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  Crimp \Crimp\ (kr[i^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crimped
     (kr[i^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimping.] [Akin to D.
     krimpen to shrink, shrivel, Sw. krympa, Dan. krympe, and to
     E. cramp. See Cramp.]
     1. To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that
        the material will retain the shape intended; to give a
        wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to
        crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
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              The comely hostess in a crimped cap.  --W. Irving.
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     2. To pinch and hold; to seize.
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     3. Hence, to entrap into the military or naval service; as,
        to crimp seamen.
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              Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him.
                                                    --Carlyle.
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     4. (Cookery) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp,
        as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a
        knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
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     5. (Firearms) In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a
        cartridge case) inward so as to close the mouth partly and
        confine the charge.
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     Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are
        decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or
        enlist as sailors or soldiers.
  
     Crimping iron.
        (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair.
        (b) A crimping machine.
  
     Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with
        dies, for crimping ruffles, leather, iron, etc.
  
     Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the
        border of a lady's cap.
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  Crimp \Crimp\, n.
     1. A coal broker. [Prov. Eng.] --De Foe.
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     2. One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval
        service. -- Marryat.
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     3. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and
        emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
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     4. Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
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     5. A game at cards. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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     Boot crimp. See under Boot.
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  Crimp \Crimp\, a.
     1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.]
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              Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. --J.
                                                    Philips.
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     2. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.]
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              The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward
              and forward, and contradict themselves. --Arbuthnot.
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  Crimp \Crimp\, v. t. (Firearms)
     In cartridge making, to fold the edge of (a cartridge case)
     inward so as to close the mouth partly and confine the
     charge.

  Crimp \Crimp\, a.
     1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [R.]
  
              Now the fowler . . . treads the crimp earth. --J.
                                                    Philips.
  
     2. Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.]
  
              The evidance is crimp; the witnesses swear backward
              and forward, and contradict themselves. --Arbuthnot.

  Crimp \Crimp\ (kr[i^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crimped
     (kr[i^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Crimping.] [Akin to D.
     krimpen to shrink, shrivel, Sw. krympa, Dan. krympe, and to
     E. cramp. See Cramp.]
     1. To fold or plait in regular undulation in such a way that
        the material will retain the shape intended; to give a
        wavy appearance to; as, to crimp the border of a cap; to
        crimp a ruffle. Cf. Crisp.
  
              The comely hostess in a crimped cap.  --W. Irving.
  
     2. To pinch and hold; to seize.
  
     3. Hence, to entrap into the military or naval service; as,
        to crimp seamen.
  
              Coaxing and courting with intent to crimp him.
                                                    --Carlyle.
  
     4. (Cookery) To cause to contract, or to render more crisp,
        as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a
        knife; as, to crimp skate, etc.
  
     Crimping house, a low lodging house, into which men are
        decoyed and plied with drink, to induce them to ship or
        enlist as sailors or soldiers.
  
     Crimping iron.
        (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair.
        (b) A crimping machine.
  
     Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with
        dies, for crimping ruffles leather, iron, etc.
  
     Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the
        border of a lady's cap.

  Crimp \Crimp\, n.
     1. A coal broker. [Prov. Eng.] --De Foe.
  
     2. One who decoys or entraps men into the military or naval
        service. -- Marryat.
  
     3. A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and
        emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
  
     4. Hair which has been crimped; -- usually in pl.
  
     5. A game at cards. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
  
     Boot crimp. See under Boot.

  crimp
       n 1: an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the
            napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her
            blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow"
            [syn: fold, crease, plication, flexure, bend]
       2: someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or
          soldiers [syn: crimper]
       3: a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled
       v 1: make ridges into by pinching together [syn: pinch]
       2: curl tightly; "crimp hair" [syn: crape, frizzle, frizz,
           kink up, kink]

  crimp
     a.
     1 (lb en obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
     2 (lb en obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
     n.
     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.
     2 The natural curliness of wool fibres.
     3 (lb en usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back
  and forth in many short kinks.
     4 (lb en obsolete) A card game.
     5 (lb en climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
     6 (lb en climbing) A grip on such a hold.
     vb.
     1 To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
     2 (lb en electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes
  around the parts to be fastened.
     3 To pinch and hold; to seize.
     4 To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make
  it kinky.
     5 To bend or mold leather into shape.
     6 To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when
  cooked.
     7 (lb en climbing) to hold using a crimp
     n.
     1 An agent who procures seaman, soldier#Noun, etc., especially by
  decoy#Verb, entrapping, impressing(,) or seduce them.
     2 (lb en specifically legal) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the
  (w: Merchant Shipping Act 1854), applied to a person other than the
  owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the (w:
  Board of Trade).
     3 (lb en obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and
  emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to
  decoy.

  crimp
     a.
     1 (lb en obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
     2 (lb en obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
     n.
     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.
     2 The natural curliness of wool fibres.
     3 (lb en usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back
  and forth in many short kinks.
     4 (lb en obsolete) A card game.
     5 (lb en climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
     6 (lb en climbing) A grip on such a hold.
     vb.
     1 To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
     2 (lb en electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes
  around the parts to be fastened.
     3 To pinch and hold; to seize.
     4 To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make
  it kinky.
     5 To bend or mold leather into shape.
     6 To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when
  cooked.
     7 (lb en climbing) to hold using a crimp
     n.
     1 An agent who procures seaman, soldier#Noun, etc., especially by
  decoy#Verb, entrapping, impressing(,) or seduce them.
     2 (lb en specifically legal) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the
  (w: Merchant Shipping Act 1854), applied to a person other than the
  owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the (w:
  Board of Trade).
     3 (lb en obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and
  emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to
  decoy.

  crimp
     a.
     1 (lb en obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
     2 (lb en obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
     n.
     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.
     2 The natural curliness of wool fibres.
     3 (lb en usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back
  and forth in many short kinks.
     4 (lb en obsolete) A card game.
     5 (lb en climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
     6 (lb en climbing) A grip on such a hold.
     vb.
     1 To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
     2 (lb en electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes
  around the parts to be fastened.
     3 To pinch and hold; to seize.
     4 To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make
  it kinky.
     5 To bend or mold leather into shape.
     6 To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when
  cooked.
     7 (lb en climbing) to hold using a crimp
     n.
     1 An agent who procures seaman, soldier#Noun, etc., especially by
  decoy#Verb, entrapping, impressing(,) or seduce them.
     2 (lb en specifically legal) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the
  (w: Merchant Shipping Act 1854), applied to a person other than the
  owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the (w:
  Board of Trade).
     3 (lb en obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and
  emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to
  decoy.

  crimp
     a.
     1 (lb en obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
     2 (lb en obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
     n.
     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.
     2 The natural curliness of wool fibres.
     3 (lb en usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back
  and forth in many short kinks.
     4 (lb en obsolete) A card game.
     5 (lb en climbing) A small hold with little surface area.
     6 (lb en climbing) A grip on such a hold.
     vb.
     1 To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
     2 (lb en electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes
  around the parts to be fastened.
     3 To pinch and hold; to seize.
     4 To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make
  it kinky.
     5 To bend or mold leather into shape.
     6 To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when
  cooked.
     7 (lb en climbing) to hold using a crimp
     n.
     1 An agent who procures seaman, soldier#Noun, etc., especially by
  decoy#Verb, entrapping, impressing(,) or seduce them.
     2 (lb en specifically legal) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the
  (w: Merchant Shipping Act 1854), applied to a person other than the
  owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the (w:
  Board of Trade).
     3 (lb en obsolete) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and
  emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to
  decoy.

  crimp
     Englanti n.
     1 poimu
     2 kihara
     3 rajoitus
     Englanti vb.
     1 kähertää
     2 poimuttaa
     3 estää, rajoittaa

  Crimp /kɹˈɪmp/
  إعقص

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/ 
   [amer] házet klacky pod nohy

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/ 
  zvlnění

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/ 
   [amer] klacek pod nohy

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/ 
   [amer] překážka

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/ 
  crimpio 

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/
  Doppelfalte , Zick-Zack-Falte 
           Note: Papierfalten
     Synonym: pleat
  
   see: crimps, pleats
  

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/
  Zwangsrektrutierer  [mil.]  [naut.]  [hist.]
   see: crimps
  

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/ 
  heften, quetschen 
   see: crimping, crimped
  

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/ 
  wellen [Haar] , kräuseln 
   see: crimping, crimped, crimps, crimped
  

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/ 
  1. समेटना, सिकोड़ना, ऐंठना, मोड़ना
        "She has crimped the edges of the pie shell."

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/
  hvatati mladice, nabirati, nasilno za službu na brodu ili u vojsci, uvijati (kosu)

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/
  hullámosság

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/
  1. zorla veya kandırarak denizci veya asker toplayan kimse veya acente
  2. zorla askere almak.

  crimp /kɹˈɪmp/
  1. kıvrım, dalga
  2. (çoğ.) dalgalı saç
  3. kıvırmak
  4. (mak.) kenarlarını iç içe katlayarak birleştirmek
  5. dalgalandırmak. put a crimp in (k.dili.) engel olmak.

  
/ˈkɹɪmp/

  201 Moby Thesaurus words for "crimp":
     Vandyke, abduce, abduct, abductor, aqueduct, bar, bit, blaze,
     bollix, bridle, bunco artist, bunco steerer, canal, canalization,
     canalize, cardsharp, cardsharper, carpetbagger, carry away,
     carry off, carve, chamfer, channel, check, chisel, chop, cocker,
     cockle, coil, con artist, con man, confidence man, constrain,
     corrugate, corrugation, crab, crack, cramp, crankle, crease,
     creasing, crenellate, crenulate, crimper, crimple, crinkle, crisp,
     crumbly, crumple, curl, cut, dado, dike, ditch, dog-ear, double,
     double over, doubling, duplicature, enfold, engrave, entrenchment,
     flection, flexure, flounce, flute, fold, fold over, fosse, foul up,
     friable, frill, frizz, frizzle, furrow, gash, gather, goffer,
     gouge, groove, gully, gum, gum up, gutter, ha-ha, hamper,
     hold back, hold down, hold for ransom, hold in, horse coper,
     horse trader, hurdle, impediment, impress, incise, indent, infold,
     inhibit, interfold, jackleg, jag, kennel, kidnap, kidnapper, kink,
     knit, knot, knurl, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, lap over,
     lapel, lappet, lock, louse up, machicolate, mill, moat,
     mortgage shark, mountain, nick, notch, obstruction, pettifogger,
     picot, pink, pitchman, plait, plat, pleat, plica, plicate,
     plication, plicature, plow, ply, ponytail, pucker, pulverizable,
     pulverulent, purse, queer, quill, rabbet, ridge, rifle, rimple,
     ringlet, ripple, rivel, rub, ruche, ruching, ruck, ruckle, ruff,
     ruffle, rumple, run away with, rut, scallop, scarify, score,
     scotch, scratch, screw, scrunch, serrate, shanghai, shanghaier,
     shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shirr, shortchanger, shyster,
     skyjack, slash, slicker, slit, snafu, snag, snatch, spieler,
     spirit away, streak, striate, sunk fence, tooth, trench,
     triturable, trough, tuck, turn over, twill, wimple, withhold,
     wrinkle
  
  

  v. 使卷曲，打褶

     n. 诱骗别人去当兵,卷曲,卷发
     vt. 诱骗别人去当兵,使卷曲,使有褶