳးစားအားထုတ္ျခင္း။ She hopes to have a crack at the world record soon. ❍ Let's have a/ another crack at solving this puzzle. ၆။ [U] ကိုကင္းတစ္မ်ဳိး။ Crack is now widely available in Britain. ❍ a crack addict. adj အထူးတလည္ ေတာ္ေသာ၊ ကြၽမ္းက်င္ေသာ။ a crack regiment ❍ He's a crack shot (ie an expert at shooting). ❏ at the crack of dawn [ IDM ] ( infml ) အ႐ုဏ္တက္။ get up at the crack of dawn. ❏ crack- brained adj ( infml ) သြပ္ေခ်ာင္ေခ်ာင္။ a crack-brained idea/ scheme. ❏ crack down (on sb/ sth) [ PHRV ] ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ ႏိွမ္နင္းသည္။ ၿဖိဳခြင္းသည္။ Police are cracking down on drug dealers. See also CRACK-DOWN ❏ crack-down n ~ (on sb/ sth) ထိေရာက္စြာ ႏိွမ္နင္းျခင္း။ ၿဖိဳခြင္းျခင္း။ a government crack-down on student demonstrations. ❏ cracked /krækt/ adj ၁။ အက္ေသာ။ a cracked and dirty mug ❍ cracked walls ❍ He suffered broken ribs and a cracked skull. ❍ Her lips were dry and cracked. ၂။ ( infml ) က်ပ္မျပည့္ေသာ။ ဦးေႏွာက္ေခ်ာင္ေသာ။ I think he's a bit cracked, don't you? ❏ cracking /'krækÇŋ/ n [U] အက္ေၾကာင္း။ အက္ရာ။ a lot of discoloration and cracking. adj ( Brit infml ) အေကာင္းဆံုး။ cracking bargains ❍ She's in cracking form at the moment. ❍ We set off at a cracking pace (ie very quickly). adv ( infml ) (ေလးနက္ေအာင္ good ေရွ႕၌ တြဲသံုးသည္။ ) သိပ္၊ အလြန္၊ အရမ္း (ေကာင္းသည္)။ a cracking good (ie extremely good) dinner. ❏ crack on (with sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေကာင္းေကာင္း ဆက္လုပ္သည္။ If we keep cracking on (with the painting), we'll be finished by tea-time. ❏ crack up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ႐ူးသည္။ ေၾကာင္သည္။ ေပါက္သည္။ You'll crack up if you carry on working so hard. ❏ get cracking /weaving [ IDM ]( infml espBrit ) ျမန္ျမန္ထက္ထက္ လုပ္သည္။ There's a lot to be done, so let's get cracking. ❏ not all/ everything it's/ one's/ they're cracked up to be [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေျပာၾကသေလာက္လည္း မဟုတ္ ပါဘူး။ He's not nearly such a good writer as he's cracked up to be.

Examples

1. I dropped a plate and cracked it.
2. She cracked several ribs and broke her arm skiing.
3. The ice was starting to crack at the edges.
4. The egg cracked open and a little chick struggled out.
5. They used a hammer to crack open the coconuts.
6. Thunder cracked overhead.
7. Dad fell and cracked his head against the door.
8. She cracked him over the head with a saucepan.
9. Detectives believe they are near to cracking the case.
10. It was a code that seemed impossible to crack.
11. [crack it] : I’ve been trying all morning to get this to work
12. and I’ve finally cracked it.
13. Heston never cracked
14. even when they tortured him.
15. [crack under the pressure/strain] : She won the game because her opponent cracked under the pressure.
16. Residents are working together to crack crime on the estate.
17. My mate advised me to watch a new American movie
18. but when I watched
19. it wasn't all it's cracked up to be.