crisp

1. Senses relating to brittleness.

   (transitive)To make (something) firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), to give (food) a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.

   to crisp bacon by frying it

   c. 1752, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifry, Leeds: James Lister, “To make Hare Soop,” p. 6, […] put it into a Dish, with a little stew’d Spinage, crisp’d Bread, and a few forc’d-meat Balls.

2. (dated, figuratively, transitive)To add small amounts of colour to (something); to tinge, to tint.

3. (intransitive)To become firm yet brittle; specifically (cooking), of food: to form a crispy surface through frying, grilling, or roasting.

   to put celery into ice water to crisp

4. (dated, intransitive)To make a sharp crackling or crunching sound.

   1915, Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), “A Dish of Macaroni” in Off Sandy Hook, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, p. 39, […] her light footsteps and crisping draperies retreated along the passage,

5. Senses relating to curliness.

   (dated, transitive)To curl (something, such as fabric) into tight, stiff folds or waves; to crimp, to crinkle; specifically, to form (hair) into tight curls or ringlets.

   1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, 2 Chronicles 4.5, […] the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice, or of a crisped lilie:

   1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, “The Description of Elizium,” The fift Nimphall, p. 44, The Louer with the Myrtle Sprayes Adornes his crisped Tresses:

6. (dated, figuratively, transitive)To cause (a body of water) to undulate irregularly; to ripple.

   1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, London: John Murray, stanza 53, p. 29, I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;

7. (dated, figuratively, transitive)To twist or wrinkle (a body part).

8. (UK, dated, dialectal, transitive)To fold (newly woven cloth).

9. (dated, intransitive)To become curled into tight, stiff folds or waves.

10. (dated, figuratively, intransitive)Of a body of water: to ripple, to undulate.

    1832, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters,” Choric Song, V., in Poems, London: Moxon, p. 114, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray:

11. (dated, figuratively, intransitive)Of a body part: to become twisted or wrinkled.

1. I ate some crisps.

   ruЯ поел немного картофельных чипсов. — odexed

   deIch habe Chips gegessen. — Hime

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2. Emily bought a packet of crisps.

   Емілі купила пакетик чіпсів. — deniko

   ruЭмили купила пакетик чипсов. — odexed

   deEmilie hat sich eine Tüte Kartoffelchips gekauft. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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3. I made my own potato crisps.

   Я зробив собі картопляні чіпси. — deniko

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4. Help yourself to more potato crisps.

   Візьми ще чіпсів. — deniko

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5. Tom ate half a bag of potato crisps.

   Том з'їв півпачки картопляних чипсів. — deniko

   deTom hat eine halbe Tüte Chips gegessen. — Waldelfe

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