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Penetrating vs Crisp - What's the difference?

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Penetrating is a related term of crisp.


As adjectives the difference between penetrating and crisp

is that penetrating is able to pierce or penetrate while crisp is (of something seen or heard) sharp, clearly defined.

As verbs the difference between penetrating and crisp

is that penetrating is while crisp is to make crisp.

As a noun crisp is

(british) a thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.

penetrating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • able to pierce or penetrate
    • The skunk produces a penetrating odor.
  • demonstrating acute or keen understanding
    • His novel shows a penetrating insight into the criminal mind.

    Verb

    (head)

    • crisp

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.
  • * This new television set has a very crisp image.
  • (dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.
    • crisp hair
  • (obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You nymphs called Naiads, of the winding brooks Leave your crisp channels.
  • Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
    • The crisp snow crunched underfoot.
  • * Goldsmith
    • The cakes at tea ate short and crisp .
  • Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition.
  • * Leigh Hunt
    • It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years.
  • Of weather, air etc.: dry and cold.
  • Quick and accurate.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Stephen Ward's crisp finish from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake's pass 11 minutes into the second half proved enough to give Mick McCarthy's men a famous victory.}}
  • 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”).
  • *
  • (obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • your neat crisp claret
  • Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • the snug, small room, and the crisp fire
  • Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.

    • Derived terms

    * crisply * crispness * crispy

    Related terms

    * crispate * crispated * crispation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.

    • Synonyms

    * (US) potato chip, potato crisp.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make crisp.
    • to crisp bacon by frying it
  • 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
    • to watch the crisping ripples on the beach
  • (archaic) To cause to undulate irregularly, as crape or water; to wrinkle; to cause to ripple.
  • * Drayton
    • The lover with the myrtle sprays / Adorns his crisped tresses.
  • * Milton
    • The crisped brooks, / Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold.

    Derived terms

    * crispen * crisper

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