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crescent

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 537 Housing Units (2000): 195 Land area (2000): 1.257763 sq. miles (3.257592 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.257763 sq. miles (3.257592 sq. km) FIPS code: 17175 Located within: Iowa ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a crescent moon (= with a thin curved shape ) ▪ The stars and thin crescent moon gave just enough light to see the path. Red Crescent COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN moon ▪ A slender new crescent moon lay on its back ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Crescent is a passenger train operated by Amtrak in the eastern part of the United States. It operates daily between Pennsylvania Station in New York City and New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in New Orleans, Louisiana , as train numbers 19 and 20. ...

Usage examples of crescent.

This conjunction of the Sun with the Moon at the Vernal Equinox, in the constellation Taurus, required the Bull Apis to have on his shoulder a mark resembling the Crescent Moon.

Gazing down, Aeriel saw the great crescent advancing now, comprising allies of every hue: blue Berneans, pale green Zambulans, Pirseans with coppery skin, pale Terraineans and gold-complected refugees from Avaric, the rose-skinned people of Rani and the teal-colored folk of Elver, dark Mariners, Isterners with plum-colored skin, and the cinnamon-colored wanderers of the desert lands.

At the beachline, where silvered rice-grass grew tall among the piles of whitened driftwood, she paused, looking with wistful eyes toward the Indian Village cuddled in the crescent curve of the beach.

Certainly they could have been penciled on, flat and lifeless as they looked, with bladderlike scar tissue over the eyes and a crescent of dead white skin on each cheek.

A crescent bank of the mottled red igneous stone stood close by Bloodstone, raised somewhat, as an altar before an idol.

Its dipping, crescent browpiece gleamed, flashing in the darting firelight.

Tears, a waft of star motes that hung off the crescent hook of the butterfat moon, weaved through the sparse branches of the wind-blasted pines along the cliff face.

Crescent was some kind of a clearinghouse for him--a way to make his illegal payoffs look legitimate.

Golden Crescent sank, the vast clouds moved around the walls, and the three stars lined up.

From this vantage point, he could see the gray crescent of the cofferdam, tracing an arc into the sea around the southern end of the island.

Susan took a Cranshaw melon from the counter and began cutting it into crescents.

Susan arranged her slices of cheese alternately on a large plate with her crescents of Cranshaw melon.

When you come out of that jewelry store, with Raymond Dagwood, give the crescent sign.

With the ship turned around for course correction, he could see the Moon glowing with Earthshine, and a bright crescent so thin it was almost a hair.

The sea was heartrendingly beautiful, the deepest blue they had ever seen, as it came rolling up against the crescent of the beach.