crimp
A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint…A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
» The chip shortage has crimped the world’s ability to produce automobiles.
Значення
значень: 9A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.
обжи́мobžím
The natural curliness of wool fibres.
(зазвичай у множині)Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
A small hold with little surface area.
A grip on such a hold.
An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
(конкретно)One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
(застаріле)A card game.
(застаріле)A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
- a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
- someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
Приклади
речень: 3The chip shortage has crimped the world’s ability to produce automobiles.
I crimped a ferrule around the end of the stranded brake cable to prevent it from fraying.
Devaluing the currency also means that prices rise for consumers, and it tends to crimp consumer spending.
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мов: 2За значеннями 1
Походження
From Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch criFrom Middle English crimpen (“to be contracted, be drawn together”), from Middle Dutch crimpen, crempen (“to crimp”), from Proto-Germanic *krimpaną (“to shrink, draw back”) (compare related Old English ġecrympan (“to curl”)). Cognate with Dutch krimpen, German Low German krimpen, Faroese kreppa (“crisis”), and Icelandic kreppa (“to bend tightly, clench”). Compare also derivative Middle English crymplen (“to wrinkle”) and causative crempen (“to turn something back, restrain”, literally “to cause to shrink or draw back”), both ultimately derived from the same root. See also cramp.
Uncertain. Likely from etymology 1, above, but the historical development is not clear. Attested since the seventeenth century.
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