Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CRACKLING

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Definitions of CRACKLING

1. The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
2. Three stripes of velvet worn on the sleeves of students at St John's College, Cambridge.
3. Sounding with small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
4. (cookery, often, in the plural, US) Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens
5. (cookery, in the singularinBritain) The crispy rind of roast pork.
6. (cookery, countable) A crispy, fried skin or rind, especially of pork.
7. (obsolete, usually, in the plural) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
8. inflection of crackle

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Examples of Using CRACKLING in a Sentence

• The Eurasian coot is a noisy bird with a wide repertoire of crackling, explosive, or trumpeting calls, often given at night.
• Crackles are the clicking, rattling, or crackling noises that may be made by one or both lungs of a human with a respiratory disease during inhalation, and occasionally during exhalation.
• Substantial meat and fish dishes includes flæskesteg (roast pork with crackling) and kogt torsk (poached cod) with mustard sauce and trimmings.
• Dive's "audio trademark" is the experimental sound of abused drum machines, pulsating through crackling distortion on almost every song.
• A crackling hard bop player with blazing technique, crisp articulations, and a no-frills sound, Hardman later incorporated into his sound the fuller, more extroverted romantic passion of a Clifford Brown – a direction he would take increasingly throughout the late-1960s and 1970s.
• As the TAE connector does not have gold contacts, the contacts may oxidize, which can cause sizzling and crackling noises in analog voice transmission.
• It is still used in combination with potassium chlorate to make a contact explosive known as "red explosive" for some types of torpedoes and other novelty exploding fireworks branded as 'cracker balls', as well in the cores of some types of crackling stars.
• As the Doctor and Leela explore, something moves Ben's body onto the island, and they witness an electric crackling nearby.
• Every piece of paper in the movie is soaking wet, in order to keep crackling paper sounds from overloading the primitive recording equipment of the time.
• The effort to bind it up inhibits the crackling, open-ended, restlessly varied surges of sound he devised with such distinction for Company.
• Most criticised was the behavior at low revs, the engine sound was described with words like "a pail of nuts and bolts being poured through a Magimix", rattling clutch, grinding transmission, crackling chassis, rumbling and groaning body contributing to the impression of imminent breakdown.
• That night, two herdsmen near the site heard a continuous roar, punctuated by loud bangs and crackling sounds "like that of great rockslides".
• Tom De Haven of The New York Times praised Russo's use of humor and dialogue, writing,

  The novel's greatest pleasures derive not from any blazing impatience to see what happens next, but from pitch-perfect dialogue, persuasive characterization and a rich progression of scenes, most of them crackling with an impudent, screwball energy.

• The Complaynt is also a significant example of Middle Scots language, and the Oxford English Dictionary cites the Complaynt as the earliest surviving written example of numerous words, including: axis, barbarian, buffoon, cabinet, crackling, decadence, excrement, heroic, humid, imbecile, moo, parallel, robust, suffocation, superb, timid and water-lily.
• The band's music is recorded on reel-to-reel tape decks with crackling microphones and is played on untuned guitars, accordion and a home-made drum kit built of tin cans and trays, with the occasional accompaniment of household objects such as saucepans, radiators and toy instruments.
• Robert Koehler, reviewing for Variety, called it "scrappy foolishness" and noted the "visual jokes pile up like the bad guys but never at the kind of crackling pace this brand of spoof demands" while comparing it to Fear of a Black Hat.
• The song's musicscape also features hand claps, a rhythm section, and "cruises on an unconventional reedy rhythm and crackling beat", according to Chuck Cavalaris of The Knoxville News-Sentinel.
• " Apter said that Ake had "crackling intelligence and an outspokenly severe view of African politics and nevertheless, underneath that, a quality of understanding which was remarkably subtle and complex.
• Cerastes species are not known to be particularly ill-tempered ("fairly placid"), but when threatened they will often stand their ground and form C-shaped coils that are rubbed together to produce a rasping or crackling sound, similar to Echis.
• Variety magazine called Final Analysis "a crackling good psychological melodrama" with "tantalizing double-crosses".
• Define the Great Line was noted as a turning point for Underoath, with AllMusic commenting that "while the tendency to dissolve into the abyss of angtsy emo-pop was still there," there was a "darkness lurking in the nooks and crannies between the crackling snare hits and heavy 'drop-d' riffing" that would be fully realized on their sixth studio album Lost in the Sound of Separation (2008).
• He has a crackling, mid-pubescent voice and often uses catch-phrases such as "alphanumeric" and "high-density" in place of real-world expressions like "cool" and "awesome" to express enthusiasm.
• Wood can be hammered softer, or dimpled, bleached, pickled, stained or repainted with crackling paints and varnishes.
• The main ident featured many celebrities who would be featuring in programmes on the channel that Christmas, such as Sir Bruce Forsyth, Michael McIntyre, David Jason, Brendan O'Carroll, Lee Mack, Frank Skinner, Alexander Armstrong, Tess Daly, Lenny Henry, Alex Jones, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, a Cyberman, Graham Norton and the Outnumbered kids (Tyger Drew-Honey, Daniel Roche, Ramona Marquez) in a homefront setting with a crackling fire, singing Consider Yourself from the Broadway musical Oliver.
• Not just a nod of respect, it's a canny move, as the crackling, wheezing shanty-town piano sounded like nothing else on 1993 radio, giving "Oh Carolina" instant cut-through.

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