crystal
nounEtymology
From Middle English crystal, cristal, criȝstall, representing a merger of Old English cristalla (from Latin crystallus) and Anglo-Norman cristall, Old French cristal (from Latin crystallum). The Latin is derived from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “clear ice”), from κρύος (krúos, “frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krews- (“hard, hard outer surface, crust”).
Definitions
A solid composed of an array of atoms or molecules possessing long-range order and…
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.
A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
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Crystal meth
Crystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride.
- He tells me he's been shooting crystal, which I already pretty much know because he does not bother to keep his sleeves rolled down over the needle tracks.
A person's eye.
- Come, let's away. My loue, giue me thy Lippes: Looke to my Chattels, and my Moueables: [...] Goe, cleare they Chryſtalls. Yokefellowes in Armes, let vs to France
The glass over the dial of a watch case.
Made of crystal.
- Its ceiling was crystal, around on the wall / Thickly studded were rubies and diamonds rare; / But purer than crystal, and brighter than all / Of the jewels adorning her glittering hall, / Was the mermaiden languishing there.
- The walls were crystal, and they seemed to have hundreds of different-colored lights shifting behind them.
- The uneven floor was crystal as well, as if there once had been huge crystals jutting up here, too, but ones that had been broken away and the surface crudely adzed.
Very clear
Very clear; coherent.
- "Do I make myself clear?" / "Crystal."
- […] the more faire and chriſtall is the skie, The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye: […]
A female given name from English.
- Crystal just stood there with a semisad look on her face.
A surname.
- In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them.
A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
A town in Maine.
A city in Minnesota.
A census-designated place in New Mexico.
A city and town in North Dakota.
A town in Wisconsin.
The neighborhood
- synonymcrystalline
Derived
anticrystal, bicrystal, biocrystal, blood crystal, Charcot-Leyden crystal, cheese crystal, clear as crystal, cocrystal, compound crystal, crystal ball, crystal cell, Crystal City, crystal class, crystal clear, crystal-clear, Crystal Creek, crystal dick, Crystal Falls, crystal field theory, crystal gazer, crystal-gazer, crystal-gazing, crystal habit, crystal healing, crystal jelly, crystallant, crystal lattice, crystalliferous, crystal-like, crystallin, crystalline, crystallite, crystallization, crystallisation, crystallize, crystallise, crystallographer, crystallographic defect, crystallography, crystalloid · +66 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at crystal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at crystal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at crystal
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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