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单词 frack
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frack1

verbfrakfræk
[with object]
  • 1Inject liquid into (a subterranean rock formation, borehole, etc.) at high pressure so as to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas.

    millions of gallons of water are needed to successfully frack a single well
    a gas company wants to frack his land and the land around it
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We've drilled and cased our first Utica Shale well and plan on fracking it in about a month.
    • A less-publicized part of the new regulation is what some experts are most interested in: the mandatory disclosure of the amount of water needed to frack each well.
    • Microseismic technology involves lowering detectors into a listening well near a fracked well.
    • Hundreds of new wells are being drilled and fracked every year.
    • The advent of horizontal drilling and horizontal hydraulic fracturing technology has allowed hundreds of thousands of acres of land to be leased and eventually fracked.
    • People on fracked land have toxic water, their soil is toxic, the air is toxic.
    • From exploratory drilling through completion, it takes about a thousand truck trips to frack a shale oil well.
    • Most fracked wells use 1 million to 5 million gallons of water over three to five days.
    1. 1.1 Extract (oil or gas) by injecting liquid into a subterranean rock formation, borehole, etc. at high pressure.
      the industry has begun to frack natural gas from shale deposits
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I was not aware of hazards on the consuming end of using fracked gas.
      • The group blocked the railroad crossing in Fairfield to protest the transport of fracked oil.
      • Investing in policies that encourage such changes would be much smarter than subsidizing the fertilizer industry's move toward relying on fracked gas.
      • Oil will be fracked and renewables will not be used, just as all the relatively unprofitable technologies that don't involve long chains of production from controlled sources will not be used.
      • Observers focused on whether increased output and job creation could outweigh the harm that the exploitation of extreme energy resources like fracked oil was sure to do to the environment.
      • Oil companies are gearing up to frack oil deposits in the Monterey Shale, a geological formation that lies beneath some of the state's most productive farmland.

Derivatives

  • fracker

  • noun
    • Methane can occur naturally in the area (that's what draws frackers there).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Frackers prefer fresh water because it is less corrosive.
      • The co-op sells water to frackers at roughly 84 cents a barrel, compared to 21 cents a barrel for homes.
      • Depending on state and local water laws, frackers may draw their water for free from underground aquifers or rivers, or may buy and lease supplies belonging to water districts, cities and farmers.

Origin

1950s: representing an abbreviated form of fracture.

frack2

(also frak)
exclamationfrakfræk
US informal
  • Used to express annoyance, frustration, impatience, or surprise.

    what the frack is going on!

Origin

1970s: euphemistic alteration of fuck, popularized by the US television show Battlestar Galactica.

 
 

frack1

verbfrækfrak
[with object]
  • 1Inject liquid into (a subterranean rock formation, borehole, etc.) at high pressure so as to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas.

    millions of gallons of water are needed to successfully frack a single well
    a gas company wants to frack his land and the land around it
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We've drilled and cased our first Utica Shale well and plan on fracking it in about a month.
    • Microseismic technology involves lowering detectors into a listening well near a fracked well.
    • Hundreds of new wells are being drilled and fracked every year.
    • The advent of horizontal drilling and horizontal hydraulic fracturing technology has allowed hundreds of thousands of acres of land to be leased and eventually fracked.
    • People on fracked land have toxic water, their soil is toxic, the air is toxic.
    • From exploratory drilling through completion, it takes about a thousand truck trips to frack a shale oil well.
    • A less-publicized part of the new regulation is what some experts are most interested in: the mandatory disclosure of the amount of water needed to frack each well.
    • Most fracked wells use 1 million to 5 million gallons of water over three to five days.
    1. 1.1 Extract (oil or gas) by injecting liquid into a subterranean rock formation, borehole, etc. at high pressure.
      the industry has begun to frack natural gas from shale deposits
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Oil companies are gearing up to frack oil deposits in the Monterey Shale, a geological formation that lies beneath some of the state's most productive farmland.
      • Observers focused on whether increased output and job creation could outweigh the harm that the exploitation of extreme energy resources like fracked oil was sure to do to the environment.
      • Oil will be fracked and renewables will not be used, just as all the relatively unprofitable technologies that don't involve long chains of production from controlled sources will not be used.
      • I was not aware of hazards on the consuming end of using fracked gas.
      • Investing in policies that encourage such changes would be much smarter than subsidizing the fertilizer industry's move toward relying on fracked gas.
      • The group blocked the railroad crossing in Fairfield to protest the transport of fracked oil.

Origin

1950s: representing an abbreviated form of fracture.

frack2

(also frak)
exclamationfrækfrak
US informal
  • Used to express annoyance, frustration, impatience, or surprise.

    what the frack is going on!

Origin

1970s: euphemistic alteration of fuck, popularized by the US television show Battlestar Galactica.

 
 
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