crackle

Plural: crackles

Noun

• the sharp sound of snapping noises
• glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
• A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
• A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
• 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.
• Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”).

Verb

• make a crackling sound
  • "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl"
• make a crushing noise
• to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks
  • "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
• To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.
• Misspelling of cackle.
• -LED, -LING, -ES to make a succession of snapping sounds

Adjective Satellite

• having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware
  • "a crackle glaze"

Examples

• "I heard a crackle from the frying pan as I was frying bacon."
• "There was an annoying crackle during the phone call, due to poor connection."

Synonyms

crackle china, crackleware, crackling, crepitate, crepitation, crunch, scranch, scraunch

Anagrams of crackle