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crescent
Cres·cent C0741700 (krĕs′ənt) A trademark for an adjustable open-end wrench.
cres·cent C0741700 (krĕs′ənt)n.1. The figure of the moon as it appears before its first quarter phase or after its third quarter phase, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.2. a. A curved street.b. A curved block of buildings, especially row houses, forming a continuous facade.3. A curved pastry.adj.1. Crescent-shaped.2. Waxing, as the moon approaching its first quarter phase; increasing.
[Middle English cressaunt, from Anglo-Norman, variant of Old French creissant, from present participle of creistre, to grow, from Latin crēscere; see ker- in Indo-European roots.]
cres·cen′tic (krə-sĕn′tĭk) adj.crescent (ˈkrɛsənt; -zənt) n1. (Astronomy) the biconcave shape of the moon in its first or last quarters2. any shape or object resembling this3. (Human Geography) chiefly a. a crescent-shaped street, often lined with houses of the same styleb. (capital when part of a name): Pelham Crescent. 4. (Heraldry) heraldry a crescent moon, used as the cadency mark of a second son5. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the crescent (often capital) a. the emblem of Islam or Turkeyb. Islamic or Turkish poweradjarchaic or poetic increasing or growing[C14: from Latin crescēns increasing, from crescere to grow] crescentic adjcres•cent (ˈkrɛs ənt)
n. 1. a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends. 2. something, as a cookie, having this shape. 3. the figure of the moon in its first or last quarter, resembling such a shape. adj. 4. shaped like a crescent. 5. increasing. [1350–1400; Middle English cressaunt < Anglo-French < Latin crēscent-, s. of crēscēns, present participle of crēscere to grow] cres•cen•tic (krɪˈsɛn tɪk) adj. cres·cent (krĕs′ənt) Partly but less than half illuminated. Used to describe the moon or a planet. Compare gibbous.crescentA crescent-shaped row of terraced houses.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  crescent - any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarterscurve, curved shape - the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes | | Adj. | 1. | crescent - resembling the new moon in shapecrescent-shaped, lunate, semilunarrounded - curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" |
crescentnoun1. meniscus, sickle, new moon, half-moon, old moon, sickle-shape a flag with a white crescent on a red groundadjective1. sickle-shaped, curved, arched, semicircular, bow-shaped a crescent moonTranslationscrescent (ˈkresnt) noun1. (also adjective) (having) the curved shape of the growing moon. the crescent moon; crescent-shaped earrings. 上弦月，新月 月牙，新月 2. (abbreviated to Cres. when written in street-names) a curved street. 彎曲街道 新月状街道crescent
crescent, emblematic representation of the quarter moon. The crescent and star, ancient Byzantine symbols that became the emblems of Constantinople, were also assumed as the standard of the Ottoman Turks. The crescent surmounted by a cross indicates the origin of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The crescent appears on the flags of various present-day Muslim nations. The emblem is also used in blazonry.CrescentShape similar to the visible part of the moon in its first or last quarter; also the shape of a row of townhouse fronts constructed in the approximate shape of a circular or elliptical arc.crescentA building or series of buildings whose façades follow a concave arc of a circle or ellipse in plan.crescent1. the biconcave shape of the moon in its first or last quarters 2. Chiefly Brit a crescent-shaped street, often lined with houses of the same style 3. a. the emblem of Islam or Turkey b. Islamic or Turkish power crescent
crescent [kres´ent] 1. shaped like a new moon.2. something with this shape. adj., adj crescen´tic.Giannuzzi's c's crescent-shaped patches of serous cells surrounding the mucous tubercles in mixed glands.sublingual crescent the crescent-shaped area on the floor of the mouth, bounded by the lingual wall of the mandible and the base of the tongue.cres·cent (kres'ent), 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. Synonym(s): malarial crescent [L. cresco, pp. cretus, to grow] A sharply circumscribed, smoothly curved radiolucency or light-coloured mass on a dark background, which converges at both ends
Pathology—kidneys Epithelial crescents are curved, semilunar lesions seen by low-power light micoscopy which correspond to extracapillary proliferation of Bowman’s—glomerular—capsular epithelium, and acquire a fibroblast-like spindled morphology, possibly stimulated by release of fibrinogen from basement membrane; crescents may be accompanied by collagen and fibrin deposition, mononuclear cell proliferation, and are seen in primary and secondary glomerular diseasecrescent Quarter moon adjective Referring to a sharply circumscribed, smoothly curved radiolucent or light-colored mass in a dark background, which converges at both endscres·cent (kres'ĕnt) 1. Any figure in 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. Synonym(s): malarial crescent. [L. cresco, pp. cretus, to grow]See CRECENT
See CREScrescent
Synonyms for crescentnoun meniscusSynonyms- meniscus
- sickle
- new moon
- half-moon
- old moon
- sickle-shape
adj sickle-shapedSynonyms- sickle-shaped
- curved
- arched
- semicircular
- bow-shaped
Synonyms for crescentnoun any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quartersRelated Wordsadj resembling the new moon in shapeSynonyms- crescent-shaped
- lunate
- semilunar
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