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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.

Crisply


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a crisp manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
  • (2) In 10, the iliac arteries were normal and appeared circular and pulsatile with a 3-layered wall and crisply defined lumens.
  • (3) Some of our favourite things to stir in include: chickpeas and fried chorizo pieces; crisply fried smoked streaky bacon and frozen peas; chunks of aubergine fried in a pan, crumbled ricotta or cream cheese on top; capers and basil; chopped anchovies, a little cream and chopped rosemary; wilted rocket with crumbled feta on top; or chopped basil, a knob of butter, and a little balsamic.
  • (4) Harry Kane’s third goal in four caps was crisply pilfered 10 minutes into his cameo.
  • (5) He was hitting his shots crisply and forcing Murray to shift uneasily side to side.
  • (6) The ball nicked off Coloccini and Zaha left it for Bolasie to shoot crisply past Elliot.
  • (7) He picked out Robin van Persie with a crisply delivered diagonal ball, only for the striker to be denied by Tom Heaton’s reaction save.
  • (8) The lower margin of the mass is always more crisply defined than the upper margin, and the appearance on the lateral film is fairly characteristic.
  • (9) There, he ate a "wide, tender" circle of celeriac paved with chestnut slices, crisply gratinéed, set in a puddle of truffle sauce – delicious, but simple.
  • (10) A portrait emerges in the book of a handsome, crisply tailored lawyer of regal bearing who made heads turn and "didn't have to try very hard for women to fall at his feet".
  • (11) Well,” he says, more crisply than at any other time in the interview, “you’ll have to take that up with the controllers.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Attenborough helps to feed an orangutan and her baby in 1982.
  • (12) In the Daily Telegraph on Monday April 17 1961 Donald Saunders' first paragraph crisply summed up the previous Saturday's match at Wembley: "Always the English will believe the genius of captain Johnny Haynes earned glorious victory; Scotsmen will forever blame goalkeeper Frank Haffey's shortcomings for ignominious defeat."
  • (13) Ruben Loftus-Cheek provided the visitors’ second, sliding a pass through the centre for Oscar to collect before McFadzean was aware of his presence, the finish crisply clipped into the far corner from an unkind angle.
  • (14) Last week, the Tory Bow group published its crisply written response to the chancellor's autumn statement.
  • (15) The energy in Twitter gathers around people who can say things crisply and entertainingly, even though they may be "unknown".
  • (16) Damian Green said crisply that Mr Mitchell had apologised to the officer, the officer had accepted it, "and for most people that would be enough".
  • (17) For demonstrating alkaline phosphatase in glycol methacrylate-embedded kidney by a standard azo dye method, such membranes enabled incubation times to be reduced to 1-2 hr, with azo dye reaction product being more crisply localized as compared to sections stained without membranes.
  • (18) Gayle, loitering at the winger’s side, crisply side-footed in a second Premier League goal of the term beyond Jakob Haugaard.
  • (19) There darted Zlatan Ibrahimovic, timing his diagonal run perfectly, with his finish dispatched crisply beyond the on-rushing Wayne Hennessey from an unkind angle and into the net.
  • (20) You could practically hear Bashir crisply and obediently saluting as he accused Hardin of the crime of disrespect to a general; here is just some of what he shouted, literally, each time Hardin tried to move on: "I'm sorry, I cannot allow you to cast such a contemptuous aspersion against a senior military officer by demeaning his service to this country.

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