Crescent
21crescent — [14] Crescent is one of a wide range of words (including create, crescendo, concrete, crew, accretion, croissant, increase, and recruit) bequeathed to English by the Latin verb crēscere ‘grow’. In the case of crescent, it came in the form of the… …
22crescent — Synonyms and related words: Autobahn, Cynthian, S shaped, US highway, achievement, alerion, alley, alleyway, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, artificial… …
23crescent — [ krɛz(ə)nt, s ] noun 1》 the curved shape of the waxing or waning moon. 2》 a thing which has the shape of a single curve, especially when broad in the centre and tapering to a point at each end. ↘chiefly Brit. a street or terrace of houses… …
24crescent — UK [ˈkrez(ə)nt] / US noun [countable] Word forms crescent : singular crescent plural crescents 1) a) a curved shape that is wide in the middle and pointed at the ends. The moon sometimes has this shape. b) the shape of a crescent used as the… …
25crescent — I. noun Etymology: Middle English cressant, from Anglo French, from present participle of crestre to grow, increase, from Latin crescere; akin to Old High German hirsi millet, Lithuanian šerti to feed, Greek koros boy Date: 15th century 1. a. the …
26crescent — noun (C) 1 a curved shape, wider in the middle and pointed at the ends: crescent moon/knife/biscuit etc: A new crescent moon rose above the town. 2 the curved shape as a sign of the Muslim religion 3 a word meaning a street with a curved shape,… …
27crescent — /ˈkrɛzənt / (say krezuhnt), /ˈkrɛsənt / (say kresuhnt) noun 1. a. the shape of the moon in its first or last quarter; the shape bounded by two convex lines which intersect twice. b. any of the similar aspects of Venus or Mercury when less than… …
28crescent — n. & adj. n. 1 the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon. 2 anything of this shape, esp. Brit. a street forming an arc. 3 a the crescent shaped emblem of Islam or Turkey. b (the Crescent) the world or power of Islam. adj. 1 poet.… …
29crescent — 1. Any figure of the shape of the moon in its first quarter. 2. The figure made by the gray columns or cornua on cross section of the spinal cord. 3. SYN: malarial c.. [L. cresco, pp. cretus, to grow] articular c. SYN: meniscus lens …
30crescent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. crescent shaped, lunate, moon shaped, luniform. See curvature. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. crescent moon, waxing moon, waning moon, sickle, convex figure, concave figure, half moon, demilune, meniscus,… …
