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Definition: Crust |
CrustNoun1. The outer layer of the Earth. 2. A hard outer layer that covers something. 3. The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties. Verb1. Form a crust or form into a crust; "The bread crusted in the oven". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crust" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | A layer of solidified electrolyte. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a crust of bread, denotes incompetency, and threatened misery through carelessness in appointed duties. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | Uppermost shell of the earth, overlying the mantle above the Mohorovicic discontinuity. Normally the crust is entirely within the lithosphere of which it forms the upper layer. (Cf. "manteau" no 5103). Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Colouring matter and other substances deposited by some red wines during ageing in bottles and which adhere to the inner surface of the bottle. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Generally an outer layer, usually of clay or fine silt, which has been affected by desication or weathering. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | The thin outer layer of the Earth's surface, averaging about 10 kilometers thick under the oceans and up tp about 50 kilometers thick on the continents. This is the only layer of the Earth that humans have actually seen.<>. (references) |
| The outermost major layer of the earth, ranging from about 10 to 65 km in thickness worldwide. The uppermost 15-35 km of crust is brittle enough to produce earthquakes. (See also Earthquake ABC's). (references) | |
| The rocky, relatively low density, outermost layer of the Earth. (references) | |
| The Earth's outermost layer. (Teacher's Packet). (references) | |
Industry | Caking of materials on the refractory lining inside a kiln. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Crust The upper crust (of society). The aristocracy; the upper ten-thousand. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | The crust formed by the drying of the pus of an ulcer or a superficial sore. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The outermost layer or shell of the Earth, defined according to various criteria, including seismic velocity, density and composition; that part of the Earth above the Mohorovicic discontinuity, made up of the sial, or the sial and the sima. It represents less than 0.1% of the Earth's total volume. CF:tectonosphere b. A laminated, commonly crinkled deposit of algal dust, filamentous or bladed algae, or clots (from slightly arched forms to bulbous cabbagelike heads) of algae, formed on rocks, fossils, or other particulate matter byaccretion, aggregation, or flocculation. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: A word created to describe a type of music by those who played the music. Definition: A person who usually listens to rougher hardcore music. a crust generaly dresses in dark colors with many patches on their clothing. more often that not he is politicaly anarchist minded. Context: Used by people outside of the crust scene to refer to a person. when used to describe the type of music it is only used within the crust scene. Social Source: Punk rock subculture. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Crust can refer to the outer layer of a planet, its lithosphere. Planetary crusts are generally composed of a less dense material than that of deeper layers. On partially-molten planets, such as Earth, the crust is floating on fluid interior layers. Such floating crusts are often broken into tectonic plates that, because of fluidity underneath, can move (see continental drift).
Crust can refer to the outer edge of baked bread or the shell of a pie.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crust."
Synonyms: CrustSynonyms: cheekiness (n), encrustation (n), freshness (n), gall (n), impertinence (n), impudence (n), incrustation (n), insolence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat; eggshell, glume. |
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Screenplays | He's got his crust all stiff and upper with that nancy boy accent (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You are eye crust! (Moonlighting; writing credit: Eric Blakeney) It's following a fissure, a flaw, in the earth's crust known as the Macedo Fault (Crack in the World; writing credit: Jon Manchip White) Seething animal passions about to erupt through the pie crust of decorum (Bedrooms and Hallways; writing credit: Robert Farrar) | |
Lyrics | There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread (King Of Pain; performing artist: The Police) I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread (JUMPING JACK FLASH; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
Tongue Twisters | Crisp crust crackles. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Upper Crust (1917) For the Upper Crust (1903) Over the Crust (1902) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (1) color slide shows two tamales on a plate. (traditional mexican dish made of mixed and seasoned meat in a corn meal crust served inside corn husks). Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | A lump that bleeds or develops a crust may indicate skin cancer. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | On the border between Chile and the Catamarca province of Argentina lies a vast field of currently dormant volcanoes. Over time, these volcanoes have laid down a crust of magma roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) thick. It is tinged with a patina of various colors that can indicate both the age and mineral content of the original lava flows. Credit: NASA. |  | Trays containing rock slabs deployed on ferro-manganese crust at Cross Seamount. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Cryptogammic crust (microbiotic lichens, mosses, and etc.). Credit: Unknown. |  | Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Intensity of the earth's magnetic field, something a mining engineer needs to know if he is looking for vital metals under the crust of the earth, may be measured by the horizontal magnetometer and the vertical m. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fighting sand. Childress County, Texas Panhandle. Cultivating weedless cotton fields in Great Plains to break crust and prevent blowing sand from cutting young cotton plants. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "The Crust", St. Luc, Switzerland, 1975. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aesop | A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. |
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King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The driver munched the branded pie and threw the crust away |
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Health | Aluminum is a common element in the Earth's crust and is found in small amounts in numerous household products and in many foods. (references) | |
At other times, blisters appear that may be very small and barely noticeable, or they may break into open sores that crust over and then disappear. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Crust" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.91% of the time. "Crust" is used about 644 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.91% | 637 | 10,219 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.47% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 644 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "crust": bread crust ♦ Cobalt crust ♦ crust of bread ♦ crust of the earth ♦ crust over ♦ crust round the eyes ♦ earth's crust ♦ form a crust ♦ ice crust ♦ Inflammatory crust ♦ milk crust ♦ pie crust ♦ the earth's crust ♦ the upper crust ♦ upper crust. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crust": crust-like, crust-mantle. | |
Ending with "crust": upper-crust. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crust"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vë kore, sipërfaqe e fortë, pafytyrëzi, kurajë (courage, grit, heart, pecker, pluck), kore (incrustation, scab), dregëz (scab). (various references) | |
Arabic | كسا بقشرة, قطعة من قشرة, قشرة الخبز, وجه الكعكة, الغلاف الخارجي, إكتسى بقشرة, أديم الأرض, بشكل قشرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | утайка (deposit, drains, dregs, faeces, feculence, grouts, offscourings, precipitate, precipitation, ragtag, residue, residuum, rinsings, sediment, sludge, warp), хващам кора, черупка (Bushing, envelope, house, husk, old tub, shell, shuck, test, Testa), кора (bark, cortex, cover, heel, incrustation, jacket, rind, skin), коричка (incrustation, scab, scale), нахалство (arrogance, cheek, contumely, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, lip, mouth, neck, nerve, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), налеп от шлака. (various references) | |
Chinese | 麵包皮 , 外壳 (Crustaceous). (various references) | |
Czech | okorat (chap), kùrka, kùra (bark, cortex, Peel, rind, skin), škraloup (skin). (various references) | |
Danish | crusta, udtoerringsskorpe, toerskorpe, skorpe (cake, rind, scab), sårskorpe (clot, coagulation, scab), rulledej, knast (boss, cam finger, dowel, gnarl, heel, knot, lever boss, lifter, peg, wiper), jordskorpe (earths crust, earth's crust), bundfald (bad settlings, base, basic sediments, basic sediments and water, basic sludge and water, bottom, bottom sediments, bottom sediments and water, bottom settlings, BS and W, bushwash, deposit, masking, précipitation, precipitate, precipitation, sediment, sediments and water), blodskorpe (clot, coagulation, scab). (various references) | |
Dutch | crusta phlogistica (clot, coagulation, scab), crusta (scab), uitgerold deeg, taartbodem, schors (bark, husk, peel, shell), korstdepot, korst (bark, rhytidome, rind, scab), droogtekorst, drijflaag, deegbodem, aardkorst (crust of the earth, earth's crust). (various references) | |
Esperanto | terkrusto (crust of the earth, earth's crust). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوسته سخت هرچیزی , پوست نان , کبره بستن , کبره , قسمت خشک وسخت نان , قشر (Cortex, Hull, Peeling, Rind, Shell, Stratum), ادم جسوروبی ادب . (various references) | |
Finnish | kuori (bark, case, chancel, choir, fruit skin, hull, husk, jacket, peel, shell). (various references) | |
French | croûte (crustiness), abaisse. (various references) | |
German | Kruste (crackling, crisped outside, encrustation), schorf (scab, scaly skin, scurf, Slough). (various references) | |
Greek | κρούστα (cake), κόρα, καύκαλο (carapace, skull). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקרום, ל"קרים (form a crust), ל"'לי" (gel, skin over), קרום עו'". (various references) | |
Hungarian | kéreg (bark, cortex, rind, shell, skin), var (scab, scale), lerakódás (alluvium, bed, foot, lodgement, lodgment, sediment, sedimentation, settlings, sludge, subsidence), heg (callus, cicatrice, cicatrices, cicatrix, scab, scar), héj (carapace, cod, Hull, husk, jacket, peel, rind, scale, shell, shuck, skin). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kerak. (various references) | |
Italian | crosta (cake, rind, scab, scurf). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "殻 (carapace, shell), "殻 (carapace, shell), 外被 (hull, husk, investment, outer skin or layer, rind), 外皮 (hull, husk, investment, outer skin or layer, rind), 外殻 (shell), クラスター分析 (class library, class magazine, class media, classmate, cluster analysis, clustering, clutch, clutch bag, clutch hitter, clutch pedal, crack, cracker, cracking, craft, craft design, craftsman, crash, crusher). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がいひ (hull, husk, investment, outer skin or layer, rind), がいかく (contour, external angle, outer block, outer wall, outline, outside corner, overseas guest or customer, shell), "うかく (anat promontory, angle of intersection, carapace, corners of the mouth, demotion, high shelf, high-angle, optic or photic sense, promontory, shell, tall building, wide-angle), クラスト . (various references) | |
Korean | 빵 껍질. (various references) | |
Manx | scrug, scroig (incrustation, scab, scale, scarf-skin, slime), bleayst (bang, body, gill cover, hull, husk, shell, shield). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skorpe, skare (host). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | crosta (bark, bread crust, daub, husk, peel, piecrust, rind, shell, skin). (various references) | |
Romanian | crustã (incrustation, rind, scab, scurf, skin), coajã (bark, cortex, Hull, husk, jacket, leather, peeling, rind, scale, scurf, shell, skin), cherestea (build, lumber, sawn wood, timber), cãmaşã (chemise, jacket, sheathing, shirt), se acoperi cu o coajã, obraz (appearance, aspect, cheek, countenance, face, index, skin), înveliş (cap, casement, casing, clothing, coat, coating, cover, dress, envelopment, film, integument, jacket, lap, layer, mantle, shroud, skin). (various references) | |
Russian | корка (crud, incrustation, peeling, rind, scab, shell). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | korica, kora (bark, cortex, peel, rind, scum, scurf). (various references) | |
Spanish | costra (incrustation, rind, scab). (various references) | |
Swedish | skorpa (biscuit, rusk, scab, zwieback). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzsüzlük (boldness, cheek, cheekiness, coolness, effrontery, front, gall, impudence, nerve, sauciness, shamelessness), tortu (deposit, deposition, draff, dregs, faeces, fecula, feculence, foots, grounds, Lees, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, sediment, settlings, tailings), kuru ekmek, kabuklanmak (crust over, pod, scab, scale), kabuk (bark, carapace, coat, cockle, cockleshell, cortes, covering, encrustation, eschar, Hull, husk, incrustation, integument, jacket, mantle, nutshell, Peel, pod, rind, scab, scale, scurf, shell, shuck, skin, squama), buz tutmak (freeze, ice over, ice up), arsızlık (audacity, cheek, cheekiness, effrontery, encroaching vigor, flippancy, front, hardihood, hardiness, immodesty, importunity, impudence, insolence, pertness, sauce, shamelessness). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gyсak (crust (of bread), little slice). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | струп (eschar, scab), кірка, наст, панцир (armature, armour, shell). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cùi bánh, vỏ bánh, tầng lớp trên của xã hội kiếm miếng ăn hằng ng y, sự vô liêm sỉ tầng lớp thượng lưu, mẩu bán mì khô vỏ cứng. (various references) | |
Welsh | crystyn, crwst, crest (scurf), crawen, cramen (scab). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crusta, crustula. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | rind. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crust": crustacea, crustacean, crustaceans, crustaceous, crustal, crusted, crustier, crustiest, crustily, crustiness, crustinesses, crusting, crustless, crustose, crusts, crusty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crust": becrust, encrust, incrust, piecrust. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crust": becrusted, becrusting, becrusts, encrustation, encrustations, encrusted, encrusting, encrusts, incrustation, incrustations, incrusted, incrusting, incrusts, piecrusts, procrustean, subcrustal. (additional references) | |
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"Crust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caust, chust, clust, coust, Crauste, cresta, cresto, Creusot, crist, crost, crsut, cruft, cruit, crunt, crusk, Cruzatt, cruzi, cust, ecruts, grust, icrisat, krist, Krust. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crust" (pronounced kru"st) |
| 5 | k r u" s t | encrust, incrust. |
| 4 | -r u" s t | antitrust, distrust, entrust, mistrust, rust, thrust, trust. |
| 3 | -u" s t | adjust, bused, bussed, bust, Combust, cussed, discussed, disgust, dust, fussed, gust, just, lust, must, nonplussed, readjust, robust, unjust. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: curst. | |
| Words within the letters "c-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: crus, curs, curt, cuts, rust, ruts, scut. | |
-2 letters: cur, cut, rut, uts. | |
-3 letters: us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: citrus, courts, cruets, cruset, crusts, crusty, curets, curtsy, eructs, rectus, recuts, rictus, rustic, struck, truces, trucks. | |
+2 letters: accurst, becrust, becurst, citrous, citrusy, cluster, couters, crudest, crusets, crustal, crusted, curates, curites, curtals, curtest, curtesy, curtsey, curvets, custard, cutlers, cutters, encrust, fractus, icterus, incrust, precuts, rectums, relucts, rustics, scouter, scrotum, scutter, surcoat, tuckers, turacos. | |
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