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verb-intransitive. To make a succession of slight sharp snapping noises: a fire crackling in the wood stove.

verb-intransitive. To show liveliness, energy, or intensity: a book that crackles with humor.

verb-intransitive. To become covered with a network of fine cracks; craze.

v. To crush (paper, for example) with sharp snapping sounds.

v. To cause (china, for example) to become covered with a network of fine cracks.

n. The act or sound of crackling.

n. A network of fine cracks on the surface of glazed pottery, china, or glassware.

n. Crackleware.

n. A fizzing, popping sound.

n. A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.

n. 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.

v. To make a fizzing, popping sound.

verb-intransitive. To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate.

n. The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.

n. A kind of crackling sound or râle, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs.

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.

To make slight cracks, or sudden sharp, explosive noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; crepitate: as, burning thorns crackle.

To quaver in singing.

In lute-playing, to play the tones of a chord in succession instead of simultaneously. See arpeggio.

To cover with a network of minute cracks, as porcelain or glass.

n. One of a series of small, sharp, quickly repeated noises, such as are made by a burning fire; crackling.

n. A small crack; specifically, a network of cracks characterizing the surface-glaze of some kinds of porcelain and fine pottery.

n. In pathology, same as crepitant rále (which see. under rále).

adj. having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware

n. the sharp sound of snapping noises

v. make a crackling sound

v. to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks

n. glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface

v. make a crushing noise

"Where I hunt, radio crackle is becoming as common as the jackhammer pounding of sapsuckers and three-toed woodpeckers."

fancy   

crackled    crackles    crackless    crackling   

rattle    change    vary    alter    china   

fish-roe crackle   

crackleware    crackling   

crepitate    crackling    break    crack    decrepitate    crepitation    decrepitation   

Spackle    cackle    grackle    hackle    jackal    shackle    spackle    tackle    unshackle   

hiss    rustle    snap    rattle    hum    roar    thud    rumble    creak    whine