crystal

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  The king climbs to crystal tower to reach Zoulvisia
• WordNet 3.6
  • n crystal a protective cover that protects the face of a watch
  • n crystal glassware made of quartz
  • n crystal a crystalline element used as a component in various electronic devices
  • n crystal a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces
  • n crystal colorless glass made of almost pure silica
  • n crystal a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure
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• Interesting fact: All snow crystals are hexagonal.
• • Crystal A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.
  • Crystal Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc. "The blue crystal of the seas."
  • a Crystal Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline. "Through crystal walls each little mote will peep.""By crystal streams that murmur through the meads.""The crystal pellets at the touch congeal,
    And from the ground rebounds the ratting hail."
  • Crystal The glass over the dial of a watch case.
  • Crystal The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.
  • Crystal (Chem. & Min) The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
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• Interesting fact: There is a 6-foot tall stone monument dedicated to the cartoon character Popeye in Crystal City, TX. .
• • n crystal In chem. and mineralogy, a body which, by the operation of molecular attraction, has assumed a definite internal structure with the form of a regular solid inclosed by a certain number of plane surfaces arranged according to the laws of symmetry. The internal structure is exhibited in the cleavage, in the behavior of sections in polarized light, etc. The external form is discussed under crystallography (which see). Crystals are obtained in the laboratory either by fusing substances by heat and allowing them gradually to cool, or by dissolving them in a fluid and then abstracting the latter by slow evaporation; also by the direct condensation of a vapor produced by sublimation, as in the case of arsenious oxid, in the same way that snow-crystals are formed directly from water-vapor in the upper atmosphere. The name was first applied to the transparent varieties of quartz, specifically called rock-crystal.
  • n crystal Glass. Glass of a high degree of transparency and freedom from color. It is heavier than ordinary glass, because containing much oxid of lead.
  • n crystal Fine glass used for table-vessels or other table-service, or for ornamental pieces. The term is sometimes used as synonymous with cut glass.
  • n crystal The glass cover of a watch-case.
  • n crystal A substance resembling rock-crystal or glass in its properties, especially in transparency and clearness.
  • n crystal In heraldry, the color white: said of that color when described in blazoning a nobleman's escutcheon, according to the system of blazoning by precious stones; pearl, however, is more commonly used.
  • n crystal A very fine wide white durant, once used for making nuns' veils.
  • n crystal In optics. See refraction.
  • crystal Consisting of crystal, or like crystal; clear; transparent; pellucid.
  • n crystal An English trade-name for a fine quality of white sugar.
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• Interesting fact: The Times Square "time ball" is named the "Star of Hope". It was specially made for this year and contains 504 glass crystals cut into triangles, 600 light bulbs, 96 big lights, and 92 mirrors.
• • n Crystal kris′tal a superior kind of quartz, clear like ice:
  • adjs Crystal consisting of or like crystal in clearness, &c
  • v.i Crystal to assume a crystalline form
  • n Crystal a name given by Graham to a class of substances which when in solution pass easily through membranes
  • n Crystal kris′tal (chem.) a piece of matter which has assumed a definite geometrical form, with plane faces
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• Linall Jr. A. L.

  

  “Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.”
• Jim Bakker

  

  “Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?”
• James Russell Lowell

  

  “Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.”
• George Orwell

  

  “But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.”
• Delsarte

  

  “The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.”
• Paul J. Meyer

  

  “Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.”

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