different between rackle vs crackle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ.k?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English rakyl (“chain”), apparently related to Old Frisian rakels (“chain”), French racle ("the iron ring of a door") (from a Germanic source), and also Middle English rakente, from Old English racente (“chain, fetter”). More at rackan.

Alternative forms

• rakkill (Scotland)

Noun

rackle (countable and uncountable, plural rackles)

1. (countable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A chain.
2. (uncountable, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Noisy talk.

Verb

rackle (third-person singular simple present rackles, present participle rackling, simple past and past participle rackled)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To talk noisily; rattle on.

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain. Probably from rack (“to drive; move; go forward rapidly”), alteration of Middle English reken (“to drive; move; tend”), from Old Norse reka, vreka (“to drive; drift; toss”) +? -le (“tending or prone to”). Related to Icelandic reka, Swedish vräka, Danish vrage, English wrack.

Adjective

rackle (comparative more rackle, superlative most rackle)

1. Of a person: rash, impetuous, reckless
2. Rough, crude
3. Sturdy in old age

Anagrams

• Clarke, calker, lacker, recalk

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