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Crisp

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Noun

1. chip, crisp, potato chip, saratoga chip

a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

Verb

2. crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle

make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in

Example Sentences:
'The dress got wrinkled'
'crease the paper like this to make a crane'

3. crisp, crispen, toast

make brown and crisp by heating

Example Sentences:
'toast bread'
'crisp potatoes'

Adjective

4. crisp, sharp

(of something seen or heard) clearly defined

Example Sentences:
'a sharp photographic image'
'the sharp crack of a twig'
'the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot'

5. crisp, crispy

tender and brittle

Example Sentences:
'crisp potato chips'

6. crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy

pleasantly cold and invigorating

Example Sentences:
'crisp clear nights and frosty mornings'
'a nipping wind'
'a nippy fall day'
'snappy weather'

7. crisp

pleasingly firm and fresh

Example Sentences:
'crisp lettuce'

8. crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy

(of hair) in small tight curls

9. crisp, curt, laconic, terse

brief and to the point; effectively cut short

Example Sentences:
'a crisp retort'
'a response so curt as to be almost rude'
'the laconic reply; yes''
'short and terse and easy to understand'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Crisp

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adjective
1. 
dry and brittle
2. 
fresh and firm
crisp lettuce
3. 
invigorating or bracing
a crisp breeze
4. 
clear; sharp
crisp reasoning
5. 
lively or stimulating
crisp conversation
6. 
clean and orderly; neat
a crisp appearance
7. 
concise and pithy; terse
a crisp reply
8. 
wrinkled or curly
crisp hair
verb
9. 
to make or become crisp
noun
10. British
a very thin slice of potato fried and eaten cold as a snack
11. 
something that is crisp

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Crisp

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adjective
1. 
stiff and brittle; easily broken, snapped, or crumbled
crisp bacon, cookies, etc.
2. 
fresh and firm
crisp celery
3. 
fresh and tidy
a crisp uniform
4. 
sharp and clear
a crisp analysis
5. 
lively; animated
crisp dialogue
6. 
fresh and invigorating; bracing
crisp air
7. 
sharply and squarely hit
a crisp tennis shot
8. 
closely curled and wiry
crisp hair
9. 
rippled; wavy; wrinkled
noun
10. 
something crisp
; now, specif.,
a. 
a piece of food, esp. a cookie, that is thin and crisp or contains a crunchy ingredient
b. 
something made crisp, as by overcooking
chiefly in the phrase to a crisp
dinner burned to a crisp
c. 
a dessert consisting of fruit baked with a crumbly topping as of flour, sugar, and butter
apple crisp
11.  British
potato chip
verb transitive, verb intransitive
12. 
to make or become crisp

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Crisp

see synonyms of crisp
adj. crisp·er, crisp·est
1. Firm but easily broken or crumbled; brittle: crisp potato chips.
2. Pleasingly firm and fresh: crisp carrot and celery sticks.
3.
a. Bracing; invigorating: crisp mountain air.
b. Lively; sprightly: music with a crisp rhythm.
4. Conspicuously clean or new: a crisp dollar bill.
5. Marked by clarity, conciseness, and briskness: a crisp reply.
6. Having small curls, waves, or ripples. Used of hair.
v. crisped, crisp·ing, crisps
v.tr.
To make or keep crisp.
v.intr.
To become or remain crisp.
n.
1. Something crisp or easily crumbled: The roast was burned to a crisp.
2. A dessert of fruit baked with a sweet crumbly topping: apple crisp.
3. Chiefly British A potato chip.

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