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crescent

crescent

1 3.9
Shaped like a curved moon, wide in the middle and pointed at both ends
  • adjective
  • /ˈkrɛsənt/
translation icon : semilunar
  • And there is still this shadow and Crescent shape in red here, but it's it also has some small scale structure due to the turbulence.

And then I made these like pizza Crescent roll, roll up things with homemade ranch.

Examples

  • And now notice how we are going into Half Moon or half Venus, Crescent Venus.

  • This shade Crescent Moon just do this really quickly and then there was a purple shade called Moonkist.

  • So I try my best, but this is a really Pretty Little color, just creating a little Crescent moon on the eye.

  • No, you you just see like a little Crescent shaped of the sun here.

  • You'd get something much more like your shallower Crescent, which makes far more sense to me, but actually perhaps even more so.

  • I'm jogging with the captain of the best squad, so I'd say it's pretty crescent.

  • And then this really thin, just sliver of a toenail moon or Crescent moon to give it its proper name just above them.

  • And So what Gary Bregman shows in his diagram here is how far that you stretch out this Crescent is very much a reflection of how many units you have.

  • I, I, I I've always kind of thought that it's because the the legs make a sort of a Crescent like AC but, but frankly I don't know.

  • The artist painted a beautiful crescent moon in the night sky.

Synonyms

crescent-shaped
vscrescent
3 3.8

Shaped like a curved moon

is defined as a curved circle segment tapering to pointed ends
crescentic
vscrescent
1 6.6

Shaped like a thin, curved moon

describes the curved segment itself rather than marking or decoration
lunate
vscrescent
  • Specialized
8.6

Shaped like a crescent moon

focuses on the circular segment shape rather than slimness
semilunar
vscrescent
8.3

Shaped like a half moon

refers to a curved segment tapering to points rather than a half circle

Antonyms

116 1.2

A time when the Moon's whole face looks bright from Earth

Compounds

2 3.0

A rich, flaky bread roll shaped like a curved moon

1 3.8

A metal tool with a movable jaw for holding and turning nuts and bolts

A curved area of rich farmland from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates where early farming and cities began

Two large bridges that cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans and carry cars

crescent-cell anemia
  • Specialized
7.0

An inherited blood disease in which red blood cells become crescent-shaped and break early, causing pain and tiredness

A small crescent-shaped cookie made with ground almonds

How Curved

hook
9 1.0
crescent
1 3.9
arc
73 3.2
straight line
49 1.0

Surface Forms

crescent positive

Etymology

Crescent comes from the Latin crescere, which means 'to grow', because people used it for the moon when it looked like it was getting larger each night. That's why crescent means 'shaped like' the curved, pointed moon.