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Meanings of crackling in English

Portuguese
creptação

The sharp sound of snapping noises.

creptação

The residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered.

Synonyms
Examples for "crackle"
Examples for "crackle"
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Then the rain broke-brokein lashing whip-cordswith the crackle of fire.
Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
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With a faint crackle, the lights in the control room come on.
Zork, the Force of Krill
3
The kitchen was very still except for the crackle of the fire.
Glenloch Girls
4
There was a crackle over the line, then Concepción's voice said, Segundo.
Earth Unaware
5
The crackle of the wood was lively to his ears and cheerful.
Kenny
1
He spoke of dulness and crepitation, and the effects of the African air.
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
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Yet, in spite of this precautionary crepitation, he salutes Jove with constricted buttocks.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
3
Passive movement of the phalanges in all directions is practised in order to produce crepitation.
Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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There is one, however, which, in a majority of cases, will not fail-itis crepitation.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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When rotation of the parts does not occasion crepitation, gentle flexion and extension may do so.
Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
Usage of crackling in English
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Tonino heard her flapping and crackling among the paper-ifit was paper.
The Magicians of Caprona
2
It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace.
Les Misérables
3
He heard the crackling of the wood in the small kitchen stove.
Atlantis
4
The crackling in the brush indicated that the men were very near.
Trials and Triumphs of Faith
5
From the north end of the house came another grinding, crackling crash.
Bag of Bones
6
The dark, crowded drawing-room flickered in the light from the crackling fire.
The Prelude to Adventure
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We could hear nothing but the breeze crackling in the silken curtains.
The Helmet of Navarre
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In the chamber was the sound of thunder, crackling like broken glass.
The Metal Monster
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The crackling of the fire behind her was the only sound within.
The Bars of Iron
10
Every half hour, 'Telcam opened a channel and listened to crackling static.
Glasslands
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It had been crackling, sputtering nasal tinny words while the men talked.
Funland
12
His arms described two enormous perfect circles-blazing red, crackling blue-in the air.
The Necromancer
13
Just then I was startled by a crackling noise in the fireplace.
Jerusalem
14
John McEnroe bore more of a crackling, spikey presence in The Point.
The Irish Times
15
There was an audible crackling this time and the beginning of resistance.
The Great Book of Amber
16
Then she did hear something: a mysterious, vastly distant rustling and crackling.
The golden compass
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Translations for crackling
Portuguese
creptação
Crackling through the time
Crackling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common