cracker
A dry, thin, crispy baked breadA dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
» He lived on crackers and water for three days.
Он пробыл три дня на одних крекерах и воде.
Значение
значений: 14A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
Cracker
кре́керkrɛ́ker, сухо́е пече́ньеsuxóje pečénʹje, суха́рьsuxárʹ
A prawn cracker.
The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
A firecracker.
A Christmas cracker.
(Британия)A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
a lobster and crab shell cracker
A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
Cracker, Crackerin
(Австралия, Ирландия, Новая Зеландия, Британия, сленг)A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
She's an absolute cracker!
The show was a cracker!
An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
(США, пренебрежительное, ethnic, оскорбительное, slur)An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
a poor White person in the southern United States
Примеры
предложений: 57He lived on crackers and water for three days.
Он пробыл три дня на одних крекерах и воде.
I've eaten all the crackers.
Я съел все крекеры.
deIch habe alle Kräcker aufgegessen.
I ate all the crackers.
Я съел все крекеры.
I thought we had eaten everything in the house, but I found another box of crackers.
Я думал, что мы съели все, что было в доме, но я нашел еще одну коробку крекеров.
deIch dachte, wir hätten alles aufgegessen, was wir im Hause hatten, aber ich habe doch noch eine Schachtel Kräcker gefunden.
We're out of cheese and crackers.
deWir haben keinen Käse und keine Kräcker mehr.
Переводы
языков: 8По значениям 1
По значениям 2
Происхождение
From Middle English craker (“a boaster”), equivalent to crack (“to break, snap, utter, makFrom Middle English craker (“a boaster”), equivalent to crack (“to break, snap, utter, make a sound”) + -er. From crack (verb), the sound made when one is broken. The hard "bread" and "biscuit" sense is first attested in 1739.
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Формы
мн. число: crackersСинонимы
синонимов: 77- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends:snappercracker bonbon
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing:firecrackerbanger
- a poor White person in the southern United States:redneck