Chill vs Crisp - What's the difference?
chill | crisp | Synonyms |
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
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An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
Moderately cold or chilly.
* Milton
(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also : chill out.
(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
(metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
To become cold.
(metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
(slang) To relax, lie back.
(slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out .
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
(of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
* This new television set has a very crisp image.
(dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
(obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
* Shakespeare
Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
* Goldsmith
Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
* Leigh Hunt
Of weather, air etc.: dry and cold.
Quick and accurate.
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Brief and to the point. (Esp. in make it crisp .)
* It is better to understand the question clearly, pause for a little thinking and give a crisp answer.
* If we ask an expert about a certain query, this expert will often come up with a crisp answer (“yes” or “no”).
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(obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
* Charles Dickens
Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
To make crisp.
To become crisp.
(dated) To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.
(archaic) To undulate or ripple.
* Tennyson
(archaic) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple.
* Drayton
* Milton
Chill is a synonym of crisp.
As an abbreviation chill
is (computing) an acronym for ccitt high level language.As an adjective crisp is
(of something seen or heard) sharp, clearly defined.As a noun crisp is
(british) a thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.As a verb crisp is
to make crisp.chill
English
Noun
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A chill wind was blowing down the street.
- Noisome winds, and blasting vapours chill .
- I'm pretty chill most of the time.
- Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
- That new movie was chill , man.
Verb
(en verb)- Chill before serving.
- In the wind he chilled quickly.
- Chill , man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
- The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
- Hey, we should chill this weekend.
- On Friday night do you wanna chill?
Derived terms
* chillax * chilliness * chilling * chilling effect * chill out / chillout * chill pill * chilly * libel chill * send chills / cast a chillReferences
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English
Adjective
(er)- crisp hair
- You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks Leave your crisp channels.
- The crisp snow crunched underfoot.
- The cakes at tea ate short and crisp .
- It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years.
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- your neat crisp claret
- the snug, small room, and the crisp fire
Derived terms
* crisply * crispness * crispySynonyms
* (US) potato chip, potato crisp.Verb
(en verb)- to crisp bacon by frying it
- to watch the crisping ripples on the beach
- The lover with the myrtle sprays / Adorns his crisped tresses.
- The crisped brooks, / Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold.