(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.
Kinky
Definition:
(a.) Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.
(a.) Queer; eccentric; crotchety.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
(2) Mating experiments indicated that the kinky-coat character is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene designated kc (kinky coat), which is not allelic to the gene ch (curly hair) previously reported in the Tr strain derived from wild musk shrews on Taramajima Island, Japan.
(3) Steely hair disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized by slow growth, progressive cerebral dysfunction, kinky friable hair, x-linked inheritance, and death before three years of age.
(4) The difficulties of early diagnosis of Menkes' kinky hair syndrome are described guided by the clinical courses of three related patients.
(5) Bushy” is the word used most; “nappy” and “kinky” are harsher, coarser words.
(6) These clinical features resembled those in Menkes kinky hair disease.
(7) The evolution of neurophysiological features including the electroencephalogram (EEG), electroretinogram (ERG), and visual evoked potentials (VEP) is reported in eight cases of Menkes' "kinky hair" disease.
(8) The authors describes a case of Menkes' disease, sex-linked recessive hereditary disease characterized by early progressive psychomotor deterioration, failure to gain weight, seizures, hypothermie and characteristic Kinky hair (Pilitorti).
(9) All patients received radical hysterectomy at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kinki University, between May 1975 and December 1986.
(10) The mouse mutant Mobr is an animal model of Menkes kinky hair syndrome with a similar defect in copper utilization.
(11) There has been furious speculation over who might play the kinky business magnate and his paramour, though casting details have stubbornly refused to emerge.
(12) A romp through the kinky silliness that’ll be marketed at our grown grandchildren, their poor glazed eyes consensually replaced with tiny computers.
(13) These studies were designed to determine if macular mutant mouse, which is a proposed animal model of Menkes' kinky-hair disease, is sensitive to the acute toxic effect of Cu as compared to normal and heterozygote mice.
(14) These results were compared with those obtained after endoscopic treatment at Kinki University.
(15) The mutations on chromosome 17 we tested included brachyury (T), hairpin tail (Thp), kinky (Fuki), quaking (qk), tufted (tf), as well as tct (t complex tail interaction), and tcl (t complex lethal) that are specific to t haplotypes.
(16) It is most remarkable that the patient's hair was not unusual, in contrast to the previously reported cases who had "kinky hair".
(17) Thalamic degeneration was present in 5 autopsied cases of X-chromosome-linked copper malabsorption (X-cLCM), Menkes' kinky hair disease.
(18) These were the highest in the Chubu area followed by the Kanto and Kinki areas.
(19) A 30-month-old infant with Menkes kinky-hair disease died, with prominent vascular, cerebral and cerebellar degeneration.
(20) Ejiofor, the British star of Dirty Pretty Things and Kinky Boots , also portrays a slave in the forthcoming Annette Haywood-Carter drama Savannah.