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Clack vs Crackle - What's the difference?

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Clack is a related term of crackle.


In lang=en terms the difference between clack and crackle

is that clack is to cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click while crackle is to make a fizzing, popping sound.

As nouns the difference between clack and crackle

is that clack is an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk while crackle is a fizzing, popping sound.

As verbs the difference between clack and crackle

is that clack is to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click while crackle is to make a fizzing, popping sound.

clack

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk
  • Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
  • chatter; prattle
  • * South
    • Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack .

    Derived terms

    * clack box * clack dish * clack door * clack valve

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • * Thackeray
    • We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
  • To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
    • (Feltham)
  • (UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

    • crackle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fizzing, popping sound.
  • (pottery) A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * crackleware

    Verb

    (crackl)
  • To make a fizzing, popping sound.
    • a crackling fire
  • * Dryden
    • the unknown ice that crackles underneath them

    Derived terms

    * crackling

    Anagrams

    * * English onomatopoeias