| 单词 | crackle |
| 释义 | crackle (once / 917 pages) 1vn 2vnadj To crackle is to make short, sharp cracking noises. A roaring fire in your wood stove crackles as it burns. Fires crackle, as small branches pop and snap from the heat, and a voice over an intercom might crackle with static. You could also describe the sound of your feet on dried leaves and branches as you walk through the woods as a crackle. A visual crackle, as opposed to one you hear, appears as tiny cracks in the surface: "I like that crackle effect on your table." WORD FAMILYcrackle: crackled, crackles, crackling, cracklingly, crackly+/crackling: cracklings USAGE EXAMPLESWriting that crackles off the page and explodes in the imagination. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) The Rams prevailed, 73-64, but the atmosphere crackled with the type of energy and fury unseen at EagleBank Arena for many winters. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) She crackled with life on this planet, in this galaxy. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1v make a crackling sound My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl Syn|Hyper crepitate rattle make short successive sounds 2v make a crushing noise Syn|Hypo|Hyper crunch, scranch, scraunch crump, scrunch, thud make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants make noise, noise, resound emit a noise 3n the sharp sound of snapping noises 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper crackling, crepitation decrepitation the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) 1v to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks The blazing sun crackled the desert sand Hyper alter, change, vary become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence 2n glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface Syn|Hyper crackle china, crackleware china high quality porcelain originally made only in China 3adj having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware a crackle glaze Syn fancy not plain; decorative or ornamented |
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