crispness
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crisp
(krĭsp)adj. crisp·er, crisp·est
1. Firm but easily broken or crumbled; brittle: crisp potato chips.
2. Pleasingly firm and fresh: crisp carrot and celery sticks.
3.
a. Bracing; invigorating: crisp mountain air.
b. Lively; sprightly: music with a crisp rhythm.
4. Conspicuously clean or new: a crisp dollar bill.
5. Marked by clarity, conciseness, and briskness: a crisp reply.
6. Having small curls, waves, or ripples. Used of hair.
v. crisped, crisp·ing, crisps
v.tr.
To make or keep crisp.
v.intr.
To become or remain crisp.
n.
1. Something crisp or easily crumbled: The roast was burned to a crisp.
2. A dessert of fruit baked with a sweet crumbly topping: apple crisp.
3. Chiefly British A potato chip.
crisp′ly adv.
crisp′ness n.
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Noun | 1. | crispness - a pleasing firmness and freshness; "crispness of new dollar bills"; "crispness of fresh lettuce" freshness - the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated; "she loved the freshness of newly baked bread"; "the freshness of the air revived him" |
2. | crispness - an expressive style that is direct and to the point; "the crispness of his reply" terseness - a neatly short and concise expressive style | |
3. | crispness - firm but easily broken breakableness - the consistency of something that breaks under pressure flakiness - having or breaking into thin crisp flakes |
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Translations
هَـشاشَه، نَـضارة، حَزْم
chřupavostkřehkostráznost
friskhedsprødhed
ropogósság
hreinleiki; skÿrleiki
gevrekliktazelik
crispness
[ˈkrɪspnɪs] N1. (= crunchiness) [of lettuce, salad] → frescura f; [of apple, snow, bacon] → lo crujiente; [of linen] → lo almidonado
2. (= coldness, clarity) [of air] → lo vivificante, lo vigorizante; [of weather] → lo frío y despejado
3. (= sharpness) [of voice, sound, image] → nitidez f
4. (= briskness) [of tone, reply] → sequedad f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
crispness
n (of apple, lettuce) → Knackigkeit f, → Festheit f; (of bread, biscuits, bacon) → Knusprigkeit f; (of snow) → Verharschtheit f; (of leaves) → Trockenheit f; (of clothes) → Steifheit f; (of manner, voice, style of writing) → Knappheit f; (of air, weather) → Frische f; (of sound) → Klarheit f; (Sport, of shot) → Sauberkeit f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
crispness
[ˈkrɪspnɪs] n (of bacon, biscuit, snow) → friabilità; (of linen) → freschezza; (of apple) → sodezza; (of style) → vivacitàI like the crispness of new banknotes → mi piace toccare le banconote nuove di zecca
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
crisp
(krisp) adjective1. stiff and dry enough to break easily. crisp biscuits.
2. (of vegetables etc) firm and fresh. a crisp lettuce.
3. (of manner, speech etc) firm and clear.
noun short for potato crisp.
ˈcrisply adverbˈcrispness noun
ˈcrispy adjective
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