crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krĭsʹtəl
ipa: /ˈkɹɪstəl/
rhymes: -ɪstəl
Forms: form: crystals
form: christal
form: christall
form: chrystal
form: chrystall
form: cristal
form: cristall
form: crystall
Etymology: From Middle English crystal, cristal, criȝstall, from Old English cristalla (“crystal”), a borrowing from Latin crystallum (“crystal, ice”) (later reinforced from Anglo-Norman cristall and Middle French cristal, from Latin crystallum), from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “clear ice”), from κρύος (krúos, “frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krews- (“hard, hard outer surface, crust”).
Senses: synonyms: grain
antonyms: glass
glosses: 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.
glosses: A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
glosses: A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
glosses: Crystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride.
examples: text: 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
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 75, column 2:
english: Come, let's away. My love, kiss me. Look after my goods and property … Go, dry your eyes. Comrades in arms, let us to France
translation: Come, let's away. My love, kiss me. Look after my goods and property … Go, dry your eyes. Comrades in arms, let us to France
glosses: A person's eye.
glosses: The glass over the dial of a watch case.
Derived terms: 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 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
crystallography
crystalloid
crystalluria
crystally
crystal magick
crystal methamphetamine
crystal momentum
crystal oven
Crystal Palace
crystal radio
crystal radio receiver
Crystal River
crystal set
crystal sphere
crystal stone
crystal system
crystalturbation
crystal twinning
crystal violet
crystalware
crystalwort
ferroelectric crystal
ferroelectric liquid-crystal display
hopper crystal
ice crystal
Iceland crystal
intracrystal
ionic crystal
isocrystal
lead crystal
liquid crystal
liquid crystal display
macrocrystal
mesocrystal
metacrystal
microcrystal
monocrystal
mountain crystal
multicrystal
nanocrystal
negative crystal
noncrystal
paracrystal
phononic crystal
photonic crystal
polycrystal
positive crystal
pseudocrystal
quartz crystal
quartz-crystal clock
quasicrystal
quasi-crystal
rock crystal
seed crystal
semicrystal
single crystal
sonocrystal
space-time crystal
spherocrystal
supracrystal
thorn-apple crystal
time crystal
tricrystal
twin crystal
Wigner crystal
xenocrystal