crystal

noun crystals · christal · christall · chrystal · chrystall · cristal

1. countable 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.

   Similar: grain · Opposite: glass

2. countable A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
3. uncountable A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
4. slang, uncountable Crystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride. 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.
5. countable, figuratively, obsolete, plural normally, uncountable A person's eye. 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
6. countable, uncountable The glass over the dial of a watch case.

adjective christal · christall · chrystal · chrystall · cristal · cristall

1. literally, not comparable Made of crystal. Its ceiling was crystal, around on the wall / Thickly studded were rubies and diamonds rare; / But purer than crystal, and brighter than all / Of the jewels adorning her glittering hall, / Was the mermaiden languishing there.
2. figuratively, not comparable Very clear; coherent. "Do I make myself clear?" / "Crystal."

Similar: crystalline

proper noun Chrystal

1. A female given name from English. "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.
2. A surname. 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.
3. A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
4. A town in Maine.
5. A city in Minnesota.
6. A census-designated place in New Mexico.
7. A city and town in North Dakota.
8. A town in Wisconsin.