(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.
Crisper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of their comrades ran for the surrounding hills or defected to the invading rebels, known as M23, instantly gaining higher pay, more food and crisper uniforms.
(2) But the crisper, cleaner work was done by Fury, who deservedly took a unanimous decision 115-112, 115-112, 116‑111.
(3) Lager – which, say its multitudinous fans, has a crisper, cleaner taste than warm-brewed ales – was first made by monks in Bavaria 500 years ago, using a yeast that has since been shown to be a hybrid of European yeast and another yeast.
(4) The development of CRISPERT facilitates the usability of CRISPERS for intervention studies of coronary heart disease.
(5) For autumn, the London look is crisper, sharper and darker than this summer's pastels.
(6) Adeyemi produced a crisper strike to a later half-volley but Amos excelled to tip it on to the post while his manager felt a third shot ought to have produced a second penalty.
(7) I think in some ways she represented his sanctuary.” She speaks in a chipper, chatty manner, much like Mrs Booth, but in tones crisper than the character’s soft burr.
(8) Results of initial tests suggest that using an expert system as an interface between users and CRISPERS is a viable approach.
(9) Try something lighter, crisper to offset the nuttier notes of the penis, plus it is almost impossible to get red wine stains out of a penis.
(10) Although the three risk functions are strikingly different, they can all be tested using the CRISPERS chronic disease simulation system.
(11) Tellingly, Private Baldrick has proved to have a crisper grasp on history than the lot of them put together.
(12) The new 7.9in high-resolution display brings the iPad mini 2 up to par with the full-sized iPad , as well as the iPhone , and will make text crisper and more easily legible on websites and books.
(13) Their brews using the hybrid yeast ran at much lower temperatures and produced the crisper, lager-type beers for which the region has become famous – all thanks to an unexpected Patagonian import.
(14) He could have said that he preferred the more dependable and crisper light on Scotland's east coast to the more changeable, moister atmospheres of the west; or that the fields here – this was one of Scotland's richest agricultural areas – were busier with the kind of labourers he wanted to paint.
(15) Ned Grabavoy was making little darts from deep and looking for telling balls behind, the build up play was faster if not crisper, and D.C. were beginning to look a little stretched.
(16) The feasibility of using an expert system to support intervention studies within CRISPERS was investigated.
(17) It is all too easy to get frustrated with the messy and murky compromises of domestic politics - as Bush, Blair and their many sincere cheerleaders in the press have done over the past few years - and to look for escape in the cleaner and crisper air of a new liberal imperialism, where politicians and journalists can open their hearts about all the good they want to do.
(18) A prototype expert system named CRISPERT was designed to accept user inputs, adjust the values to CRISPERS requirements, start a sequence of simulations, and analyze and interpret the results.
(19) All of which means the S4 should have a bigger screen, take crisper pictures and process web pages faster than the iPhone 5.