Crossword clues for crackle
crackle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crackle \Crac"kle\ (kr[a^]k"k'l), v. i. [Dim. of crack.] To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
The unknown ice that crackles underneath them.
--Dryden.
Crackle \Crac"kle\, n.
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The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
The crackle of fireworks.
--Carlyle. (Med.) A kind of crackling sound or r[^a]le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.
--Quain.(Fine Arts) A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., crackelen, frequentative of cracken "to crack" (see crack (v.)). Related: Crackled; crackling. The noun is recorded from 1833.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fizzing, popping sound. 2 (context pottery English) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks. 3 (context physics English) The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce. vb. (context intransitive English) To make a fizzing, popping sound.
WordNet
adj. having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"
n. the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackling, crepitation]
glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface [syn: crackleware, crackle china]
v. make a crackling sound; "My Rice Crispies crackled in the bowl" [syn: crepitate]
make crunching noises; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel" [syn: crunch, scranch, scraunch]
to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
Wikipedia
Crackle (also known as Crackle: The Best of Bauhaus) is a greatest hits album by English goth-rock band Bauhaus. The album was released in 1998 by record label Beggars Banquet, during the band's Resurrection Tour. It includes remastered versions of some of their single hits and most popular songs.
Crackle is an online distributor of original web shows, Hollywood movies, and TV shows.
Founded in the early 2000s as Grouper and rebranded in 2007, Crackle is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The service is free with commercials on all supported platforms.
Crackle or crackling may refer to:
- Crackling, a form of audible noise often associated with Impulse noise
- Crackle, a finish created by crackle painting
- Crackle (company), a subsidiary of Sony
- Crackles, an abnormal lung sound heard in a subject with respiratory disease
- the Bauhaus album Crackle – The Best of Bauhaus
- one of the group of cartoon figures Snap, Crackle and Pop
- The fifth derivative of displacement, Crackle (physics)
Cracklings, or cracklins ( American) or crackling ( British) may refer to:
- Pork rind
- Gribenes, goose or chicken cracklings in Jewish cuisine
Crackle is the facetious name of a high-order derivative, and more specifically, the fifth derivative of the displacement. There is little consensus on what to call derivatives past the 4th derivative, jounce, due to there being few well-defined practical applications. The terms are, however, utilized within the fields of robotics & human motion.
Usage examples of "crackle".
In CIC, aerology, the coding room, men listened tensely to the crackling, buzzing speakers that would tell the story of the battle before it broke overhead.
Grinning in silent triumph, Alec lifted out a leather folder and heard the muffled crackle of parchment.
A fire sizzled and crackled across the long, low-raftered room of gray stone, where logs of fragrant incense-wood blazed on brazen andirons wrought in the likeness of grinning gargoyles.
His voice crackled, screeched like a powered metal-cutter, as if it had been enhanced, his mouth a black hole, the painting of a scream of rage and pain.
Sheridan got up, and Bibbs took a seat by the fire, holding out his hands to the crackling blaze, for it was cold outdoors.
We crackle with cancers, we fizz with synergisms, under the furious and birdless sky.
By now I am a crackling sorcerer of grub and booze, of philtres and sex-spells.
Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .
The sounds of the city were utterly different-no underlying thrum of motors, but plenty of human voices, a distant growling brabble, and the crackle of fire.
They shared the food Brode handed them, their conversation desultory, and then sat in silence, watching the flames crackle.
And so six times a day all traffic on the carriageway was forced to halt for twenty minutes while that beneath floated through on the tide: hoys and shallops headed upstream with loads of malt and dried haddock, bumboats and pinnaces going downstream with hogsheads of ale and sugar for the merchantmen at Tower Dock, sometimes even the yacht of the King himself on its way to the races at Greenwich, masts swaying and sails crackling.
The small fire crackling just a few feet away had not even begun to warm the cavelet, but neither of them noticed the chill.
I needed time to rest, regain my strength, and learn to tune my mind away from at least some of the continuous background static of clairvoyant images that crackled and sparked off the buildings and streets and people of Yontsdown.
There lay Dariel Grebb, huddled on the hearth before the open fire, which was burning briskly, with occasional crackles.
He turned his head and watched Doxy as she knelt in front of a crackling fire, turning slices of salt pork in an iron skillet.