📖 Definitions of "Crackles"
noun
- 1
A fizzing, popping sound.
- 2
A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
- 3
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.
verb
- 1
To make a fizzing, popping sound.
"a crackling fire"
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Crackles"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| crunchnoun | To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound. |
| crepitationnoun | A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air. |
| scranchverb | (transitive, archaic) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to crunch. |
| fancynoun | The imagination. |
| crepitateverb | To crackle, to make a crackling sound. |
| cracklewarenoun | Articles made with a crackle glaze. |
| scraunchverb | Alternative form of scranch. [(transitive, archaic) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to crunch.] |
| crackle chinanoun | glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface |
| ralenoun | (medicine, now chiefly in the plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema. |
| cracklinessnoun | The condition of being crackly |
| crepitusnoun | (medicine) Grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints. |
| crepsnoun | (medicine, colloquial) Crepitations. |
| cracklernoun | That which crackles. |
| crepitancenoun | Nonstandard spelling of crepitus. [(medicine) Grating, crackling or popping sounds and sensations experienced under the skin and joints.] |
| crackletnoun | A little crack. |
| crackingnoun | The production of a crack sound. |
| rashnoun | (dermatology, medicine) An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus. Also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash. |
| sibilant rhonchusnoun | (medicine, dated) wheezing |
| cracknoun | A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. |
| rattlenoun | Object that rattles. |
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