(n.) The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
(n.) The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.
(n.) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
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).
Crisp
Definition:
(a.) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets; as, crisp hair.
(a.) Curled with the ripple of the water.
(a.) Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow.
(a.) Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
(a.) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
(a.) Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
(a.) To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.
(a.) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple. Cf. Crimp.
(a.) To make crisp or brittle, as in cooking.
(v. i.) To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t.
(n.) That which is crisp or brittle; the state of being crisp or brittle; as, burned to a crisp; specifically, the rind of roasted pork; crackling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
(2) The exception was potato crisps which gave a similar glycemic response to boiled potato.
(3) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
(4) But these qualities in Bush were all too apparent in last night's interview, particularly in the way he would dance away from any acknowledgement of culpability by saying that he could "understand why people feel that way", whether it be about what he euphemistically called a "lack of a crisp response" to Hurricaine Katrina, or anger at the bank bailouts.
(5) Ledley’s crisp finish from the edge of the area as the visitors failed to clear a corner should have put them on the road to redemption.
(6) The screen is sharp and clear: websites and book text are easily legible, videos crisp and colourful.
(7) In place of prosciutto: • Bacon sliced and fried until crisp.
(8) Bogotá is a more liberal environment to paint, sure,” says Crisp, “but it’s definitely not all just legalised and a free for all.
(9) Crisps and the music of Hawkwind were their fuel – welcome necessities that were consumed habitually but uncritically.
(10) 3.52am BST Tigers 3 - A's 0, top of the 8th Infante hits a looper to the outfield that looks like it could drop, but Crisp gets to it in time for the out.
(11) A military band played the US and Malaysian national anthems twice and Obama inspected an elaborate honour guard in crisp green and white before the arrival ceremony came to a close.
(12) In Manchester, which after all is the birthplace of the crisp Smiths, there's old faves James , a newly-revamped Easterhouse and a whole bag of loser Smith clones.
(13) Fit frequency was markedly reduced in 43% of patients, few side effects occurred and psychological parameters including the Crown-Crisp questionnaire, showed improvement.
(14) Last month one woman asked for a bag of crisps and a bottle of cherry coke and burst into tears when she got it.
(15) That cost the then chief executive, Nigel Crisp, his job.
(16) There's a sense of generations passing in a haze of crisp formalities, with decades of unexpressed emotions left to accumulate, like dust on a snoozing duchess.
(17) Heat a little oil in a pan then cook the dumplings until crisp and puffed, then roll in the cinnamon sugar.
(18) Still, as the crisp white stuff beloved of children turns into freezing grey slush, it's worth another laugh at the old British Rail " wrong type of snow " excuse.
(19) CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a large database maintained and operated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
(20) Tissue sections covered by a solution of colloidal silver nitrate are exposed to microwaves for 45 sec in a domestic oven to produce clean, crisp staining of melanocytes and melanoma cells, often showing long delicate dendritic cell processes.