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# crackle

verb (crackle, crackles, crackled, crackling); noun (a crackle, crackles)

«crackle» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To crackle is to make a lot of short, sharp, small sounds, like a fire burning or paper being crushed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#m1)
2. A crackle is one of these sounds, or a series of them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#m2)
3. To crackle with something (excitement, energy) means to be full of it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories the fire crackles in the fireplace, leaves crackle underfoot, a radio crackles before a voice comes through. In science it is an example of sound: dry wood snaps and pops when it burns. Phrases: crackle of the fire, snap crackle and pop, crackle with excitement.

### Examples

- The logs crackled in the fireplace. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#x1)
- Dry leaves crackled under our boots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#x2)
- The radio crackled and then went silent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#x3)
- I heard the crackle of a crisp packet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#x4)
- The air crackled with excitement before the match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#x5)
- Rice cereal crackles when you pour milk on it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#x6)
- We sat by the crackling campfire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#x7)
- The badger, hearing the crackle of the burning grass, asked, “What is that?” [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/#x8)

### Note

Regular verb: crackled, crackling. An onomatopoeic word: it sounds like the noise it names. «Crackling» is also the crispy skin of roast pork. Compare: crack (one loud sound), crackle (many small ones).

## In Jewish tradition

Ecclesiastes compares a fool's laughter to thorns crackling under a pot: loud and quick, but giving no lasting heat.

**Interpretation.** Read as a lesson that empty laughter is vanity. Thorn fire burns noisily but cooks nothing.

### Examples

- For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity. (Writings ECC.7.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crackle/#x1)

### Note

Regular verb: crackled, crackling. An onomatopoeic word: it sounds like the noise it names. «Crackling» is also the crispy skin of roast pork. Compare: crack (one loud sound), crackle (many small ones).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «crackle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crackle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «crackle» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crackle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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