crisper
English
Etymology
crisp + -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪspə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪspɚ/
Adjective
crisper
- comparative form of crisp: more crisp
Noun
crisper (plural crispers)
- A cooled food storage container, used to cool items that do not require complete refrigeration.
- The section of a refrigerator used to store fruit and vegetables at a slightly higher temperature than the rest of the refrigerator.
- An instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth.
- (archaic) A device for crisping or curling the hair.
- 1944, Ladies' Home Journal (volume 61, page 51)
- Now she had washed her hair and set it with those tin crispers to which her brother-in-law had objected, and rolled the ends on metal curlers.
- 1944, Ladies' Home Journal (volume 61, page 51)
Anagrams
- pricers
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crispo, crispare. Cf. crêper, which may be an inherited doublet.
Pronunciation
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Verb
crisper
- (of a muscle) to tense, to tense up
Conjugation
Conjugation of crisper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | crisper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | crispant /kʁis.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | crispé /kʁis.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | crispe /kʁisp/ | crispes /kʁisp/ | crispe /kʁisp/ | crispons /kʁis.pɔ̃/ | crispez /kʁis.pe/ | crispent /kʁisp/ |
| imperfect | crispais /kʁis.pɛ/ | crispais /kʁis.pɛ/ | crispait /kʁis.pɛ/ | crispions /kʁis.pjɔ̃/ | crispiez /kʁis.pje/ | crispaient /kʁis.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | crispai /kʁis.pe/ | crispas /kʁis.pa/ | crispa /kʁis.pa/ | crispâmes /kʁis.pam/ | crispâtes /kʁis.pat/ | crispèrent /kʁis.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | crisperai /kʁis.pə.ʁe/ | crisperas /kʁis.pə.ʁa/ | crispera /kʁis.pə.ʁa/ | crisperons /kʁis.pə.ʁɔ̃/ | crisperez /kʁis.pə.ʁe/ | crisperont /kʁis.pə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | crisperais /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/ | crisperais /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/ | crisperait /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/ | crisperions /kʁis.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ | crisperiez /kʁis.pə.ʁje/ | crisperaient /kʁis.pə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | crispe /kʁisp/ | crispes /kʁisp/ | crispe /kʁisp/ | crispions /kʁis.pjɔ̃/ | crispiez /kʁis.pje/ | crispent /kʁisp/ |
| imperfect2 | crispasse /kʁis.pas/ | crispasses /kʁis.pas/ | crispât /kʁis.pa/ | crispassions /kʁis.pa.sjɔ̃/ | crispassiez /kʁis.pa.sje/ | crispassent /kʁis.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | crispe /kʁisp/ | — | crispons /kʁis.pɔ̃/ | crispez /kʁis.pe/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “crisper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
crīsper
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of crīspō