(v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
(n.) The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
(n.) A kind of crackling sound or r/le, heard in some abnormal states of the lungs; as, dry crackle; moist crackle.
(n.) A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The duration of the individual crackles became shorter and the timing of the crackles shifted toward the end of inspiration.
(2) Reasons for the discrepancies include the fact that there are no absolute criteria for crackles and that rapidly occurring crackles are difficult to count by ear.
(3) When end-expiratory Ptp was set constant between 15 and 20 cmH2O and end-expiratory Ptp was gradually reduced from 5 cmH2O to -15 or -20 cmH2O in a breath-by-breath manner, crackles were produced in the cycles in which end-expiratory Ptp fell below -1 to 1 cmH2O.
(4) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(5) With more echoes of Scotland, in both places, people on the ground say that local debate is crackling with energy.
(6) The exam hall crackles with a hushed excitement as the papers for our last ever exam are taken in.
(7) In addition, this group of patients showed a significant correlation between the number of expiratory crackles and the reduction in predicted transfer factor, suggesting that expiratory crackles may be a clinical indicator of the severity of disease in fibrosing alveolitis.
(8) I arrive at my hotel, a friendly, functional place with a crackling fire and big sofas.
(9) In workers exposed to asbestos, crackles correlated with exposure.
(10) The other passengers aren't much trouble, beyond the occasional loud phone call or crackling headphones.
(11) Presenting findings included crackles, haemoptysis, and hypotension.
(12) It was a phenomenal atmosphere, it was absolutely crackling.
(13) These cases involved elderly patients with progressive dyspnea and nonproductive cough, bilateral dry crackling rales, bilateral interstitial infiltrates evident on a chest roentgenogram, and restrictive findings on pulmonary function testing.
(14) It sounds like you're at sea, I say, between the beeps and crackles.
(15) This filter extracts an impulsive signal, which is a small-width wave, and its succeeding waves; such wave form is typical of that of crackles.
(16) The crowd threw their arms in the air as one, and drowned out the crackle of fireworks overhead with their screams of approval.
(17) Crackles are commonly used in clinical decision-making, and in certain diseases the number of crackles reflects the severity of the illness.
(18) Crackling lung sounds are associated with many pulmonary diseases.
(19) Never, ever overtly refer to the electricity crackling between the two of you.
(20) The method is validated by studying the crackles of 20 adult patients; 10 with fibrosing alveolitis (FA) and 10 with bronchiectasis (BE).
Rustle
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
(v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
(v. t.) To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
(n.) A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(2) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(3) From ovary we can perceive a rustle produced by gas crossing in abdominal cavity.
(4) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
(5) The hillsides of the West Bank are rustling with industry.
(6) Recipe supplied by Sasha Martin, globaltableadventure.com Merguez sausage and sweet potato hash This unusual take on hash is quick to rustle up.
(7) Late summer light glances off stubble-filled fields, a delicate breeze rustles through the trees and birds chirp contentedly.
(8) On the cash-strapped Independent, they worry the money will dry up if Lebedev is jailed, while Evening Standard staff wonder how the local TV station is going to be rustled up out of an operation that has already been shorn of all journalistic fat.
(9) As the chancellor has found, even after Mervyn King has thrown the best part of £400bn at the economy, a recovery can't be rustled up to order.
(10) They used the guns they found there to rustle cattle in neighbouring Kenya and what is now South Sudan.
(11) It was once the scene of cattle rustling, with the various clans – including the Matheniko, Gei and Dodoth – of the Karamojong people stealing from and ambushing one another using guns looted from armouries after the fall of Idi Amin.
(12) There are lots of menacing notices about ‘DON’T COUGH – you will deafen millions of people’, ‘DON’T RUSTLE YOUR PAPERS’, and ‘Don’t turn to the announcer and say was that all right?
(13) You relax with a glass of local vin rosé , listening to the river and the rustling trees.
(14) He considers one of the key challenges to be starting a dialogue with spiritual leaders, known as spear masters, who get young men fired up to go cattle rustling in exchange for hefty fees.
(15) But first let it be said, whatever the merits of this latest policy, it would not have been rustled up unless the US economy was in the doldrums.
(16) Another wet, grey morning – and another rustle of music on the wind, this time by Tchaikovsky and this time in New Cross, south-east London, played by children at Myatt Garden primary school.
(17) Nasa scrambled to get replacement equipment aboard Dragon, as did schoolchildren who rustled up new science projects.
(18) Fifteen years after the fledgling business failed to rustle up $2m from Silicon Valley, Alibaba will be raising $21bn or more and will be valued at around $160bn, with dealings due to start next Friday.
(19) A thick tropical garden protects the breakfast terrace from the street, and Arthur often rustles up the egg and bacon himself.
(20) Or she's just stepped off Christopher Kane's catwalk at LFW and is rustling up a quick cake before she heads back to the after party.