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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: crisp - critic</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="crisp"> crisp, adjective, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. hard and thin; breaking easily with a snap. Ex. Dry toast and fresh celery are crisp. (SYN) brittle. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) sharp and clear: <DD> a. fresh; bracing. Ex. The air was cool and crisp. <DD> b. short and decided; clear-cut. Ex. "Don't talk; fight," was his crisp answer. Hemingway wrote stories in a crisp style. (SYN) decisive. <DD> 3. (Figurative.) <DD> a. brisk; animated. Ex. a crisp manner. <DD> b. lively or sparkling. Ex. crisp conversation. <DD> 4. neat; clean-cut. Ex. crisp clothes. <DD> 5. curly and wiry. Ex. crisp hair. <DD> 6. rippled; wrinkled; undulating. Ex. crisp waves. <DD>v.t., v.i. to make or become crisp. Ex. Crisp the lettuce in cold water. <DD>noun 1. something crisp. <DD> 2. (British.) a thin slice of potato fried until crisp; potato chip. <DD> 3. (Dialect.) crackling (def. 2). adv. crisply. noun crispness. </DL> <A NAME="crispate"> crispate, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> crisped or curled. </DL> <A NAME="crispated"> crispated, adjective. =crispate.</DL> <A NAME="crispattion"> crispattion, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a curling or being curled. <DD> 2. a slight contraction of a part, as of skin. </DL> <A NAME="crisper"> crisper, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that crisps: <DD> a. a drawer in a refrigerator in which fruits and vegetables are stored to keep crisp. <DD> b. =curling iron. </DL> <A NAME="crispin"> Crispin, noun. =shoemaker.</DL> <A NAME="crispy"> crispy, adjective, crispier, crispiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> crisp. Ex. We might have whitebait fried in deep fat, crispy and ... hot (Atlantic). noun crispiness. </DL> <A NAME="crissal"> crissal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the crissum. </DL> <A NAME="crisscross"> crisscross, verb, adjective, adverb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to mark or cover with crossed lines. Ex. Little cracks crisscrossed the wall. <DD> 2. to come and go across; move or pass back and forth. Ex. Buses and cars crisscross the city. <DD>v.i. to come and go; move back and forth. <DD>adj. made or marked with crossed lines; crossing. Ex. Plaids have a crisscross pattern. <DD>adv. 1. =crosswise. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) awry; askew. <DD>noun 1. a mark or pattern made of crossed lines. Ex. His messy paper was a crisscross of lines. <DD> 2. the game of tick-tack-toe. <DD> 3. =christcross. </DL> <A NAME="crisscrossrow"> crisscross-row, noun. =christcross-row.</DL> <A NAME="crissum"> crissum, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the area surrounding the cloacal opening of a bird. <DD> 2. the feathers of this area. </DL> <A NAME="crista"> crista, noun, pl. -tae.<DL COMPACT><DD> a ridge or other crestlike process, such as the elevated sensory area in the wall of the ampulla of a semicircular canal. </DL> <A NAME="cristae"> cristae, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. plural of crista. <DD> 2. lamellar folds of the inner membrane of mitochondria, on which most of the respiratory enzymes are situated. </DL> <A NAME="cristate"> cristate, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having a crest; crested. <DD> 2. forming a crest. </DL> <A NAME="cristated"> cristated, adjective. =cristate.</DL> <A NAME="cristobalite"> cristobalite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> silica occurring in small octahedral crystals as a high-temperature modification of quartz. </DL> <A NAME="crit"> crit.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. critical. <DD> 2. criticism. <DD> 3. criticized. </DL> <A NAME="criteria"> criteria, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plural of criterion. </DL> <A NAME="criteriology"> criteriology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the doctrine of criteria or standards of judgment. </DL> <A NAME="criterion"> criterion, noun, pl. -ria or -rions.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rule or standard for making a judgment; test. Ex. The ultimate criterion of a good education is what the student gets out of it (Newsweek). (SYN) measure, touchstone, yardstick. </DL> <A NAME="crith"> crith, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the weight of one liter of hydrogen at standard pressure and temperature, used as a unit of weight for gases. </DL> <A NAME="critic"> critic, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1a. a person who makes judgments of the merits and faults of books, music, pictures, plays, acting, or other works of literature or art. Many critics write upon their subject as a profession. Ex. We read what the critics in the newspapers had to say about the new play to find out if it was worth seeing. <DD> b. a person who judges the suitability or quality of anything. <DD> 2. a person who disapproves or finds fault; faultfinder. Ex. She was such a constant critic that the other girls did not like her. (SYN) caviler, censurer, carper. <DD> 3. (Obsolete.) criticism. <DD> 4. (Obsolete.) a critical notice or review; critique. </DL> <A HREF="critical.dic">NEXT</A>