(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.
Crunchy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, Guy Harvey has this to say of Kathryn Woodfine's chocolate dilemma: "Settling for the Wheat Crunchies demonstrates the following: Kathryn doesn't go for what she wants in life, she isn't resourceful.
(2) Mix the halved sprouts with the oil and a quarter-teaspoon of salt, then spread out on an oven tray lined with baking paper and roast for 10 minutes, until cooked through and golden-brown but still crunchy, then remove from the oven.
(3) 3 Bake for about 15 minutes – the cake will have a crunchy surface and be gooey inside.
(4) And a chocolate bar (crunchy biscuit base on the bottom, soft rich nougat on the top).
(5) His take on spaghetti carbonara is just as playful, the pasta replaced with crunchy strings of palmito , white fleshy palm hearts, a classic Brazilian ingredient.
(6) Nicholas Brady's text updated the science a bit, and Purcell created some gloriously crunchy dissonances resolving to broad, bright harmony as he praised Cecilia, the embodiment of music, and her role in creating cosmic harmony out of atomic chaos: "Soul of the World!
(7) James Anderson and Stuart Broad rediscovered their mojos, Chris Jordan looked every inch a Test player and Liam Plunkett, though not really suggesting he has a role in the long term, at least showed that he offers something different to add to England's bowling mix – a crunchy crouton in the soup of the attack, if you like – while the search for a spinning solution continues.
(8) This was no abstract essay, but a speech written in concrete, packed with what the wonks call "crunchy" nuggets of policy.
(9) What we need is to translate these into crunchy policies in power, buildings, transport and agriculture," he said.
(10) Toast or grill the slices of sourdough or soda bread so that they are crunchy on the outside but still have a bit of give when squeezed.
(11) Ordering a procession of dishes to share over a long afternoon's grazing is the perfect way to go here: try crunchy cubes of fried tapioca with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, and out-of-this-world torresmo (meaty, homemade pork scratchings, £1.30).
(12) Recipe supplied by Heidi Swanson, 101cookbooks.com Shredded Chinese cabbage, cashew nut and duck salad The crunchy texture of Chinese cabbage makes this salad fresh and light, despite using confit duck.
(13) This is "cucina casalinga" at its best – crunchy raddichio and fennel preserved in olive oil and vinegar, spaghetti with a rich wild-boar ragu, tender pork chops and juicy sausages hot from the grill.
(14) The moussaka (£8.50) is heavenly: crunchy and cheesy on top, and intensely savoury below.
(15) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
(16) They are deliciously light and crunchy, but still connected to cubes of tender pork.
(17) 2 Turn the heat down and cook the the flour for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly so the flour becomes slightly toasted and crunchy.
(18) Recipe supplied by Ben Tish, Saltyard Scallop and corn gyoza Briefly frying the dumplings gives a crunchy bottom.
(19) Sweet and sour courgettes with sesame noodles Sweet and sour courgettes with sesame noodles Photograph: Tamin Jones for the Guardian You can swap the courgettes for other crunchy green veg when not in season, or serve them simply with steamed rice.
(20) In White children in an institution, the mean pH value of faeces became significantly more acid when a supplement of 6 oranges, although not of bran 'crunchies', was consumed daily.