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crescent 音标拼音: [kr'ɛsənt] n. 新月,新月形之物
a. 新月形的,逐渐增加的 新月,新月形之物新月形的,逐渐增加的 crescent adj 1: resembling the new moon in shape [ synonym: { crescent( a)}, { crescent- shaped}, { semilunar}, { lunate}] n 1: any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quartersCrescent \ Cres" cent\ ( kr[ e^] s" sent), n. [ OE. cressent, cressaunt, crescent ( in sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr. of cro[^ i] tre, OF. creistre, fr. L. crescere to increase, v. incho.; akin to creare to create. See { Create}, and cf. { Accrue}, { Increase}, { Crescendo}.] 1. The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge; as: ( a) A symbol of Artemis, or Diana. ( b) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople. Hence: ( c) The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople. [ 1913 Webster] The cross of our faith is replanted, The pale, dying crescent is daunted. -- Campbell. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Ren[' e] of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services. -- Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Her.) The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. [ 1913 Webster]
Crescent \ Cres" cent\ ( kr[ e^] s" sent), a. 1. Shaped like a crescent. [ 1913 Webster] Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Increasing; growing. [ 1913 Webster] O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster]
Crescent \ Cres" cent\, v. t. 1. To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent. [ R.] -- Anna Seward. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To adorn with crescents. [ 1913 Webster] 276 Moby Thesaurus words for " crescent": Autobahn, Cynthian, S- shaped, US highway, achievement, alerion, alley, alleyway, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, artificial satellite, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, belt highway, bend, bend sinister, biconcave, bicorn, billet, blazon, blazonry, blind alley, blooming, blossoming, bordure, boulevard, broad arrow, budding, burgeoning, bypass, byway, cadency mark, camino real, canton, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaplet, charge, chaussee, chevron, chief, circle, circumferential, circus, close, coat of arms, cockatrice, corduroy road, corniform, coronet, county road, court, crescendoing, crescent moon, crescent- shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cul- de- sac, dead- end street, decrescent, decrescent moon, demilune, developed, device, difference, differencing, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, expanding, expressway, falcate, falciform, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur- de- lis, florescent, flourishing, flowering, freeway, fret, full moon, full- fledged, full- grown, fully developed, fur, fusil, garland, gibbous moon, gravel road, griffin, growing, grown, grown- up, gules, gyron, half circle, half- moon, harvest moon, hatchment, helmet, hemicycle, heraldic device, highroad, highway, highways and byways, honor point, horn- shaped, horned, horseshoe, hypertrophied, impalement, impaling, increasing, incremental, increscent, increscent moon, inescutcheon, intensifying, interstate highway, label, lane, lengthening, lion, local road, lozenge, lunar, lunate, lunette, luniform, lunula, lunular, lunule, main drag, main road, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mature, menisciform, meniscoid, meniscus, metal, mews, moon, moon- shaped, moonlike, motorway, motto, mullet, multiplying, new moon, nombril point, octofoil, on the increase, or, orb of night, ordinary, orle, overdeveloped, overgrown, pale, paly, parkway, pave, paved road, pean, pheon, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, proliferating, purpure, quadrant, quarter, quartering, queen of heaven, queen of night, right- of- way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, rose, route nationale, row, royal road, sable, saltire, satellite, scutcheon, scythe, secondary road, sector, semicircle, semicircular, semilunar, sextant, shield, sickle, sickle- like, sickle- shaped, sigmoid, silvery moon, snowballing, speedway, spread eagle, spreading, sprouting, state highway, street, subordinary, superhighway, swelling, tenne, terrace, the wandering Moon, thoroughfare, thriving, through street, thruway, tightening, tincture, toll road, torse, township road, tressure, turnpike, two- horned, unicorn, vair, vert, waning crescent moon, waning moon, waxing, waxing crescent moon, waxing moon, wet moon, wreath, wynd, yale
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