crescent
(kresənt , krez- )
Word forms: crescents
1. countable noun B2
A crescent is a curved shape that is wider in the middle than at its ends, like the shape of the moon during its first and last quarters. It is the most important symbol of the Islamic faith.
A glittering Islamic crescent tops the mosque.
...a narrow crescent of sand dunes. [+ of]
...a crescent moon.
2. countable noun
Crescent is sometimes used as part of the name of a street or row of houses that is usually built in a curve. [mainly British]
...44 Colville Crescent.
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Collocations:
thin crescent white crescent
Photographers will enjoy a conjunction with a very thin crescent moon on the 14th.
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By now the moon was just a thin crescent, and we spent an hour driving the perimeter in the darkness.
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Behind him a thin crescent moon lingers over the far-off horizon.
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Using the third method the new moon would have been the first evening when one could look to the west after sunset and see the thin crescent moon.
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Halve, peel and slice onion halves into thin crescents.
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It has black plumage and a whitish cap, a small white crescent under each eye and a white spot above.
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The adults are brown-black, glossed blue on the back, and have a white crescent on the nape.
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It features a distinctive black and white streaked throat bounded by a solid white crescent.
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It has a black patch around the eyes with a white crescent behind and below the eye.
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They are like heavyweight, blackish-brown seagulls, with white crescents on their wings, and they have strong, hooked beaks.
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Translations:
Chinese: 新月 伊斯兰教最重要的标志
Japanese: 三日月形
- field experience
- field experiment
- field experts
- field-glasses
- field glasses
- field goal
- field gradient
- field hand
- field hockey
- fielding
- fielding drill
- fielding error
- field marshal
- field-marshal
- field mouse
- fieldmouse
- field notes
- field observations
- field of endeavour
- field of expertise
- field of genetics
- field of inquiry
- field of psychiatry
- field of psychology
- field placement