Crackle
['kræk(ə)l] or ['krækl]
Definition
(noun.) glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface.
(noun.) the sharp sound of snapping noises.
(verb.) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; 'The blazing sun crackled the desert sand'.
(adj.) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; 'a crackle glaze' .
Checker: Mario--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
(n.) The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
(n.) A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.
(n.) 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.
Checker: Max
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Decrepitate, crepitate, snap.
Inputed by Eleanor
Definition
v.i. to give out slight but frequent cracks.—n. the giving out of slight cracks.—ns. Crack′lin a kind of china-ware purposely cracked in the kiln as an ornament; Crack′ling the rind of roast pork: (pl.) skinny parts of suet without tallow: three stripes of velvet worn on the sleeves of students at St John's College Cambridge.—adj. Crack′ly brittle.—n. Crack′nel a light brittle biscuit: (pl.) pieces of fat pork fried crisp.
Checker: Marsha
Examples
- When they were silent again, nothing stirred in the stillness but the bubble and the crackle of the flames. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She listened, watching, hoping no one would hear the starched linen crackle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He heard the sheepskin crackle as he rested his weight on his feet. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The sheepskin was fresh dried and not tanned and as Robert Jordan rested his stocking feet on it he could feel it crackle like parchment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Yet, in spite of his shabby and even absurd appearance, his voice had a sharp crackle, and his manner a quick intensity which commanded attention. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I heard nothing but the quickening crackle of the flames, and the sharp snap of the glass in the skylight above. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I abode until roof and rafters crackled and crashed around me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Our feet creaked and crackled over the bare planking, and my outstretched hand touched a wall from which the paper was hanging in ribbons. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I did so, and driven by the draught a coil of gray smoke swirled down the corridor, while the dry straw crackled and flamed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The fire crackled and blazed pleasantly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The dull crackling noise noticed in the ear when one swallows is due to the entrance and exit of air in the tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For three days the snow fell, ice stopped the current of the rivers, and the birds flew out from crackling branches of the frost-whitened trees. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was the precise, crackling, curling roll of automatic rifle fire. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The remainders, being cut into lengths and split open, were tossed into the pan, which began hissing and crackling over the fire. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it, said he in a crackling voice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The paint-stained dress is a dress of hers; and the fire heard crackling in her room at four in the morning was a fire lit to destroy it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Editor: Warren