Crisp vs Fries - What's the difference?
crisp | fries |
(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
As nouns the difference between crisp and fries
is that crisp is a thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack while fries is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.As verbs the difference between crisp and fries
is that crisp is to make crisp while fries is third-person singular of fry.As an adjective crisp
is sharp, clearly defined.crisp
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.
