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Crackle vs Tinkle - What's the difference?

crackle | tinkle |

In lang=en terms the difference between crackle and tinkle

is that crackle is to make a fizzing, popping sound while tinkle is to indicate, signal, etc by tinkling.

As nouns the difference between crackle and tinkle

is that crackle is a fizzing, popping sound while tinkle is a light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.

As verbs the difference between crackle and tinkle

is that crackle is to make a fizzing, popping sound while tinkle is to make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.

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

    tinkle

    English

    Verb

    (tinkl)
  • To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
    • The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
  • * Dodsley
    • The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
  • (intransitive, informal, juvenile) To urinate.
  • To cause to tinkle.
  • To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
    • The butler tinkled dinner.
  • To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  • * Dryden
    • And his ears tinkled , and the colour fled.

    Related terms

    * tinkle the ivories

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) , ch. 2:
    • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. . . . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
  • (UK, informal) A telephone call.
    • Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
  • (informal, euphemism) An act of urination.