The phrase "a crack around" is not standard in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could potentially be used in informal contexts to describe a physical crack or gap in an object or surface, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "There was a crack around the edge of the old wooden table."
Alternatives: "a gap around" or "a fissure around".
It certainly would have livened up the debate if jockey Crowley had given Greg a crack around the gullet such as a horse can receive.
Since a crack around the belt edge is subjected mainly to interlaminar shear deformation, a Mode III fatigue test method was developed.
"One night they get a crack around the head from their mum because she's pissed; the next they get a cuddle; they just never know where they are," says Gareth Jones, one of the country's senior Youth Offending Team managers – who are the first members of the justice system to come into contact with such children when they break the law.
But after a few days on Market Street — stepping around human waste, looking down to avoid angry stares and rambling diatribes, crisscrossing streets to steer clear of men bold enough to pass around a crack pipe in public — I realize the dividing line isn't nearly as clear as I'd like it to be.
The energy release rate for the plane strain crack is then used to calculate the energy release for a crack channeling around the indenter forming the circumferential crack.
Divers have discovered that a crack running around a third of the circumference at the point where the fuselage joins the wings has widened in the past two years.
Saïd, 26, landed awkwardly after his vault, snapping his leg enough to make the lower half of his shin hang at an unnatural angle and allegedly producing a crack heard around the stadium.
As tributes poured in from friends and foes, supporters of rival clubs breathed a sigh of relief – that there might just be a small crack around the door that has so often been slammed in their faces.
The singular stress problem of a peripheral edge crack around a spherical cavity in a long circular cylinder under tension is investigated.
Compared to beam B1, the reduction in shear capacity was caused by the early formation of a diagonal crack around the chords of the opening due to the stress concentration and the reduced ability of the web area to resist high shear.
The method is used to simulate an alternating magnetic field around a crack on a paramagnetic metal specimen and to estimate the shape and volume of the crack.
