Crisp vs Null - What's the difference?
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(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
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between crisp and null
is that crisp is (british) a thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective crisp
is (of something seen or heard) sharp, clearly defined.As a verb crisp
is to make crisp.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.
Derived terms
* crispen * crisperAnagrams
* *null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.