different between crepitate vs crepitation

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.

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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?

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

crepitation (countable and uncountable, plural crepitations)

1. The act of crepitating or crackling.
   • 1923, George Allan England, The Thing from—"Outside"

     Silence again, save for the crepitation of the flames, the fall of an ember, the murmur of the current.

2. 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.
3. A crepitant rale.

Related terms

• crepitate
• crepitant

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