different between cool vs crisp

English

Alternative forms

• (slang) c00l, coo, k00l, kewl, kool, qewl, qool

Pronunciation

• enPR: ko?ol, IPA^(key): /ku?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English cool, from Old English c?l (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *k?l(?), from Proto-Germanic *k?laz, *k?luz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)

2. Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.

   Synonym: chilly

   Antonyms: lukewarm, tepid, warm
3. Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
4. Of a color, in the range of violet to green.

   Antonym: warm

5. Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.

   Synonyms: distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional

   Antonym: passionate

6. Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.

   Antonym: warm

7. Calmly audacious.
8. Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

   • Who will lend me a cool hundred.

   • 1900, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Transmigration

     You remember Bulger, don't you? You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?

   • 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:

     My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.

9. (informal) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.

   Antonyms: awkward, uncool
10. (informal) In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.

    Synonyms: à la mode, fashionable, in fashion, modish, stylish, happening, hip, in, trendy

    Antonyms: démodé, old hat, out, out of fashion

    • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii

      The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.

11. (informal) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.

    Synonyms: acceptable, all right, OK

    Antonyms: (UK) not cricket, not on, unacceptable

12. (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.

    Synonyms: easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed

    Antonyms: bothered, upset

13. Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Chinese: ?
• ? Dutch: cool
• ? French: cool
• ? German: cool
• ? Polish: cool
• ? Spanish: cool
• ? Swedish: cool

Translations

Noun

cool (uncountable)

1. A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.

   in the cool of the morning

2. A calm temperament.

   Synonyms: calmness, composure

3. The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English colen, from Old English c?lian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *k?l?n (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”). Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English c?lan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-Germanic *k?lijan? (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.

Verb

cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)

1. (intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.

   I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.

2. (transitive) To make cooler, less warm.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

   Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.

4. (transitive) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
5. (transitive) To kill.
   • 1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)

     Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• cool in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• cool at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Colo, Colo., colo, colo-, loco

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of koel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku(?)l/
• Hyphenation: cool
• Rhymes: -ul
• Homophone: koel

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)

1. cool, fashionable

Inflection

French

Etymology

From English cool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kul/
• Homophones: coule, coules, coulent

Adjective

cool (invariable)

1. cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)

   Les jeunes sont cool.

   Young people are cool.

   Les jeunes boivent de l'alcool pour être cool.

   Young people drink alcohol to be cool.

Interjection

cool

1. cool! great!

Anagrams

• looc

German

Etymology

From English cool, from Proto-Germanic *k?laz. Doublet of kühl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ku?l]

Adjective

cool (comparative cooler, superlative am coolsten)

1. (colloquial) cool (in its informal senses)

   Synonyms: brilliant, genial, geil
2. (colloquial) cool, calm, easy-going

   Synonyms: lässig, ruhig

Declension

Further reading

• “cool” in Duden online

Polish

Etymology

From English cool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kul/

Adjective

cool (not comparable)

1. (slang) cool (in its informal senses)

   Synonyms: ?wietny, wspania?y, znakomity

Declension

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• cool in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cool in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kul/, [?kul]

Adjective

cool (plural cools or cool)

1. cool (in its informal sense)

Anagrams

• loco

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?l/

Adjective

cool (comparative coolare, superlative coolast)

1. cool! great!

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English crisp (“curly”), from Old English crisp (“curly”), from Latin crispus (“curly”). Doublet of crêpe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??sp/
• Rhymes: -?sp

Adjective

crisp (comparative crisper, superlative crispest)

1. (of something seen or heard) Sharp, clearly defined.

2. Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.

   • The cakes at tea ate short and crisp.

3. Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
   • 1820, Leigh Hunt, The Indicator

     It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and as crisp as if it would last ninety years.

4. (of weather, air etc.) Dry and cold.
5. (of movement, action etc.) Quick and accurate.
6. (of talk, text, etc.) Brief and to the point.
   • 1999, John Hampton, Lisa Emerson, Writing Guidelines for Postgraduate Science Students (page 130)

     Another way of writing the last example is 'She brought along her favourite food which is chocolate cake' but this is less concise: colons can give your writing lean, crisp style.
7. (of wine) having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
8. (obsolete) Lively; sparking; effervescing.

   • your neat crisp claret

9. (dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.

10. (obsolete) Curled by the ripple of water.
11. (computing theory) Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.

Derived terms

• crispen
• crisply
• crispness
• crispy
• uncrisp

Related terms

• crispate
• crispated
• crispation

Translations

Noun

crisp (plural crisps)

1. (Britain) A thin slice of fried potato eaten as a snack.
2. A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping

   Synonyms: crumble, crunch

3. (food) Anything baked or fried and eaten as a snack

Synonyms

• (thin slice of fried potato, Canada, US): chip, potato chip

Translations

Verb

crisp (third-person singular simple present crisps, present participle crisping, simple past and past participle crisped)

1. (transitive) To make crisp.

   Synonym: crispen

   • c. 1752, Elizabeth Moxon, English Housewifry, Leeds: James Lister, “To make Hare Soop,” p. 6,^[2]

     […] put it into a Dish, with a little stew’d Spinage, crisp’d Bread, and a few forc’d-meat Balls.

   • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, Chapter 17, p. 230,^[3]

     Eliza was fretful at his absences, and brought him his dinner crisped and dried from its long heating in the oven.

2. (intransitive) To become crisp.

   Synonym: crispen

   • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Letting in the Jungle” in The Second Jungle Book, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, p. 79,^[4]

     The dew is dried that drenched our hide

     Or washed about our way;

     And where we drank, the puddled bank

     Is crisping into clay.

   • 2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering, New York: Black Cat, Chapter 24, p. 154,^[5]

     Her hair feels fake, like a wig, but I think it is just crisping up under the dye and Frizz-Ease.

   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, New York: HarperCollins, Part 4, Chapter 2,

     […] the flick of the wrist with which one rolls the half-set wafer on to the handle of a wooden spoon and then flips it on to the drying rack to crisp.

3. (transitive, dated) To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair).
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,^[6]

     […] those crisped snaky golden locks

     Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,

   • 1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, 2 Chronicles 4.5,^[7]

     […] the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice, or of a crisped lilie:

   • 1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, “The Description of Elizium,” The fift Nimphall, p. 44,^[8]

     The Louer with the Myrtle Sprayes

     Adornes his crisped Tresses:

   • 1800, Thomas Pennant, The View of Hindoostan, London: Henry Hughs, Volume 3, “China,” p. 172,^[9]

     […] the well known rhubarb of our gardens, with roundish crisped leaves.

   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, London: Macmillan, Chapter 7, p. 176,^[10]

     The mere story of their adventures […] on their road to and from school would have crisped a Western boy’s hair.

4. (intransitive, dated) To become curled.
   • 1597, John Gerard, The herball or, Generall historie of plantes, London: John Norton, Chapter 34, p. 239,^[11]

     The Sauoie Lettuce hath very large leaues spread vpon the grounde, at the first comming vp broade, cut, or gasht about the edges, crisping or curling lightly this or that way, not vnlike to the leaues of garden Endiue […]

   • 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down, New York: Scribner, 1996, Chapter 50, p. 417,^[12]

     […] a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal

5. (transitive, dated) To cause to undulate irregularly (of water); to cause to ripple.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 237-238,^[13]

     […] the crisped Brooks,

     Rowling on Orient Pearl and sands of Gold

   • 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, London: John Murray, stanza 53, p. 29,^[14]

     I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream

     Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;

   • 1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume 5, London: Smith, Elder, Part 9, Chapter 1, § 14, p. 204,^[15]

     […] when the breeze crisps the pool, you may see the image of the breakers, and a likeness of the foam.

   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York: Huebsch, 1921, Chapter 4, p. 194,^[16]

     […] he saw a flying squall darkening and crisping suddenly the tide.

6. (intransitive, dated) To undulate or ripple.
   • 1630, Henry Hawkins (translator), Certaine selected epistles of S. Hierome, Saint-Omer: The English College Press, “The Epitaphe of S. Paula,” p. 96,^[17]

     Hitherto we haue sayled with a fore-wind, & our sliding ship hath plowed vp the crisping waues of the Sea at ease.

   • 1832, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters,” Choric Song, V., in Poems, London: Moxon, p. 114,^[18]

     To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,

     And tender curving lines of creamy spray:

   • 1908, Helen Keller, “The Seeing Hand” in The World I Live In, New York: The Century Co., p. 11,^[19]

     […] the quick yielding of the waves that crisp and curl and ripple about my body.

7. (transitive, dated) To wrinkle, contort or tense (a part of one's body).
   • 1741, Alexander Pope, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, Dublin: George Faulkner, Chapter 10, p. 82,^[20]

     […] he consider’d what an infinity of Muscles these laughing Rascals threw into a convulsive motion at the same time; whether we regard the spasms of the Diaphragm and all the muscles of respiration, the horrible rictus of the mouth, the distortion of the lower jaw, the crisping of the nose, twinkling of the eyes, or sphaerical convexity of the cheeks, with the tremulous succussion of the whole human body:

   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, New York: Harper, 1896, Part 4, Chapter 3, p. 266,^[21]

     Phillotson saw his wife turn and take the note, and the bend of her pretty head as she read it, her lips slightly crisped, to prevent undue expression under fire of so many young eyes.

   • 1914, Frank Norris, Vandover and the Brute, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 15, p. 242-243,^[22]

     […] a slow torsion and crisping of all his nerves, beginning at his ankles, spread to every corner of his body till he had to shut his fists and teeth against the blind impulse to leap from his bed screaming.

   • 1915, John Galsworthy, The Freelands, London: Heinemann, Chapter 27, p. 252,^[23]

     Ah, here was a fellow coming! And instinctively he crisped his hands that were buried in his pockets, and ran over to himself his opening words.

   • 1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Scribner,^[24]

     They [the shark’s teeth] were shaped like a man’s fingers when they are crisped like claws.

8. (intransitive, dated) To become contorted or tensed (of a part of the body).
   • 1935, Edgar Wallace and Robert G. Curtis, The Man Who Changed His Name, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 10,^[25]

     […] she gave no sign of the wave of repugnance that swept over her except that her fingers suddenly crisped.

9. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To interweave (of the branches of trees).
   • 1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, Open Road Media, 2012, Book 2,^[26]

     […] the hot pavement by the playing field where the trees crisp together.

10. (intransitive, dated) To make a sharp or harsh sound.

    Synonyms: creak, crunch, crackle, rustle

    • 1860, George Tolstoy (translator), “The Night of Christmas Eve: A Legend of Little Russia” in Cossack Tales by Nikolai Gogol, London: Blackwood, p. 1,^[27]

      […] everything had become so still that the crisping of the snow under foot might be heard nearly half a verst round.

    • 1904, Harry Leon Wilson, The Seeker, New York: Doubleday, Page, Chapter 10, p. 239,^[28]

      […] the wheels [of the carriage] made their little crisping over the fine metal of the driveway.

    • 1915, Clotilde Graves (as Richard Dehan), “A Dish of Macaroni” in Off Sandy Hook, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, p. 39,^[29]

      […] her light footsteps and crisping draperies retreated along the passage,

    • 1915, Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack, New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1916, Chapter 16, p. 291,^[30]

      The same peculiar crisping or crackling sound […] was heard this morning in every direction […] the ‘noise accompanying the aurora,’

    • 1948, Max Brand, “Honor Bright” in The Cosmopolitan, November 1948,^[31]

      Jericho had placed in my hand a glass in which the bubbles broke with a crisping sound.

11. (transitive, dated) To colour (something with highlights); to add small amounts of colour to (something).

    Synonym: tinge

    • 1876, Margaret Oliphant, “The Secret Chamber” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 120, December 1876, p. 718,^[32]

      It was the form of a man of middle age, the hair white, but the beard only crisped with grey,

    • 1921, D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia, New York: Thomas Seltzer, Chapter 2, p. 55,^[33]

      […] Monte Pellegrino, a huge, inordinate mass of pinkish rock, hardly crisped with the faintest vegetation, looming up to heaven from the sea.

    • 1925, Warwick Deeping, Sorrell and Son, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926, Chapter 7, p. 66,^[34]

      The leaves of the chestnut were crisped with gold.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Crips, crips, scrip