Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Being, relating to, or composed of crystal or crystals.
- adj. Resembling crystal, as in transparency or distinctness of structure or outline.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Consisting of crystal.
- Relating or pertaining to crystals or crystallization.
- Formed by crystallization; of the nature of a crystal, especially as regards its internal structure, cleavage, etc.: opposed to amorphous.
- Resembling crystal; pure; clear; transparent; pellucid: specifically applied in anatomy to several structures, as the crystalline humor, cones, etc. See below.
- In entomology, reflecting light like glass: specifically applied to the ocelli or simple eyes when they are apparently colorless, resembling glass.
- n. A crystallized rock, or one only partially crystallized, as granite.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, relating to, or composed of crystals
- adj. chemistry having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure
- adj. resembling crystal in being clear and transparent
- n. obsolete Any crystalline substance.
- n. obsolete aniline
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Consisting, or made, of crystal.
- adj. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture.
- adj. Imperfectly crystallized.
- adj. Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid.
- n. A crystalline substance.
- n. obsolete See Aniline.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals
- adj. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- adj. distinctly or sharply outlined
Etymologies
- crystal + -ine (Wiktionary)
- Middle English cristallin, from Old French, from Latin crystallinus, from Greek krustallinos, from krustallos, ice, crystal; see kreus- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In its citation, the Swedish academy said the duo achieved their result "at a time when many believed it was impossible for such thin crystalline materials to be stable.”
“Its floor is covered in crystalline, perfectly faceted blocks.”
“Hang it out on the line in crystalline clean mountain air.”
“One medical researcher who accidentally inhaled some of it in crystalline form said “It is not toxic, but if you inhale some of it, you will wish you were dead.””
“Now the whole Livewire in crystalline Element Lad body being hunted down as “The Progenitor” thing keeps my seatbelt on.”
“The geometric ordering of atoms in crystalline solids as well as the different kinds of magnetic order, are examples of general ordering phenomena in nature when systems find an energetically favorable arrangement by choosing a certain state of symmetry.”
“The chains may be entangled like spaghetti (as above) or be ordered in crystalline formations.”
“The second important ovarian hormone, the corpus luteum hormone, was by various workers obtained in crystalline form from corpus luteum in 1931 and 1932.”
“Their work on carbohydrate metabolism passed from studies of whole animal to isolated tissues and, later, tissue extracts and isolated enzymes, some in crystalline form, were studied.”
“It is only now, through the efforts of the Nobel prize-winners, that they have been isolated and purified so that they can be produced in crystalline form.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crystalline’.
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shapes
words for shape
( randomness, visual. descriptive )triangular, conical, round, broad, congruous, hexagonal, globular, curved, oval, rectangular, parallel, crumpled and 142 more...
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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infin8y's list
words i love
paradox, relativity, perspective, truth, shiiin, effervescent, aureole, love, hope, crystalline, tranquillity, pneumonoultramicr...
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Metallics
Words that relate to or describe metals.
malleable, ductile, shiny, steely, brassy, dull, golden, precious, smelt, smith, tensile, clink and 39 more...
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bling
( open list, visual, light, descriptive )
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glisten, gleam, sparkle, shine, shimmer, gloss, pearly, opalescent, iridescent, prismatic, multifaceted, glow and 35 more... -
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kerniving, scandinavia, confectionary, mangrove, bejewelled, flesh, crystalline, gazelle, pantaloons, bluebird, caribou, albatross and 88 more...
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jilma's list
favorite sounding words
alchemy, missoula, tenacity, colibrí, lilith, tangible, tangle, emblazoned, brazen, willowy, baroque, macabre and 35 more...
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I am : bright
Verbs and adjectives (mostly adjectives) pertaining to physical light, brightness and/or clarity.
bright, brilliant, ablaze, afire, aflame, incandescent, fluorescent, phosphorescent, lucent, lambent, transparent, clear and 29 more...
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Poetry
lucid, silhouette, ethereal, illumination, serenity, requiem, adieu, celestial, esoteric, myriad, ebony, kaleidoscope and 16 more...
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words
my words. my mind. my gosh.
try not to enjoy it too much.git, ghoti, sauce, quail, querulous, quarrelsome, reliability, untoward, incongruities, fission, fanatic, apple and 206 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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theastic's Words
cellar, stalemate, wrought, opal, tyrant, squelch, squab, linen, tartan, paisley, scope, siren and 395 more...
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Zooey's list
cosmology, consummate, demiurge, paradisiacal, reconnaissance, intransigent, otiose, zeitgeist, coalesce, zeitgeber, absolve, abstruse and 105 more...
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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