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How to pronounce crescent in English?

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Synonyms crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar
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Type of curve, curved shape

Examples of crescent

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The X-ray Venus is slightly less than a half-crescent and brighter on the limbs.
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By Wednesday morning, a very thin crescent will hang just to the right of Venus.
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Shaped like a crescent, Brazil nuts aren't technically a nut but an edible seed.
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The position of the crescent-shaped meniscus between the liquids shows the hour.
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In the centre, there is an upward-facing red crescent enveloped in a white disc.
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The Armada was in a defensive formation in a crescent convexed towards the east.
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In the center, there is an upward-facing red crescent enveloped in a white disc.
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The Seljuks were organized into a crescent formation about four kilometres away.
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The settled on a blue field, a white palmetto and a white crescent in the corner.
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More examples
  • Crescent(a): resembling the new moon in shape
  • In art and symbolism, a crescent is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points (usually in such a manner that the ...
  • The Crescent is a passenger train operated by Amtrak in the eastern part of the United States. It runs daily from Pennsylvania Station in New York City to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in New Orleans, Louisiana as train 19 and returns, on the same route, as train 20. ...
  • A crescent is an architectural structure where a number of houses, normally linked town houses, are laid out in an arc to form of a crescent shape. A famous historic crescent is the Royal Crescent in Bath, England.
  • Crescent are an alternative music band from Bristol, England, formed in the early 1990s by Matt Jones (guitar, vocals and other instruments), Chris Locke (bass on early albums) and Jasper Larsen (drums and percussion). ...
  • Nymanbolagen was the name of a well-known Swedish bicycle, moped, and motorcycle company in Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Crescent, originally called the Crescent Tool Company, is a brand of hand tools. Founded in 1907, the Crescent brand has changed ownership multiple times. It is currently owned by Cooper Industries as part of its Cooper Hand Tools division. ...
  • Phyciodes, commonly called the Crescents or Crescentspots is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Nymphalinae in the family Nymphalidae.
  • Crescent is an album released by Gackt on December 3, 2003. It is conceptually linked to its predecessor Moon and comes with booklets for both records (Moon did not originally contain one). ...