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English
Etymology
From Middle English crakelen, equivalent to crack + -le (frequentative suffix). The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.
Pronunciation
Noun
crackle (plural crackles)
- A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
- Synonym: crepitation
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.
- (pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
- (physics) 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”)
2017, Edgar Maranan, Len Maranan-Goldstein, A Taste of Home: Pinoy Expats and Food Memories:By the look on my face I must have anticipated the joy of the crackle, apparently having come to look forward to the roast pig that appeared only at gatherings such as this. I bet I asked for another piece once I was done.
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Verb
crackle (third-person singular simple present crackles, present participle crackling, simple past and past participle crackled)
- (intransitive) To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.
- a crackling fire
1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. , London: Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, (please specify the page number):the unknown ice that crackles underneath them
1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XIV, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC, page 117:He felt the stress and strain of life, its fevers and sweats and wild insurgences—surely this was the stuff to write about! He wanted to glorify the leaders of forlorn hopes, the mad lovers, the giants that fought under stress and strain, amid terror and tragedy, making life crackle with the strength of their endeavor.
- Misspelling of cackle.
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Translations
make a prolonged cracking sound
- Bulgarian: пращя (bg) (praštja), пукам (bg) (pukam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發出爆裂聲/发出爆裂声 (fāchū bàolièshēng), 劈啪作响 (pīpā zuòxiǎng)
- Dutch: kraken (nl), knetteren (nl)
- Finnish: rasahtaa, risahtaa (single), ratista, ritistä (continuous)
- French: crépiter (fr)
- Galician: estalar (gl)
- German: knistern (de)
- Hungarian: recseg (hu)
- Icelandic: snarka
- Italian: crepitare (it)
- Maori: ngatete, pāhūhū, pākēkē
- Norman: cratchi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sprake
- Portuguese: estalar (pt), crepitar (pt)
- Russian: треща́ть (ru) (treščátʹ)
- Spanish: crepitar (es)
- Swedish: knastra (sv), spraka (sv)
- Ukrainian: тріща́ти impf (triščáty), шкварча́ти impf (škvarčáty) (due to heat or fire)
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