crimp – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: angularity,
angular shape,
abductor,
snatcher,
kidnaper,
kidnapper,
lock,
ringlet,
whorl,
curl,
fold up,
fold,
turn up,
wave
crimp
n.
tight hair wave or curl; act of folding or other action that crimps something; hindrance, person or something that hinders or otherwise interferes with somebody or something else; crease or fold which is made by pinching together two edges (i.e.: fabric or pastry)
v.
frill; corrugate; mold into shape; make wavy; inhibit
Crimp
Crimp(ing) may refer to:
- Crimp (climbing), a small hold with little surface area
- Crimp (gambling), a bent corner of a card to facilitate cheating
- Crimp (joining), a deformity in metal used to make a join
- Crimp (recruitment) or shanghaiing, to shanghai or conscript men as sailors
- A style of song in the British comedy series The Mighty Boosh (TV series)
- Crimp (wool), the number of bends per unit of length
- Crimp connection (electronics), a type of solderless connection
- Crimping pliers, tools for squeezing things together
- Grain crimping, an organic way to preserve feed grain
- Hair crimping, a method of styling hair
- Staple remover, also known as a "crimper"
- Crimp, Cornwall, a hamlet in England
crimp
Noun
1. an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow"
(synonym) fold, crease, plication, flexure, bend
(hypernym) angular shape, angularity
(hyponym) pleat, plait
(derivation) pinch
2. someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
(synonym) crimper
(hypernym) kidnapper, abductor, snatcher
3. a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
(hypernym) lock, curl, ringlet, whorl
(hyponym) pin curl
(derivation) crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink
Verb
1. make ridges into by pinching together
(synonym) pinch
(hypernym) fold, fold up, turn up
(hyponym) flute
(derivation) fold, crease, plication, flexure, bend
2. curl tightly; "crimp hair"
(synonym) crape, frizzle, frizz, kink up, kink
(hypernym) curl, wave
Crimp
(v. t.)
To pinch and hold; to seize.
(v. t.)
To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that the material will retain the shape intended; to give a wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
(v. t.)
to entrap into the military or naval service; as, to crimp seamen.
(v. t.)
To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
(n.)
One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
(n.)
Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
(n.)
A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
(n.)
A game at cards.
(n.)
A coal broker.
(a.)
Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
(a.)
Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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adj.
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