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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crust
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Earth’s crust
▪ Volcanoes and earthquakes occur where there is movement in the Earth’s crust.
upper crust
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
continental
▪ Sumatra is composed of old, thick continental crust comprising volcanic rocks of Permian, Cretaceous and Cenozoic age.
▪ The Supercontinent Cycle alone has left the continental crust riddled with the scars of former rifts and mergers.
▪ Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust.
▪ Like a cracked china cup, the continental crust is still fragile where it has been damaged in the past.
▪ This would be expected from differences in the density and thickness of continental and oceanic crust.
▪ The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
▪ The extent of subduction of continental crust below the Himalayas is also in dispute.
▪ Subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate carrying continental crust gives rise to a continental-margin orogen.
low
▪ The earlier notion that the lower continental crust is largely basaltic in composition has received little support from more recent studies.
new
▪ She pencilled on a new crust of eyeshadow and lipstick.
▪ At the beginning of each belt was a mid-ocean ridge, where new ocean crust was made.
▪ This proposed that mid-oceanic ridges represent regions where new oceanic crust is being generated by the upwelling of hot mantle material.
▪ Somehow these shallow reservoirs must provide the stuff that makes new ocean crust.
▪ Faster than new crust can be added to the plate, old crust is being consumed by the trench.
oceanic
▪ Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust.
▪ This would be expected from differences in the density and thickness of continental and oceanic crust.
▪ The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
▪ The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
▪ It appeared that these offsets marked some kind of lateral movement between adjacent sections of oceanic crust.
▪ Its purpose is to gather sufficient information to answer questions about magma chambers in oceanic crust.
▪ From these observations, Hofmann and I proposed that plumes consist in part of deeply subducted oceanic crust and sediment.
▪ Hess mistakenly thought that the oceanic crust consisted of altered peridotite, the material of the mantle itself.
thick
▪ Sumatra is composed of old, thick continental crust comprising volcanic rocks of Permian, Cretaceous and Cenozoic age.
▪ For a thicker crust, repeat each step just before frying.
▪ Have thick crust pizza, extra potatoes, thick sliced bread or rolls with your meal.
▪ Appetising colour and nice thick crust.
thin
▪ The thinnest crusts are known as desert varnish.
▪ The signature pizza has a thin, thin crust and practically no edge.
▪ There is a thin crust from the snow that fell the night before last.
upper
▪ In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could.
▪ Only society's upper crust would have traveled in the car, known as the limousine of its day.
▪ Precision dating of mineral deposits Many mineral deposits are the result of large-scale circulation of hydrothermal fluid in the upper crust.
▪ Those disgraceful students were males from the upper crust.
▪ In fact there were complaints from upper crust visitors about the din, so the cells fell into disuse.
▪ The homes, table settings and spreads, flowers and food are definitely upper crust.
▪ We are in upper-crust country.
▪ The upper crust does not ride public transportation.
■ NOUN
ocean
▪ They are similar to the lavas from which the Earth's ocean crusts are made, but much older.
▪ At the beginning of each belt was a mid-ocean ridge, where new ocean crust was made.
▪ Judging from the minerals present in the mass of water, it appeared to have spurted out of the ocean crust.
▪ Like a bulldozer, it plowed rock off the ocean crust that was descending and piled it into hills along its edge.
▪ Where the ocean crust is young, lava flows dominate the landscape.
▪ Somehow these shallow reservoirs must provide the stuff that makes new ocean crust.
▪ These might consist of old ocean crust or material from one of the boundary layers.
▪ The cold, bottom water that percolates down into the cracks in the ocean crust carries its own complement of chemicals.
pie
▪ Back in the cabin I mix the berries with sugar and lemon peel, then roll out the pie crusts.
▪ Call it fear of pie crust.
▪ She brags about success with pie crust.
▪ Makes one 9-inch pie crust.&038;.
▪ Pizza means pie and a pie crust should crackle.
▪ Cake or pastry flour is good for both cakes and pie crusts but will not hold the dome of loaf bread.
▪ Spoon ice-cream mixture into ready-made pie crust.
■ VERB
earn
▪ This is the toughest place to earn a crust with limited resources.
▪ Her entire knowledge of what he had to do to earn his crust amounted to not a row of beans.
▪ Kitty Butterwick clears away all the crumbs to find loaves which truly earn their crust.
▪ But I thought I might be able to earn a crust by it, you know?
form
▪ The continents sit on shifting plates that form the outer crust of the Earth; and the oceans fill the spaces in between.
▪ From such melts the lower density silicates separated upwards to form a crust.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a pizza with a thin, crispy crust
▪ Jimmy only eats sandwiches with the crusts cut off.
▪ the Earth's crust
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was a nightmare of a trip, the trucks constantly breaking through the crust and having to be dug out.
▪ The extra rises will affect the crust, texture, and flavor, usually giving a crustier, slightly more sour loaf.
▪ The heat sets the crust and quickly evaporates the surface moisture, crisping the crust.
▪ The thickness of the crust, for example, varies widely between continents and oceans.
▪ Use the sharp knife to cut off the crusts.
▪ We were barely twenty when we got married, back before the Earth's crust cooled.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crust

Crust \Crust\ (kr?st), n. [L. crusta: cf. OF. crouste, F. cro[^u]te; prob. akin to Gr. ????? ice, E. crystal, from the same root as E. crude, raw. See Raw, and cf. Custard.]

  1. The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

    I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross.
    --Addison.

    Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever.
    --Prescott.

  2. (Cookery)

    1. The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.

    2. The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.

    3. The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.

      Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
      --Dryden.

      He that keeps nor crust nor crumb.
      --Shak.

      They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty.
      --Macaulay.

  3. (Geol.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

  5. (Med.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

  6. An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.

Crust

Crust \Crust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Crusting.] [Cf. OF. crouster, L. crustare. See Crust, n. ] To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.

The whole body is crusted over with ice.
--Boyle.

And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood Crusted with bark.
--Addison.

Very foul and crusted bottles.
--Swift.

Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
--Felton.

Crust

Crust \Crust\, v. i. To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.

The place that was burnt . . . crusted and healed.
--Temple. [1913 Webster] ||

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crust

late 14c.; see crust (n.). Related: Crusted; crusting.

crust

early 14c., "hard outer part of bread," from Old French crouste (13c., Modern French croûte) and directly from Latin crusta "rind, crust, shell, bark," from PIE *krus-to- "that which has been hardened," from root *kreus- "to begin to freeze, form a crust" (cognates: Sanskrit krud- "make hard, thicken;" Avestan xruzdra- "hard;" Greek krystallos "ice, crystal," kryos "icy cold, frost;" Lettish kruwesis "frozen mud;" Old High German hrosa "ice, crust;" Old English hruse "earth;" Old Norse hroðr "scurf"). Meaning "outer shell of the earth" is from 1550s.

Wiktionary
crust

n. 1 A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary. 2 The external layer of most types of bread. 3 An outer layer composed of pastry 4 The bread-like base of a pizz

  1. 5 (context geology English) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth. 6 The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc. 7 (context uncountable English) nerve, gall. 8 crust punk (gloss: a subgenre of punk music) v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To cover with a crust. 2 (context intransitive English) To form a crust.

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WordNet
crust

  1. n. the outer layer of the Earth [syn: Earth's crust]

  2. a hard outer layer that covers something [syn: incrustation, encrustation]

  3. the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness]

crust

v. form a crust or form into a crust; "The bread crusted in the oven"

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Wikipedia
Crust (geology)

In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet or natural satellite, which is chemically distinct from the underlying mantle. The crusts of Earth, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Io, and other planetary bodies have been generated largely by igneous processes, and these crusts are richer in incompatible elements than their respective mantles.

Crust

Crust may refer to:

Crust (band)

Crust was a musical group from Austin, Texas that was active during the late-1980s and 1990s and was featured on Trance Syndicate Records, a record label run by King Coffey from the Butthole Surfers. The groups members were John Hawkins (vocals and misc.), Jerry Page (bass and misc.), and Richard Smith (percussion and misc.).

Crust (album)

Crust is the third full-length studio album by the Italian progressive death metal band Sadist, released in 1997 by Displeased Records. It was the first album to features lead singer Trevor and drummer Oinos, and was the band's first self-produced album. It features two Japanese bonus tracks which are cover songs; "Take on Me" after A-Ha and "Relax" from Frankie Goes to Hollywood. A music video was made for the song "'Fools' and Dolts".

Crust (dermatology)

Crusts are dried sebum, pus, or blood usually mixed with epithelial and sometimes bacterial debris.

Crust (baking)

In baking, a crust is the outer, hard skin of bread or the shell of a pie. Generally, it is made up of at least shortening or another fat, water, flour, and salt. It may also include milk, sugar, or other ingredients that contribute to the taste or texture. An egg or milk wash can be used to decorate the outside, as well as coarse sugar. A crust contributes to a pastry.

Depending on the type of pastry, the crust can be baked before it is filled, or in baked (baked together with the filling). In pies, two different types of crust exist: one-crust pie and two-crust pie. A two-crust pie can have either a complete upper crust, a lattice top, or any of a variety of other decorative tops.

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Usage examples of "crust".

He dodged aloose goat, a handcart crusted with dried mortar, and ducked the invitation of a blowzy woman festooned in scarlet ribbons.

I wished he had spent his gold on himself and left me poor, for it seemed to me I had need of nothing save the little I earned by my pen--I was content to live an anchorite and dine off a crust for the sake of the divine Muse I worshipped.

Irritably, Colette put the trout in the fridge, cleaned the fennel, made vinaigrette for the avocados, and decided to eat the apricots as they were, without bothering to make tart crust.

There were also rumours and fairytales: of alien digs beneath the crust, evidence that the chasm had in some sense been artefactual, if not necessarily deliberate.

The second time she had heard them hiss with whatever passed for pleasure in their minds, and the next day, when she entered the meeting room with Aum, the Lovers stared at her with fresh wounds, blood crusting on their foreheads, scored deep in mirror images across their faces.

There were samples galore on the desk, all specimens of mineral rock, gold-bearing ore that bore the red-clay crust common to specimens from the Aureole Mine.

Black blood was crusted over and beneath a shallow cut under one bleary, teary brown eye.

Suddenly I felt surging pride in the Star Fleet that had produced a Paul Burch, and became that much more determined to preserve the good institution that he proved still existed beneath the crust of corruption.

Char was caught under his nails, and dried blood crusted in his knuckles.

Capped with brown crust, falling bluff inland, and sloping towards the main, where the usual stone-heaps act as sea-marks, this bank of yellowish-white coralline, measuring 310 metres by half that width, may be the remains of the bed in which the torrents carved out the port.

But there was no sliced bread in Cush, only brown bread and soda bread that her grandmother made, and loaves of white bread with a hard crust which they bought in Blackwater.

If, however, soda biscuits are made thin and baked thoroughly so as to make them at least half or two-thirds crust, they are perfectly digestible and wholesome, and furnish a valuable and appetizing variety for our breakfast and supper tables.

By the time the apple dumplings were cooked and cooling, with a crust of sugar lacing the brown pastry, she was fairly itching to put her plan into action.

It looked as though he might have - he was enshelled in a crust of mud, dung and ash, his hair so matted that it was more like clay than anything else.

As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.