different between crackle vs crepitate

English

Etymology

From Middle English crakelen, equivalent to crack +? -le (frequentative suffix). The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?æk?l/
• Rhymes: -æk?l

Noun

crackle (plural crackles)

1. A fizzing, popping sound.

2. (pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
3. (physics) 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.
4. Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”)
   • 2017, Edgar Maranan, ?Len Maranan-Goldstein, A Taste of Home: Pinoy Expats and Food Memories

     By the look on my face I must have anticipated the joy of the crackle, apparently having come to look forward to the roast pig that appeared only at gatherings such as this. I bet I asked for another piece once I was done.

Derived terms

• crackleware

Translations

Verb

crackle (third-person singular simple present crackles, present participle crackling, simple past and past participle crackled)

1. (intransitive) To make a fizzing, popping sound.

   a crackling fire

Translations

Derived terms

• crackling

Anagrams

• cackler, clacker

English

Etymology

From Latin crepitare (“to creak, rattle, clatter, crackle”), frequentative of crepare (“to creak, rattle, etc., burst or break with a noise, crash”).

Verb

crepitate (third-person singular simple present crepitates, present participle crepitating, simple past and past participle crepitated)

1. To crackle, to make a crackling sound.
   1. (medicine) to crackle, as crepitant lungs do, as some arthritic joints may do, or as some fractured bones may do.
   2. (medicine, obsolescent) to flatulate.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• crepitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• crepitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• crepitate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

crepitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of crepitare
2. second-person plural imperative of crepitare
3. feminine plural of crepitato

Anagrams

• precettai

Latin

Verb

crepit?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of crepit?