crystal
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: crystals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: christal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: christall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chrystal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chrystall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cristal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cristall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: crystall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: xtal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: christal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: christall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chrystal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chrystall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cristal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cristall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: crystall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: xtal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Crystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A person's eye.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
obsolete
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: 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
gloss: The glass over the dial of a watch case.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Made of crystal.
pos: adj
tags: literally
not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Very clear; coherent.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: "Do I make myself clear?" / "Crystal."
[…] the more faire and chriſtall is the skie,
The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye: […]
Synonyms: crystalline
Derived words: 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
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
electron crystal
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
Upper Crystal Creek
Wigner crystal
xenocrystal
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بِلَّوْرِيّ
roman: billawriyy
lang: Dutch
word: kristallen
lang: Esperanto
word: kristalo
lang: French
word: de cristal
lang: French
word: en cristal
lang: Georgian
word: ბროლის
roman: brolis
lang: Georgian
word: კრისტალური
roman: ḳrisṭaluri
lang: Khmer
word: ផលិក
roman: phɑɑphɑlək
lang: Latvian
word: kristāla
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: krystall-
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: krystall-
lang: Russian
word: криста́льно
roman: kristálʹno