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Crisp

Definition: Crisp

Crisp

Adjective

1. (of something seen or heard) clearly defined; "a sharp photographic image"; "the sharp crack of a twig"; "the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot".

2. Tender and brittle; "crisp potato chips".

3. Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term).

4. Pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed; "crisp carrot and celery sticks"; "a firm apple"; "crunchy lettuce".

5. In small tight curls.

6. Brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand".

Noun

1. A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat.

Verb

1. Make wrinkles or creases into a smooth surface; "The dress got wrinkled".

2. Make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crisp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Crisp \Crisp\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Crisped; Crisping.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Crisp

DomainDefinition

Computing

Crisp (Or "discrete") The opposite of "fuzzy". (1994-12-23) Crispy Critters (Or "Crispy Crittered". From the "Post" breakfast cereal of the same name) A term used to describe hardware which is fried or toast. (1995-01-31) critical mass In physics, the minimum amoun. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Crisp

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CRISP

EnglishCryptographic Reduced Instruction Set ProcessorN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Crisp

Synonyms: crispy (adj), crunchy (adj), curt (adj), firm (adj), frizzly (adj), frizzy (adj), frosty (adj), kinky (adj), laconic (adj), nappy (adj), nipping (adj), nippy (adj), parky (adj), sharp (adj), snappy (adj), terse (adj), chip (n), potato chip (n), crease (v), crinkle (v), ruckle (v), scrunch (v), scrunch up (v), toast (v), wrinkle (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Crisp

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Brittleness

Adjective: brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile; splitting. Verb: lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.

Conciseness

Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.

Convolution

Verb: be convoluted; Adjective:wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave, undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, coil, roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crape, indent, scollop, scallop, wring, intort; contort; wreathe; (cross).

Roughness

Render-rough; Adjective: roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.

Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Crisp

English words defined with "crisp": appleBibb lettuce, breadstick, Brussels biscuit, buffalo wingcelery cabbage, chicory, chicory plant, Chinese cabbage, Chinese celery, chip, Cichorium intybus, corn flake, cracker, cracklings, Crisped, crisphead lettuce, Crisping, Crumpy, curling, curly endive, curtflakiness, Friz, frizzle, Frushginger nut, gingersnaphoney crispiceberg lettuce, ice-cream coneKellogglaconicmacadamia nut, Melba toastpotato chip, potato peel, potato peelings, potato skinruskSaratoga chip, sharkskin, sharp, simnel, snap pea, Spicenut, Stayman Winesap, succory, sugar snap pea, sweet peppertaffeta, terse, To frizzle up, toast, tostada, twice-baked breadW. K. Kellogg, wafer, wheatflake, Will Keith Kellog, Winesapzwieback. (references)
Specialty definitions using "crisp": Candy, Celerylawn finishpraliné. (references)
Etymologies containing "crisp": Crease. (references)

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Modern Usage: Crisp

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Pony starts dinner, wanders off, and it burns to a crisp. We take turns doing the dishes (The Outsiders; writing credit: Bruce Kirschbaum; Todd Robinson)

Lyrics

Wit the sweet toffee crisp (What's Your Flava?; performing artist: Craig David)

Mary hot pop crisp shorty got this (Love Is All We Need; performing artist: Mary J. Blige)

Tongue Twisters

Crisp crusts crackle crunchily. (references; author: unknown)

Six crisp snacks. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Quentin Crisp (1990)

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Commercial Usage: Crisp

DomainTitle

Books

  • Crisp Toasts: Wonderful Words That Add Wit and Class to Every Time You Raise Your Glass (Thomas Dunne Book) (reference)

  • Organizing Your Work Space: A Guide to Personal Productivity (A Crisp Fifty-Minute Book) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Crisp

Illustrations:
Crisp

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Photo Album: Crisp

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the Hubble telescope's crisp ... Credit: NASA.

The Hubble telescope's crisp vision has captured a first-time view of one of the smallest ... Credit: NASA.

Motherless, fatherless, starving--How much to save these little lives? War Fund week--One hundred million dollars--May 20th-27th / / Crisp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Motherless, fatherless, starving--How much to save these little lives? War Fund week--One hundred million dollars--May 20th-27th / / Crisp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Crisp
 

"Hot Red, Hot Rod" by Dustin Byerley
Commentary: "A beautiful super shiny,super vibrant red hot rod with a crisp chrome grill."
"Jogging" by Grenville Tryon
Commentary: "Father and daughter jogging in a crisp, sunny morning."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Crisp".

PlayCaption
Clear; crisp; abrupt; audible; clear-cut; definite; distinct; explicit; extreme; intense; marked; obvious; sudden; visible; well-defined; sharp.
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Familiar Quotations: Crisp

AuthorQuotation

Quentin Crisp

Manners are love in a cool climate.
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

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Use in Literature: Crisp

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

She picked up the fork and combed the boiling grease and brought out a dark curl of crisp pork

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Crisp

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Dunk crisp, dry foods in mild liquids. (references)

For most of the studies, the agencies reporting into CRISP provide summaries or abstracts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Crisp

"Crisp" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.85% of the time. "Crisp" is used about 443 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)75.85%33615,653
Noun (singular)21.9%9733,269
Lexical Verb (infinitive)1.58%7133,076
Noun (proper)0.68%3202,518
                    Total100.00%443N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Crisp

The following table summarizes the usage of "crisp" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CrispLast name6,0002,214
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Crisp


1. Crisp, NC
Zip Code(s): 27852
Country: USA

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Expressions: Crisp

Expressions using "crisp": Crisp County crisp waffle honey crisp potato crisp. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "crisp": crisp-bags, crisp-cooked, crisp-cuffed, crisp-edged, crisp-looking.

Ending with "crisp": starch-crisp, tender-crisp.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crisp

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

apple crisp

210

crisp recipe rhubarb strawberry

16

apple crisp recipe

195

1 2000 contrast count crisp image ratio thanks

15

crisp rhubarb

184

crisp county georgia

12

crisp

102

crisp evans hughes

11

crisp recipe rhubarb

85

crisp database

10

peach crisp

47

ashurst crisp morris

9

crisp rhubarb strawberry

43

bran a crisp

9

coco crisp

41

crisp hospital regional

8

quentin crisp

37

california crisp

8

cherry crisp

32

crisp learning

7

blue berry crisp

30

blackberry crisp

7

donald crisp

26

crisp ruth

7

peach crisp recipe

26

cereal cookie crisp

7

crisp nih

25

crisp point light house

7

crisp publication

21

crisp recipe rubarb

7

cookie crisp

19

crisp county

6

cherry crisp recipe

19

crisp family

6

coffee crisp

18

fruit crisp recipe

6

crisp rubarb

17

air clear crisp fresh mountain ranch working

6

blue berry crisp recipe

17

apple crisp easy

6

crisp rv

6
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Modern Translation: Crisp

Language Translations for "crisp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kaçurrel (crimpy, curl, curly, down, frizzly, frizzy, lock, ringlet, ringleted, ringlety, tress), i thyeshëm (breakable, brittle, fragile, frangible, refrangible, weak), i prerë (amputated, categorical, curdy, curt, cut, felled, firm, flat, flat-footed, hewn, indented, Nick, outright, peremptory, positive, pronounced, shorn, short, straight out, toreutic, truncated), i freskët (breezy, chilly, cool, dewy, fresh, hot, new, new-laid, recent, sweet, unhackneyed, up to date), i dredhur (curly, curved, frizzly, frizzy, shaky, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, wobbly), i acartë (bleak, chill, sharp), gjallërues (bracing, enlivening, invigorating, tonic, vivifying), bëj i brishtë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏موج (crimp, curl, undulate, wave), ‏متموج (crispy, rolling, undulant, undulate, wavy), ‏متغضن (wrinkled), ‏هش (brash, brittle, fragile, friable, powdery, short, shortened, tender, tenuous), ‏ناضر (fresh), ‏قصم (fragile, frail, friable). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, firm, natty, neat, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), свеж (breezy, brisk, cool, dewy, fair, fresh, refreshing, sweet, unhackneyed, unworn, verdant, vernal, warm, youthful), решителен (chopping, decided, decisive, determined, drastic, fateful, flat-footed, heroic, high-spirited, obstinate, peremptory, plucky, plump, point blank, pronounced, purposeful, purposive, resolute, ringing, stable, stalwart, straight out, strong-minded, sturdy, thoroughgoing, trenchant, ultimate, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, utter, winning), хрупкав (crunchy), хладен (chill, chilly, cold, cool, impersonal, inapproachable, lukewarm, passionless, tepid, unemotional, unmoved, wintry), чист (absolute, chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, lucid, mere, native, natty, neat, net, orderly, oriental, pellucid, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, sheer, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, taintless, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), къдря се (curl, wave), къдря (curl, dimple, frizz up, frounce, wave), къдрав (crimpy, curly, fleecy, frizzly, frizzy, ringleted, waved, wavy), крепирам, отривист (jerky, sharp, snappy), оживен (active, alive, animate, animated, brisk, bustling, effervescent, heated, hilarious, lively, racy, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, stirring, thriving, vivacious), изсъхвам (become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, drain, dry, dry up, get dry, mummify, parch, sear, season), изпичам се добре, изпичам така че да хруска. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

酥脆 (Crispness, Crispy), (brittle, clear and loud voice), (brittle, fine animal hair). (various references)

   

Czech

  

chrupavý (crusty), rázný (brisk, energetic, firm, peremptory, powerful, sharp), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, keen, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), odmìřený (aloof, curt, distant, stand offish, standoffish), křupavý (crunchy, crusty), křehký (breakable, brittle, crunchy, delicate, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, inconstant, lissom, shattery, tender, weak), kadeřavý (curly, frizzed), řízný (racy), úseèný (brief, curt, incisive, offhand, short, short-spoken, succinct). (various references)

   

Danish

  

kruset (crisped). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

knapperig (brittle, crunchy), croquant (brittle, crunchy). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kraketa (brittle, crunchy). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

موجدارکردن (Corrugate), مجعدشدن , چیزخشک وترد, حلقه حلقه کردن , ترد (Brittle, Eggshell, Mealy, Plucky), سیب زمینی برشته . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tuore (fresh, moist, recent), raikas (bright, clear, cool, fresh), murea (tender). (various references)

   

French

  

crêpé (crimped). (various references)

   

German

  

crispus (crisped), sauber (accurate, choice, clean, clean-cut, cleanly, fair, fresh, honest, housebroken, neat, neatly, nice, pretty, pure, ready, tidy, trig, trim, unpolluted, unsoiled, upstanding), rösch (crusty), knusprig (crisply, crispy, crunchy, crusty, luscious), knusperige, knusperig (crunchy, scrumptious), knapp (almost, bald, bare, barely, barely sufficient, close, concise, concisely, curtly, just, just enough, laconic, laconically, lean, low, meager, meagre, narrow, pithy, rare, scantily, scantly, scanty, scarce, scarcely, scrimpy, short, skimpily, skimpy, slender, stinted, summarily, taut, tautly, terse, tersely, tight, tightly), knackig (crunchy, juicy, sexy, tasty), klar (articulate, articulative, bold, clean, clean-cut, clear, clearly, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicitly, fair, intelligibly, limpid, lucid, lucidly, manifest, obvious, perspicacious, perspicuous, perspicuously, plain, plainly, precise, rather, ready, sure, transparent, unclouded, understood, unobscured, white, yeah), frisch (adroit, agile, alert, bright, brisk, cheery, chill, chilly, cool, dewy, fresh, freshly, keen, new, newly, newly-laid, nippy, Parky, recent, sweet, undressed, wet), fest (abiding, attached, banquet, buoyant, buoyantly, carnival, celebration, closely, compact, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, definite, faithfully, fast, feast, festival, festivity, fete, fexed, firm, firmly, fix, fixated, fixed, gaiety, hard, heavy, immovable, ingrained, junket, lasting, moored, non-varying, party, permanent, permanently, proof, regular, robust, safely, secure, securely, set, settled, solid, solidly, sound, squarely, stable, steadfast, steadily, steady, stiff, stout, stoutly, strong, sturdy, sustained, tight, tighten, tightly, tough, unfaltering, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering, unwaveringly), entschieden (accomplished, authoritatively, decided, decidedly, decisive, definitely, determined, distinct, emphatic, emphatically, firm, peremptorily, peremptory, resolute, resolutely, staunch, uncompromising, utter), brandneu (brand new, firenew). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κρύοσ (cold, nipping), κάνω εύθραυστο, σγουρόσ (crimpy, crinkly, crispy, frizzly, frizzy), σγουρός (curly), σγουραίνω (curl, friz, frizzle), ξηρός (dry, parched), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, cheery, chipper, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), εύθραυστοσ (breakable, brittle, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, shattery), τραγανόσ (cartilaginous, crunchy), τραγανιστός, τσουχτερόσ (keen, nipping, nippy, piquant, pungent, spicy), τσουχτερός (bitterly). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קולע (hitting, on target, well chosen), קר (chilly, cold, cool, frigid, icy), פריך (brittle, crunchy, crushable, fragile). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ropogós (cooked to a crisp, crispy, crunchy, scrunchy, short, snap). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

getas (brittle, distinct, easily, fragile), garing (cool, crunchy, dry and crispy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

croccante (brittle, croquette, nut brittle, nut crunch), crespo (crape, crepe, frizzy, fuzzy, georgette), frizzante (fizzy, racy), fresco (blooming, breezy, chilly, cool, coolness, fresh, green, new, recent, shady, virgin, wet). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

歯切れの良い (staccato), して言えば (always, be in shape, being downhearted, blearily, chat, clipped, constantly, Damn it!, drizzling, easy to do, easy to make, gently, hold a dignified appearance, if I must say, precise, rice prepared for sushi, shamelessly, stubborn, style of Japanese cooking, talk, tenacious, to be dejected, to be disheartened, to be dispirited, to chew, to lose heart, to pee, to piss, to squat, to suck, weakly), さお竹 (bamboo pole, blowfly maggots used as fishing bait, crunchy, decoy, to makedo, to split finely), シフト演算機構 (chaconne, chanson, chassis, chemise, Chevrolet, dish, good time to take a picture, hat, look sharp!, precise, propelling or mechanical pencil, shaggy carpet, shaman, shamanism, shark skin, sharp, sharpener, sherbet, Sherlockian, shift arithmetic unit, shining, shirring, shuffle, shuffling, shut, shutdown, shutout, shutter, shy, Siberia, simoon, simulate, simulation, simulator, vehicle with body lowered). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゃきしゃき (clipped, precise), さくさく (crunchy), シャッキシャッキ (precise), はぎれのよい (staccato). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

파삭파삭한. (various references)

   

Manx

  

spongit (arid, burnt up, burnt up as fowl, parched, roasted, shrivelled), brishlagh (breakable, brittle, easily broken, fragile, frangible). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

sprø (brittle, crazy, freaky, odd, peculiar, strange). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ispcray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

crepitar (crepitate, decrepitate, fizz, rattle, snap, splutter, sputter), vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), tonificante (bracing, invigorative, life-giving, recuperative, tonic), rápido (active, clear-sighted, double-quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleet-footed, light-legged, nimble, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, riffle, speedy, sudden, swift, swift-handed, tantivy, tripping, volant, winged), quebradiço (brash, brittle, crumbly, fragile, frail, friable, powdery), puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clean-fingered, fresh, genuine, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, naked, neat, plumb, pure, self, sheer, sinless, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, sweet, taintless, true, unalloyed, unblemished, unblended, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unworldly, virgin, virtuous), notas de banco, frisar (crape, crimp, curl, frizz, frizzle, goffer), fresco (bonny, buxom, caller, chilly, cool, finicky, good, new, prissy, recent, sweet), enrolar (coil, convolute, convolve, curl, furl, hank, lap, lap up, roll, roll up, twirl, twist, wind up, wrap, wrap up), encaracolar (curl, frizz, frizzle), decidido (decided, decisive, determinate, determined, forthright, game, gamy, gritty, intent, purposive, resolute, resolved, routine, settled, stark, strong, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

crocant, creţ (crease, Crimp, curly, curly haired, frizzy, kinky, pleated, ridge, wrinkle), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), se rumeni, se ondula (corrugate, undulate), se încreţi (corrugate, crease, crumple, dimple, ripple, ruck, wrinkle), rece (apathetically, bleak, chill, chilly, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, coldly, cool, damp, dank, distant, freezingly, frigid, frosty, glacial, hard-hearted, icily, icy, immovable, impersonal, inhuman, nippy, reserved, snappy, stale, stiff, stony, wintery, wintry), proaspãt (bracing, cold, cool, dewy, fresh, green, new, recent, sweet, warm), ondula (corrugate, crape, Crimp, curl, float, ridge, ripple, roll, wave, wind), fragil (breakable, brittle, fine-spun, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, handle with care, Sandy, shivery, slender, with care), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry), întãrit (packed, secure, set, stiff, weather beaten), încreţi (corrugate, curl, dimple, fold, frizz, frizzle, knit, pleat, purse, ridge, ripple, ruffle, shrivel, wave, wrinkle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

хрустящий (crispy, crunchy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

svež (bracing, breezy, chilly, coldish, cool, dewy, fresh, new, recent, young), reš, jedar (bouncing, firm, plump, succinct), hrskav (crunchy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

crespo (crispy, curl, curly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

krusa (Crimp, Crinkle, curl, frizz, frizzle, frounce, ripple, stand on ceremony), chips (chip, potato chips). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), zindeleştiren (bracing), taze (dewy, fresh, freshly, green, hot, new, raw, tender, warm), kıvrılmak (be twisted, bend, curl, curl up, frizz, frizzle, huddle up, meander, snuggle, squirm, sweep, tuck, tuck up, tuck up one's legs, twine itself, twist, twist about, wiggle, wind, wriggle, wriggle about), kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crook, curl, curl up, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizz, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, twist, wind, wind up), kıvırcık (crispy, curled, curly, curly-fleeced sheep, curly-head, curly-pate, frizzly, frizzy, woolly), kıtır kıtır (brittle, crunchy, crusty), kırışık (corrugation, crease, Crinkle, crinkly, crispy, furrow, liny, pucker, ruck, seam, wrinkle, wrinkled, wrinkly), gevrekleştirmek, gevrekleşmek, gevrek (brittle, crispy, crunchy, fragile, friable, rusk, short, tender), gıcır gıcır (brand new, bran-new, spick and span), dalgalandırmak (cause to undulate, cockle, corrugate, curl, ripple, ruffle, undulate, vex, wave), çıtır çıtır (crispy, crunchy, short, with a crackling sound). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kitirdewьk. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

свіжий (breezy, brisk, caller, clean, fresh, green, new, new-laid, original, racy, sweet), розсипчастий (crumbly, mealy, powdery), робити розсипчастим, хрустіти (crackle, crepitate, crunch, scrunch), хрустка скоринка, хрусткий (crackling), чіткий (articulate, clear-cut, coherent, neat, orotund, plucky, precise, vivid, well-defined), твердий (callous, choky, consistent, coriaceous, crusty, deep-seated, firm, hard, hard and fast, resolute, settled, solid, staunch, steadfast, stern, strong, tough), завиватися (cabbage), завивати (becurl, curl, frizz, frizzle, ululate, wail, wave), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xoăn tít mát, mạnh mẽ; sinh động, hoạt bát quăn tít, bảnh bao (dandyish, dashing, smart, spruce, stylish, swell). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

crisbin (parched, withered). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Crisp

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

crispus. (various references)

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Bible Trace: Crisp

LanguageDateSourceIsaiah Chapter 3, Verse 24
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai estai anti osmhV hdeiaV koniortoV kai anti zwnhV scoiniw zwsh kai anti tou kosmou thV kefalhV tou crusiou falakrwma exeiV dia ta erga sou kai anti tou citwnoV tou mesoporfurou perizwsh sakkon
Latin405VulgateEt erit pro suavi odore fetor et pro zona funiculus et pro crispanti crine calvitium et pro fascia pectorali cilicium
Middle English1395WyclifAnd ther shal be for swote smel stync, and for girdil a litil corde; and for crisp her ballidnesse, and for the brest bond an heire.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be an offensive odor; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

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Matched Bible Translations: Crisp

LanguageIsaiah Chapter 3, Verse 24
CebuanoUg mahinabo, nga sa kahumot moilis ang kabaho; ug sa bakus moilis ang usa ka pisi; ug sa buhok nga dasok moilis ang kaupaw; ug sa usa ka kupo, moilis ang usa ka bisti nga sako: ang paso moilis sa katahum.
CroatianMjesto miomirisa, smrad; mjesto pojasa, konopac; mjesto kovrèa, tjeme obrijano; mjesto gizdave halje, kostrijet; mjesto ljepote, žig.
DanishFor Vellugt kommer der Stank, i Stedet for Bælte Reb, for Fletninger skaldet Isse, for Stadsklæder Sæk om Hofte, for Skønhedsmærke Brændemærke.
DutchEn het zal geschieden, dat er voor specerij stank zal zijn, en lossigheid voor een gordel, en kaalheid in plaats van haarvlechten, en omgording eens zaks in plaats van een wijden rok, en verbranding in plaats van schoonheid.
FinnishSilloin tulee tuoksun sijaan löyhkä, vyön sijaan nuora, käherretyn tukan sijaan kaljuus, korupuvun sijaan säkkiverho, kauneuden sijaan polttomerkki.
FrenchAu lieu de parfum, il y aura de l`infection; Au lieu de ceinture, une corde; Au lieu de cheveux bouclés, une tête chauve; Au lieu d`un large manteau, un sac étroit; Une marque flétrissante, au lieu de beauté.
Germanund es wird Gestank für guten Geruch sein, und ein Strick für einen Gürtel, und eine Glatze für krauses Haar, und für einen weiten Mantel ein enger Sack; solches alles anstatt deiner Schöne.
HungarianA tükröket, a gyolcsingeket, a fõkötõket és a keczeléket:
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSekarang mereka memakai wangi-wangian, nanti mereka berbau busuk. Ikat pinggang mereka yang halus akan diganti dengan tambang yang kasar. Kepala mereka yang berambut indah akan digunduli. Pakaian mereka yang bagus-bagus akan diganti dengan rombengan. Sekarang mereka cantik; nanti rupa mereka buruk karena diberi cap.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka akan jadi kelak bahwa ada bau busuk akan ganti harum minyak bau-bauan, dan kain compang-camping akan ganti pakaian yang indah-indah, dan gundul kepala akan ganti ikal-ikalan rambut, dan kain kambeli akan ganti pakaian hari raya dan arang di muka akan ganti elok paras.
ItalianInvece di profumo ci sarà marciume, invece di cintura una corda, invece di ricci calvizie, invece di vesti eleganti uno stretto sacco, invece di bellezza bruciatura.
MaoriNa he kakara pai i mua, tera e puta ake he piro; he whitiki, tuku iho he tawhetawhe; he koukou huatau, tau iho he pakira kau; he tatua whakapaipai, kopakina iho ki te kakahu taratara: he ataahua, hunuhunua ake.
NorwegianOg det skal skje: I stedet for balsam skal det være stank, og for belte rep, og for kunstig krusede krøller skallet hode, og for vid kappe trang sekk, brennemerke for skjønnhet.
PortugueseE será que em lugar de perfume haverá mau cheiro, e por cinto, uma corda; em lugar de encrespadura de cabelos, calvície; e em lugar de veste luxuosa, cinto de cilício; e queimadura em lugar de formosura.   
RumanianWi atunci kn loc de miros plqcut va fi putoare; kn loc de brku, o funie; kn loc de pqr kncreyit, un cap plewuv, kn loc de mantie largq, un sac strkmt; un semn de knfierare, kn loc de frumuseyq.
RussianнХЦЙ ФЧПЙ РБДХФ ПФ НЕЮБ, Й ИТБВТЩЕ ФЧПЙ--ОБ ЧПКОЕ.
SwedishOch där skall vara stank i stället för vällukt, rep i stället för bälte, skalligt huvud i stället för krusat hår, hölje av säcktyg i stället för högtidsmantel, märken av brännjärn i stället för skönhet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Crisp

Derivations

Words beginning with "crisp": crispate, crispbread, crispbreads, crisped, crispen, crispened, crispening, crispens, crisper, crispers, crispest, crispier, crispiest, crispily, crispiness, crispinesses, crisping, crisply, crispness, crispnesses, crisps, crispy. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Crisp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cgip, Cgis, Chrisp, Chrysopa, ciespl, cirs, Clispa, cnips, cnisp, creesp, Crepsi, crip, Cripp, crips, cris, crisi, crism, Crispe, Crispi, crispum, criss, crist, criz, crizi, Croispol, crsp, cryp, cryps, crys, krip, krisp, risp, scripsi, wrisp. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Crisp"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "crisp" (pronounced kri"sp)
3-i" s plisp, wisp.

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Anagrams: Crisp

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scrip.

Words within the letters "c-i-p-r-s"

-1 letter: cris, pics, rips, spic.

-2 letters: cis, pic, pis, psi, rip, sic, sip, sir, sri.

-3 letters: is, pi, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: capris, chirps, crimps, cripes, crisps, crispy, precis, prices, pricks, scrimp, scrips, script, spicer.

 

+2 letters: ceriphs, ciphers, copiers, crisped, crispen, crisper, crisply, picaras, picaros, pickers, piecers, pierces, pincers, piscary, precise, pricers, princes, prosaic, prussic, recipes, scrapie, scrimps, scrimpy, scripts, spacier, spermic, spheric, spicers, spicery, spicier, splicer, triceps, tropics.

 

+3 letters: adscript, airscape, airspace, apricots, aspheric, calipers, cantrips, caprices, carpings, charpais, chippers, chirpers, chirrups, clippers, comprise, conspire, coscript, crampits, crappies, creepies, crepiest, crimpers, crimples, cripples, crispate, crispens, crispers, crispest, crispier, crispily, crisping, croppies, culprits, cuprites, cuspidor, cyprians, empirics, epicarps, epicures, forcipes, graphics, gripsack, haircaps, incorpse, misprice, oosporic, papricas, parchesi, parchisi, parecism, paretics, parsonic, peracids, percoids, perisarc, pibrochs, picadors, pickeers, picrates, picrites, pictures, piecrust, piercers, pinchers, pinscher, piracies, piscator, pitchers, porticos, practise, precious, precipes, precised, preciser, precises, predicts, prescind, preslice, priciest, prickers, prickets, prickles, princess, prosodic, pumicers, puristic, pyrrhics, receipts, recopies, replicas, reprices, rescript, resplice, ripcords, sapremic, saprobic, scarfpin, scarping, scorpion, scrapies, scraping, scrimped, scrimper, scrimpit, scripted, scripter, seraphic, spagyric, spherics, spicular, spiracle, splicers, sporadic, sprucier, sprucing, strophic, surplice, tipcarts, tripacks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Usage Frequency
14. Names: Frequency
15. Cities
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Bible Trace
21. Abbreviations
22. Acronyms
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes
25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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