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Crust

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Noun

1. crust, earth's crust

the outer layer of the Earth

2. crust, encrustation, incrustation

a hard outer layer that covers something

3. cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence

the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

Verb

4. crust

form a crust or form into a crust

Example Sentences:
'The bread crusted in the oven'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Crust

see synonyms of crust
noun
1. 
a. 
the hard outer part of bread
b. 
a piece of bread consisting mainly of this
2. 
the baked shell of a pie, tart, etc
3. 
any hard or stiff outer covering or surface
a crust of ice
4. 
the solid outer shell of the earth, with an average thickness of 30–35 km in continental regions and 5 km beneath the oceans, forming the upper part of the lithosphere and lying immediately above the mantle, from which it is separated by the Mohorovičić discontinuity
See also sial, sima
5. 
the dry covering of a skin sore or lesion; scab
6. 
a layer of acid potassium tartrate deposited by some wine, esp port, on the inside of the bottle
7. 
the hard outer layer of such organisms as lichens and crustaceans
8. slang
impertinence
9. British, Australian and New Zealand slang
a living (esp in the phrase earn a crust)
verb
10. 
to cover with or acquire a crust
11. 
to form or be formed into a crust

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Crust

see synonyms of crust
noun
1. 
a. 
the hard, crisp outer part of bread
b. 
a piece of this
c. 
any dry, hard piece of bread
2. 
the pastry shell of a pie
3. 
any hard surface layer, as of snow or soil
4. 
a hard deposit formed by wine on the inside surface of a bottle
5.  Slang
audacity; insolence; gall
6.  Geology
the solid, rocky outer portion or shell of the earth; lithosphere
7.  Medicine
a dry, hard outer layer of blood, pus, or other bodily secretion
verb transitive, verb intransitive
8. 
to cover or become covered with a crust
9. 
to form or harden into a crust

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Crust

see synonyms of crust
n.
1.
a. The hard outer portion or surface area of bread.
b. A piece of bread consisting mostly of the hard outer portion.
c. A piece of bread that has become hard and dry.
2. A pastry shell, as of a pie or tart.
3. A hard crisp covering or surface: snow with a firm crust.
4. A hard deposit formed on the interior of a wine bottle as the wine matures.
5. Geology
a. The solid, outermost layer of the earth, lying above the mantle.
b. The outermost solid layer of a planet or moon.
6. The hard outer covering or integument of certain plants and animals, such as lichens and crustaceans.
7. An outer layer or coating formed by the drying of a bodily exudate such as pus or blood; a scab.
8. Informal Insolence; audacity; gall.
v. crust·ed, crust·ing, crusts
v.tr.
1. To cover with a crust.
2. To form into a crust.
v.intr.
1. To become covered with a crust.
2. To harden into a crust.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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