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Definition: Crisp |
CrispAdjective1. (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". Noun1. A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat. Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. |
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CRISP | English | Cryptographic Reduced Instruction Set Processor | N/A |
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Synonyms: CrispSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Crisp |
| English words defined with "crisp": apple ♦ Bibb lettuce, breadstick, Brussels biscuit, buffalo wing ♦ celery cabbage, chicory, chicory plant, Chinese cabbage, Chinese celery, chip, Cichorium intybus, corn flake, cracker, cracklings, Crisped, crisphead lettuce, Crisping, Crumpy, curling, curly endive, curt ♦ flakiness, Friz, frizzle, Frush ♦ ginger nut, gingersnap ♦ honey crisp ♦ iceberg lettuce, ice-cream cone ♦ Kellogg ♦ laconic ♦ macadamia nut, Melba toast ♦ potato chip, potato peel, potato peelings, potato skin ♦ rusk ♦ Saratoga chip, sharkskin, sharp, simnel, snap pea, Spicenut, Stayman Winesap, succory, sugar snap pea, sweet pepper ♦ taffeta, terse, To frizzle up, toast, tostada, twice-baked bread ♦ W. K. Kellogg, wafer, wheatflake, Will Keith Kellog, Winesap ♦ zwieback. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crisp": Candy, Celery ♦ lawn finish ♦ praliné. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crisp": Crease. (references) |
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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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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. |
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| "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." |
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| Clear; crisp; abrupt; audible; clear-cut; definite; distinct; explicit; extreme; intense; marked; obvious; sudden; visible; well-defined; sharp. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
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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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She picked up the fork and combed the boiling grease and brought out a dark curl of crisp pork |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75.85% | 336 | 15,653 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.9% | 97 | 33,269 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.58% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.68% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 443 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Crisp | Last name | 6,000 | 2,214 |
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1. Crisp, NC |
Expressions using "crisp": Crisp County ♦ crisp waffle ♦ honey crisp ♦ potato crisp. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "crisp": crisp-bags, crisp-cooked, crisp-cuffed, crisp-edged, crisp-looking. | |
Ending with "crisp": starch-crisp, tender-crisp. | |
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| 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. |
| 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), 脆 (brittle, clear and loud voice), 毳 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crispus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai 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 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et erit pro suavi odore fetor et pro zona funiculus et pro crispanti crine calvitium et pro fascia pectorali cilicium |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And 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 English | 1611 | King James | And 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 English | 1833 | Webster | And 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 English | 1964 | Ogden | And 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. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 3, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | Ug 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. |
| Croatian | Mjesto miomirisa, smrad; mjesto pojasa, konopac; mjesto kovrèa, tjeme obrijano; mjesto gizdave halje, kostrijet; mjesto ljepote, žig. |
| Danish | For Vellugt kommer der Stank, i Stedet for Bælte Reb, for Fletninger skaldet Isse, for Stadsklæder Sæk om Hofte, for Skønhedsmærke Brændemærke. |
| Dutch | En 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. |
| Finnish | Silloin tulee tuoksun sijaan löyhkä, vyön sijaan nuora, käherretyn tukan sijaan kaljuus, korupuvun sijaan säkkiverho, kauneuden sijaan polttomerkki. |
| French | Au 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. |
| German | und 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. |
| Hungarian | A tükröket, a gyolcsingeket, a fõkötõket és a keczeléket: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sekarang 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 Lama | Maka 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. |
| Italian | Invece 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. |
| Maori | Na 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. |
| Norwegian | Og 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. |
| Portuguese | E 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. |
| Rumanian | Wi 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. |
| Russian | нХЦЙ ФЧПЙ РБДХФ ПФ НЕЮБ, Й ИТБВТЩЕ ФЧПЙ--ОБ ЧПКОЕ. |
| Swedish | Och 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. | |
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crisp" (pronounced kri"sp) |
| 3 | -i" s p | lisp, wisp. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 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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