What's the difference between brag and crack?

Brag


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.
  • (v. t.) To boast of.
  • (n.) A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.
  • (n.) The thing which is boasted of.
  • (n.) A game at cards similar to bluff.
  • (v. i.) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
  • (adv.) Proudly; boastfully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You’re only going to North Korea just so you can brag about it when you return home.
  • (2) The funniest thing is when I saw some people who bragged about their trip to Pyongyang.
  • (3) O’Malley bragged about his efforts cracking down on corruption in the city police department and efforts to push for an effective civilian review board in Baltimore.
  • (4) Osborne moved to block that too, channelling his inner Occupy activist as he bragged about the way he was sticking it to the “1%”.
  • (5) RF Rapids wait 7 years and 62 minutes to regain local bragging rights Colorado Rapids ended Saturday night in third place in the West, three points behind leaders Real Salt Lake, but crucially for them, they also ended up in possession of the Rocky Mountain Cup, after coming from behind twice to tie up the game with Real Salt Lake and take the series for the first time in seven years.
  • (6) Since a tape was released of Trump bragging about grabbing women “by the pussy”, nine women have come forward with accusations that he groped them without consent.
  • (7) And I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women.
  • (8) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
  • (9) However, with this one desperate win the Nets maintain city-wide bragging rights over the Knicks who have failed to put together a single victory in the last seven days.
  • (10) When Modi brags about his 56-inch chest , his machismo indicates India’s arrival in world affairs.
  • (11) The FBI believes Ulbricht, who graduated from the University of Texas in 2006, may have obliquely bragged about his alleged role as “Dread Pirate Roberts” on LinkedIn, where he had referred to spending the last few years “creating an economic simulation”.
  • (12) And I’m in control of doing the things that he wants me to do in the campaign.” When Trump, who has often bragged about being “a counter-puncher”, went after the Khans, no one inside the camp was quick enough to spot the controversy.
  • (13) It’s to be expected then, that what it actually took for the country to take Harth and other women’s stories of sexual assault seriously was not their own complaints, or a female reporter airing them: it was Trump himself bragging about sexual assault on video.
  • (14) But the curtain raiser to the games retained the bragging rights in terms of peak audience – the most people tuned in at any one time – with a five-minute high of 26.9 million against the closing event's 26.3 million at 9.35pm.
  • (15) To satisfy the competitive spirit, there will be a chance for them to enter an arena-style activity that lets them spar against one another for honour and bragging rights..." On that subject, Destiny players will, of course, get access to Bungie.net, the studio's community website.
  • (16) The son of longtime Rhode Island Republican senator John Chafee, the presidential candidate’s biography brags that he “attended Montana State University horse shoeing school in Bozeman and worked as a farrier at harness racing tracks for seven years”.
  • (17) We identified five cistrons corresponding to these bra genes by complementation analysis with various derivatives of pKTH24, confirming that the braD, braE, braF, and braG genes are required for the LIV-I transport system.
  • (18) Pride and bragging rights are at stake in tonight's match between these fierce South American rivals, with both sides deadlocked on 33 wins apiece in 89 encounters.
  • (19) Starting in early 2011 and using the alias Sabu, Monsegur led an Anonymous splinter group called Lulz Security, or LulzSec , which hacked computer systems of Fox television, Nintendo, PayPal and other businesses, stole private information and then bragged about it online.
  • (20) Having dropped out of medical school to focus on real estate, this is his way of establishing bragging rights.

Crack


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
  • (v. t.) To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
  • (v. t.) To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
  • (v. t.) To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.
  • (v. i.) To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts.
  • (v. i.) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
  • (v. i.) To utter a loud or sharp, sudden sound.
  • (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of.
  • (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass.
  • (n.) Rupture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense.
  • (n.) A sharp, sudden sound or report; the sound of anything suddenly burst or broken; as, the crack of a falling house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip.
  • (n.) The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
  • (n.) Mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity; as, he has a crack.
  • (n.) A crazy or crack-brained person.
  • (n.) A boast; boasting.
  • (n.) Breach of chastity.
  • (n.) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
  • (n.) A brief time; an instant; as, to be with one in a crack.
  • (n.) Free conversation; friendly chat.
  • (a.) Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
  • (2) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
  • (3) However, we have observed cracks on the Dacron fibers, fiber fracture, fiber protrusion, and poor attachment to the diaphragm, which can cause potentially disastrous complications.
  • (4) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
  • (5) It is found that, in contrast to most metallic materials yet in keeping with many ceramics, there are no distinct fracture morphologies in pyro-carbons which are characteristic of a specific mode of loading; fracture surfaces appear to be identical for both catastrophic and subcritical crack growth under either sustained or cyclic loading.
  • (6) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
  • (7) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
  • (8) On second impacts, the GSI rose considerably because the shell and liner of the DH-151 cracked and the suspension of the "141" stretched during the first blow.
  • (9) 9.18pm: The Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich has a crack, and he's taking no prisoners: "We've heard Mr Toyoda say that Toyota grew to fast.
  • (10) Here come the Dodgers for another crack at it in the second.
  • (11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
  • (12) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
  • (13) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
  • (14) According to the NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, whose voice almost cracked with emotion as he addressed the media on Saturday evening , the “digital warning poster” featuring a picture of Brinsley and his whereabouts arrived at the data centre at 2.47pm.
  • (15) As subcritical crack velocities under cyclic loading were found to be many orders of magnitude faster than those measured under equivalent monotonic loads and to occur at typically 45% lower stress-intensity levels, cyclic fatigue in pyrolytic carbon-coated graphite is reasoned to be a vital consideration in the design and life-prediction procedures of prosthetic devices manufactured from this material.
  • (16) It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it,” Xinhua reported after Tuesday’s launch.
  • (17) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.
  • (18) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
  • (19) "I urge both the monks and the lay Tibetans of the area not to do anything that might be used as a pretext by the local authorities to massively crack down on them.
  • (20) Of 26 patients treated to date, 16 have been crack cocaine users.