clearance vs crimp

clearance

noun
  • The first disposal in a chain that leaves the area of a stoppage, or a disposal that leaves the area of a stoppage itself. 

  • The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared. 

  • A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel. 

  • A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information. 

  • The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending. 

  • The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit. 

  • Clear or net profit. 

  • The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house. 

  • A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected. 

  • The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom. 

  • The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine 

  • A sale of merchandise, especially at significantly reduced prices, usually in order to make room for new merchandise or updated versions of the same merchandise. 

  • The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance. 

  • Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it. 

  • The act of leaving the area of a stoppage. 

crimp

noun
  • One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade. 

  • A small hold with little surface area. 

  • The natural curliness of wool fibres. 

  • Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. 

  • A grip on such a hold. 

  • 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. 

  • An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them. 

verb
  • To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked. 

  • To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. 

  • to hold using a crimp 

  • To bend or mold leather into shape. 

  • To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. 

  • To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky. 

  • To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy. 

  • To pinch and hold; to seize. 

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