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.

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.

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.

[Middle English, curly, from Old English, from Latin crispus; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

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 brittleness, crispiness breakableness - the consistency of something that breaks under pressure flakiness - having or breaking into thin crisp flakes

Translations

هَـشاشَه، نَـضارة، حَزْم

chřupavostkřehkostráznost

friskhedsprødhed

Frische Knusprigkeit

ropogósság

hreinleiki; skÿrleiki

freschezza friabilit...

korthet

кованость

gevrekliktazelik

脆

crispness

[ˈkrɪspnɪs] N

1. (= 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

crispness

[ˈkrɪspnɪs] n [apple, lettuce] → croquant m; [pastry] → croustillant m

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) → vivacità
I like the crispness of new banknotes → mi piace toccare le banconote nuove di zecca

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

crisp

(krisp) adjective

1. 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 adverb

ˈcrispness noun

ˈcrispy adjective

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Her visitor, settled on a small sofa that, with a palm-tree, a screen, a stool, a stand, a bowl of flowers and three photographs in silver frames, had been arranged near the light wood-fire as a choice "corner"--Maud Blessingbourne, her guest, turned audibly, though at intervals neither brief nor regular, the leaves of a book covered in lemon-coloured paper and not yet despoiled of a certain fresh crispness. This effect of the volume, for the eye, would have made it, as presumably the newest French novel--and evidently, from the attitude of the reader, "good"--consort happily with the special tone of the room, a consistent air of selection and suppression, one of the finer aesthetic evolutions.

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The benches were not filled; for park loungers, with their stagnant blood, are prompt to detect and fly home from the crispness of early autumn.

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"Very well." Marilla's crispness gave no sign of her relief.

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The very barristers' wigs are ill-powdered, and their curls lack crispness.

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When the weather was wet, he put up his umbrella over his stock in trade, not over himself; when the weather was dry, he furled that faded article, tied it round with a piece of yarn, and laid it cross-wise under the trestles: where it looked like an unwholesomely-forced lettuce that had lost in colour and crispness what it had gained in size.

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The BSO are a young, alert bunch, principal conductor Lior Shambadal drawing markedly brisk playing from them and relying upon crispness and textural clarity to convey the essence of the works under consideration.

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FRESH HERBS AND greens burst into brilliant color and brittle crispness in the company of hot oil.

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This version, however, retains lovely lime-centred crispness and merges it agreeably with pithy grapefruit depth and hints of tropical fruit.

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