| 单词 | crust |
| 释义 | Word Frequency crust(krʌst) noun 1. a. the hard outer part of bread b. a piece of bread consisting mainly of this 2. the baked shell of a pie, tart, etc 3. any hard or stiff outer covering or surface a crust of ice 4. the solid outer shell of the earth, with an average thickness of 30–35 km in continental regions and 5 km beneath the oceans, forming the upper part of the lithosphere and lying immediately above the mantle, from which it is separated by the Mohorovičić discontinuity See also sial, sima 5. the dry covering of a skin sore or lesion; scab 6. a layer of acid potassium tartrate deposited by some wine, esp port, on the inside of the bottle 7. the hard outer layer of such organisms as lichens and crustaceans 8. slang impertinence 9. British, Australian and New Zealand slang a living (esp in the phrase earn a crust) verb 10. to cover with or acquire a crust 11. to form or be formed into a crust Word origin C14: from Latin crūsta hard surface, rind, shell |
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