Crisp

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of hair: curling, especially in tight, stiff curls or ringlets; also (obsolete), of a person: having hair curled in this manner.

   “crisp hair”

2. sıfat Of a body of water, skin, etc.: having a surface which is rippled or wrinkled.

   “[T]hree times did they drinke / Vpon agreement of ſvvift Seuerns floud, / VVho then affrighted vvith their bloudie lookes, / Ran fearefully among the trembling reedes, / And hid his criſpe-head in the hollovv banke, / Bloud-ſtained vvith theſe valiant combatants, […]”

3. sıfat Synonym of crispate (“of a leaf: having curled, notched, or wavy edges”); crisped.

   “Feathered VVater Moſs. Branched. Leaves criſp, feathered, undulated, pointing tvvo vvays.”

4. sıfat Clear; also, shining, or smooth.

   “One whyle hée at my necke dooth ſnatch / Another whyle my cléere criſp legges be ſtriueth for too catch, / Or trippes at mée: and euerywhere the vauntage he dooth watch.”

5. sıfat Having a consistency which is hard yet brittle, and in a condition to break with a sharp fracture; crumbly, friable, short.

   “The crisp snow crunched underfoot.”

6. sıfat Not limp; firm, stiff; not stale or wilted; fresh; also, effervescent, lively.

   “And this piece of laurel is from Vaucluse! […] What an exquisite dry old, vital, young-looking, everlasting twig it is! It has been plucked nine months, and looks as hale and as crisp as if it would last ninety years.”

7. sıfat Of action, movement, a person's manner, etc.: precise and quick; brisk.

   “An expert, given a certain query, will often come up with a crisp answer: “yes” or “no”.”

8. sıfat Of air, weather, etc.: cool and dry; also, of a period of time: characterized by such weather.

   “All these boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it!”

9. sıfat Of fabric, paper, etc.: clean and uncreased.

   “He sat in a small room with benches where Santino had placed him, handed him the crisp, freshly withdrawn fifty-dollar bills, while Santino set about getting a bail bondsman.”

10. sıfat Of something heard or seen: clearly defined; clean, neat, sharp.

    “This new television set has a very crisp image.”

11. sıfat Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
12. sıfat Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
13. isim In full potato crisp: a thin slice of potato which has been deep-fried until it is brittle and crispy, and eaten when cool; they are typically packaged and sold as a snack.

    “Edward, give me another of those delicious olives. / What's that? Potato crisps? No, I can't endure them.”

14. isim Sometimes with a descriptive word: a crispy, savoury snack made of some other ingredient(s) (such as cornmeal or a vegetable) which is baked or deep-fried and eaten like a potato crisp.

    “kale crisps    prawn crisp”

15. isim A type of baked dessert consisting of fruit topped with a crumbly mixture made with fat, flour, and sugar; a crumble.
16. isim A banknote; also, a number of banknotes collectively.
17. isim Chiefly in to a crisp: a food item that has been overcooked, or a thing which has been burned, to the point of becoming charred or dried out.

    “He bears my name—Glendinning. I will disown it; were it like this dress, I would tear my name off from me, and burn it till it shriveled to a crisp!”

18. isim The crispy rind of roast pork; crackling.

    “Alon[zo]. Anon they’l cut off ſlivers from us, as they did from the vvhole Ox, in St. James’s Fair. / Gonz[alo]. Oh, ’tis intollerable: methinks I hear a great ſhe Devil, call for [a] Groats vvorth of the Criſpe of my Countenance.—They are all for Griſtle.”

19. isim A curly lock of hair, especially one which is tightly curled.

    “They are proud, and vveare their hayre pretty long, and about their criſpes vvreath a valuable Shaſh or Tulipant; […]”

20. isim A delicate fabric, possibly resembling crepe, especially used by women for veils or other head coverings in the past; also, a head covering made of this fabric.

    “Vpon her head a ſiluer criſp ſhe pind, / Looſe vvauing on her ſhoulders vvith the vvind.”

21. fiil To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.

    “to crisp bacon by frying it”

22. fiil To add small amounts of colour to (something); to tinge, to tint.

    “It was the form of a man of middle age, the hair white, but the beard only crisped with grey,”

23. fiil To become firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.

    “to put celery into ice water to crisp”

24. fiil To make a sharp crackling or crunching sound.

    “[…] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.”

25. fiil To curl (something, such as fabric) into tight, stiff folds or waves; to crimp, to crinkle; specifically, to form (hair) into tight curls or ringlets.

    “[…] those crisped snaky golden locks / Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,”

26. fiil To cause (a body of water) to undulate irregularly; to ripple.

    “[…] the crisped Brooks, / Rowling on Orient Pearl and sands of Gold”

27. fiil To twist or wrinkle (a body part).

    “Phillotson saw his wife turn and take the note, and the bend of her pretty head as she read it, her lips slightly crisped, to prevent undue expression under fire of so many young eyes.”

28. fiil To fold (newly woven cloth).
29. fiil To become curled into tight, stiff folds or waves.

    “The Sauoie Lettuce hath very large leaues ſpread vpon the grounde, at the firſt comming vp broade, cut, or gaſht about the edges, criſping or curling lightly this or that way, not vnlike to the leaues of garden Endiue, […]”

30. fiil Of a body of water: to ripple, to undulate.

    “1630, Henry Hawkins (translator), Certaine selected epistles of S. Hierome, Saint-Omer: The English College Press, “The Epitaphe of S. Paula,” p. 96, Hitherto we haue sayled with a fore-wind, & our sliding ship hath plowed vp the crisping waues of the Sea at ease.”