crystal
see also: Crystal
Pronunciation Noun
Crystal
Proper noun
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see also: Crystal
Pronunciation Noun
crystal
- (countable) A solid composed of an array of atoms or molecules possessing long-range order and arranged in a pattern which is periodic in three dimensions.
- (countable) A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
- (uncountable) A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
- (uncountable, slang) Crystal meth: methamphetamine hydrochloride.
- The glass over the dial of a watch case.
- (array of atoms) grain
- French: cristal
- German: Kristall
- Italian: cristallo
- Portuguese: cristal
- Russian: криста́лл
- Spanish: cristal
- French: cristal
- German: Kristall
- Italian: cristallo
- Portuguese: cristal
- Russian: хруста́ль
- Spanish: cristal
- German: Kristallglas, Kristall
- Portuguese: cristal
- Russian: хруста́ль
- Spanish: cristal
- French: de cristal, en cristal
- Russian: криста́льно
crystal (not comparable)
- Very clear.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i], page 23 ↗, column 1–2:
- Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant;
Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue,
Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie,
The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:
- "Do I make myself clear?" / "Crystal."
Crystal
Proper noun
- A female given name.
- 2000 Barbara Kingsolver: Prodigal Summer. HarperCollins 2000. ISBN 0 571 20638 7 pages 121, 298:
- "Crystal's pretty. The name, I mean."
- Jewel shook her head. "It doesn't look like her. She looks like Beaver Cleaver." […]
- Crys chuckled. For the first time since she'd planted herself fiercely on Lusa's driveway that morning she sounded clear and transparent, like a child. Like the crystal she was.
- 2004 Jonathan Kellerman: Therapy ISBN 0 7553 0736 4 page 335:
- "No prob. I'm wired, anyway...Christa or Crystal. Why'd Kayla peg her for a stripper?"
- "Because Gavin said she was a dancer," I said.
- "Well," he said, "name a girl Crystal and what's more likely? That she'll get a Ph.D. in biomechanics, or end up shaking her tail for tips?"
- 2000 Barbara Kingsolver: Prodigal Summer. HarperCollins 2000. ISBN 0 571 20638 7 pages 121, 298:
- Surname
- A ghost town in Colorado.
- A town in Maine.
- A city in Minnesota.
- CDP in New Mexico.
- A city/and/town in North Dakota.
- A town in Wisconsin.
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