Definizione monolingua

crimp

crimp (third-person singular simple present crimps, present participle crimping, simple past and past participle crimped)

1. To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

   He crimped the wire in place.

2. To style hair into a crimp.
3. To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwich.

crimp (plural crimps)

1. A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

   The strap was held together by a simple metal crimp.

2. (obsolete) A coal broker. [Provincial England]
3. (obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.
4. (obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
5. (usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
6. (obsolete) A game of cards.

crimp

1. (obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
2. (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

Definizione dizionario crimp

arricciare

Altri significati:

(obsolete) A coal broker. [Provincial England]

An agent making it his business to procure seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by seducing, decoying, entrapping, or impressing them. [Since the passing of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to one who infringes sub-section 1 of this Act, i.e. to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.]

(obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

(obsolete): Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

(food) To join the edges of food products. For example: Cornish pasty, pies, jiaozi, Jamaican patty, and sealed crustless sandwich.

(usually in the plural) A hairstyle which has been crimped, or shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.

To style hair into a crimp.

(obsolete) One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval service.

(obsolete): Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.

To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.

(obsolete) A game of cards.

To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.