Meaning of crystal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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
2. 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.
   countable
3. A female given name from English.
4. A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass
5. A surname.
6. A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
   countable
7. A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
   uncountable
8. A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it
9. A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
10. Crystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride.
    slang, uncountable
11. Crystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride
12. A town in Maine.
13. A person's eye.
    countable, figuratively, obsolete, plural-normally, uncountable
14. A person's eye
15. A city in Minnesota.
16. The glass over the dial of a watch case.
    countable, uncountable
17. A census-designated place in New Mexico.
18. A city and town in North Dakota.
19. A town in Wisconsin.

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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.”

“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”

Come, let's away. My love, kiss me. Look after my goods and property … Go, dry your eyes. Comrades in arms, let us to France

“"Crystal's pretty. The name, I mean." Jewel shook her head. "It doesn't look like her. She looks like Beaver Cleaver." […] Crys chuckled. For the first time since she'd planted herself fiercely on Lusa's driveway that morning she sounded clear and transparent, like a child. Like the crystal she was.”

“"No prob. I'm wired, anyway...Christa or Crystal. Why'd Kayla peg her for a stripper?" "Because Gavin said she was a dancer," I said. "Well," he said, "name a girl Crystal and what's more likely? That she'll get a Ph.D. in biomechanics, or end up shaking her tail for tips?"”

“Crystal just stood there with a semisad look on her face.”

“CBS, the BBC's US news partner, said that VOA employees were notified in an email by Crystal Thomas, the USAGM human resources director.”

“In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them.”

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