What's the difference between blurry and crisp?

Blurry


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of blurs; blurred.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Almost all the hundreds of allegedly missing drawings, which range from close-up detail to blurry colour washes and clearly held a powerful erotic charge for Turner, appear to be safely in the Tate collection.
  • (2) Ann's audiovisual address ends with her projecting on to the screen behind her a series of extremely blurry photographs.
  • (3) You know, I actually don’t know, because it was so far away and it was blurry.
  • (4) Light is then focused in front of the retina instead of precisely on to it, making distant objects look blurry.
  • (5) Of particular concern is the complaint of 'blurry vision' that may indicate the presence of optic neuropathy.
  • (6) For some at the bottom of the pile, at least, the line between zero-hours working and self-employment is getting blurry.
  • (7) The anger will fade, in the end but those blurry memories of this brilliant game will linger on much longer.
  • (8) LaVoy Finicum, the Oregon militia spokesman killed by law enforcement officials on a remote highway, was armed with a handgun and reached for his pocket before he was shot, according to the FBI, which shared blurry video footage of the shooting on Thursday night.
  • (9) But when even Felix started to echo back the word yamas – "cheers" in Greek – I knew it was time to catch the ferry to a simpler existence, away from the blurry influence of Dionysus.
  • (10) Four years ago – in the blurry haze following my diagnosis – I had to make a swift decision about whether to have a breast reconstruction at the same time as my mastectomy.
  • (11) A case is presented of a postpartum woman prescribed bromocriptine for suppression of lactation who developed hypertension, headaches, blurry vision, seizures, and pituitary hemorrhage.
  • (12) It began as an attempt to restore one blurry image that had been hidden for a century behind a large built-in wardrobe on William Morris's bedroom wall.
  • (13) And with optical image stabilisation, you no longer have to worry about shaky hands and blurry pictures," Google said.
  • (14) The defocus levels required for normal observers to notice the first perceptible blur of a clear test target (blur threshold) and the least perceptible change in the degree of blurriness of an already blurry target (threshold of perceived change in blur) were measured using both the source and observer methods.
  • (15) Lebanon’s Al-Manar television channel, run by the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, carried still, blurry pictures of pools of blood inside what appeared to be the mosque where the attack took place.
  • (16) The camera swoops and shakes, the main characters shift in and out of blurry focus, and there is no sound apart from music and a triumphant voice-over.
  • (17) "We're in this new era of entertainment where the lines between consuming content and participating in it are blurry," he said, before pointing to the global nature of YouTube, with 40% of the 80,000 channels in AwesomenessTV's network produced outside the US.
  • (18) It was interesting to see what foreigners are shown – a chilly model hospital with no patients, for example – and a few blurry glimpses of what they are not shown: the miserable poor, squatting in ditches.
  • (19) These are principles that we must stand by, even when we disagree with the message of the speaker.” Santilli’s prosecution raises questions about the blurry line between media personality and protest participant and the extent to which free-speech rights can protect a radio host who, in several ways, engaged in the armed occupation of federal land.
  • (20) The mere release of the American cover was much buzzed about: it shows the blurry image of a girl overlaid with royal blue lettering.

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.