Commentary:
NOTE: Implies a whole entity being broken, split into parts Includes: CRACK OPEN
Examples:
The glass cracked when it was heated.
She cracked her head open on the table.
The tongue on the inner shell has cracked in half on one and is all but cracked on the other.
Mappings:
VerbNet: break-45.1
FrameNet: Cause_harm
PropBank: crack.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 6, 7, 11
Examples:
Don't crack your knuckles!
His voice rose in such a high register that it cracked on the question mark.
The thunders cracked, the lightening was flashing, and the rain was pouring.
Mappings:
VerbNet: sound_emission-43.2
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: crack.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 3
Commentary: Includes: CRACK UP
Examples:
They were things that surprised, delighted him, cracked him up.
It was the charisma comment that cracked him up.
She didn't even crack a smile!
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: crack.03
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
crack_up
Commentary: Includes: CRACK UP
Examples:
He cracked up after his son died and had to take a couple of months off work.
She recently said a cyberstalker had affected her. Others think she just cracked up at some point.
She just cracked under the strain of her husband's disappearance.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: crack.04
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 9
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
crack_up 1
Examples:
Mappings:
VerbNet: bump-18.4-1,spank-18.3
FrameNet: Cause_harm
PropBank: crack.05
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4
Examples:
Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5
Commentary: Includes: CRACK OPEN
Examples:
As I stated in the original email, I cracked open the code and hacked together some stuff.
Criminologists have not yet cracked the case.
So our economists finally have cracked the puzzle.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
crack_down 1
Commentary: Is: CRACK DOWN
Examples:
Authorities in cracked down on press freedom in September.
They've actually cracked down on remittances coming from this group.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
crack_down 1
Commentary: Includes: CRACK OPEN
NOTE: compare carefully to sense 1; this sense does not imply the breaking of a whole into parts
Examples:
Abbot again cracked open the door just enough for an officer to force it open.
I got out my daughter's tennis racquet, cracked open the window, and clocked the hornet.
The piston has moved a distance sufficient to keep the valve cracked open the desired amount.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
Commentary: Includes: CRACK OPEN
NOTE: compare carefully to sense 1; this sense does not imply the breaking of a whole into parts
Examples:
I first cracked open The Beatles Anthology, a hot-selling new coffee-table book
I didn't know we were going to do one until I cracked open the script.
I see you cracked open the grape kool-aid but it doesn't seem to have had the desired impact.
Congratulations to the Overmundo team, we hope you have cracked open the champagne!
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
Commentary:
NOTE: please tag ONLY and ALL of these idioms with this sense GET CRACKING ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE
Examples:
GET CRACKING
No excuses, get cracking and learn Dutch!
CRACKED UP TO BE
Is customer satisfaction all its cracked up to be?
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: crack.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10
Examples:
A feed doped with some level of metal naphthenate is cracked on the catalyst
over a number of oxidation reduction cycles.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 12, 13