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US
/ˈkɹɛsənt/
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[ UK /kɹˈɛsənt/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɛsənt/ ]
NOUN
- any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
ADJECTIVE
- resembling the new moon in shape
How To Use crescent In A Sentence
- It will not be washed out by moonlight this year, since the Moon will be a waning crescent just a couple of days from New.
- 5.8 Lunes and Triangles Begin by reminding students that a lune is a crescent-shaped fi gure Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Interrupted by just the squat Marble Mountains, we sit insignificantly at the hub of a huge disc of sand curving to every horizon, beneath a dome of stars and the ghostly light of a thin crescent moon.
- The island is an unusual crescent shape with a steep spine that looks down over sheer cliffs on to the sea. Times, Sunday Times
- They are green and white, and they carry their national symbol, the star and crescent, silvery bright and shiny.
- The hall is shaded by a shallow half-hat of a roof which leaves a crescent-shaped interstice between it and the edge of the big carapace.
- The adult ovary may present marked deviations from its typical form, sometimes being unusually long, spheroidal, flattened, triangular, crescentric, or otherwise irregular.
- The handle was just a sharply carved crescent moon shape, crudely cut from a tarnishing piece of bronze.
- Its large, crescent-shaped eyes stand prominently atop the cheeks.
- They are covered with reddish brown hair, and the sides of the face, in adult males, are commonly produced into two crescentic, flexible excrescences, like fatty tumours. Essays