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 quarters Crescent \
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 .
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2 .
Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon .
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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 .
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The cross of our faith is replanted ,
The pale ,
dying crescent is daunted . --
Campbell .
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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 .
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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 .
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Crescent \
Cres "
cent \ (
kr [
e ^]
s "
sent ),
a .
1 .
Shaped like a crescent .
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Astarte ,
queen of heaven ,
with crescent horns .
--
Milton .
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2 .
Increasing ;
growing .
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O ,
I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set . --
Tennyson .
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Crescent \
Cres "
cent \,
v .
t .
1 .
To form into a crescent ,
or something resembling a crescent . [
R .] --
Anna Seward .
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2 .
To adorn with crescents .
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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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