crescent 的 2 个定义
- a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
- something, as a roll or cookie, having this shape.
- Astronomy. the figure of the moon in its first or last quarter, resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.the similar figure of Mercury and Venus on either side of inferior conjunction, when seen through a telescope.
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- shaped like a crescent.
- increasing; growing.
crescent 近义词
sickle-shaped
sickle-shaped object
更多crescent例句
- If partly to mostly cloudy skies allow a glimpse, check out the sliver of new crescent moon on the western horizon with Mars and Venus in conjunction.
- The sliver of a new crescent moon on the western horizon with Mars and Venus in conjunction is likely to be obscured early Sunday evening but has a better chance to be seen Monday evening.
- For this week’s Classic, let’s take a closer look at a waxing crescent moon.
- The industry has its critics, such as Prince William residents concerned that data centers will spoil the beauty of its western rural crescent.
- The crescent-shaped pastries called shekerbura, filled with crushed hazelnuts, sugar and cardamom, look more like something to admire as art than ravage with fingers and teeth.
- Leaving the OR that night, I looked up the clear sky, at the flocks of white seagulls and a sliver of crescent moon.
- Tipitina's in the warm blue fog, squatting beneath a crescent moon so sharp and clean you could shave a wild hog with it.
- More Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers have been killed in this conflict than in any other since records have been kept.
- The head of Iran's Red Crescent rescue corps, Mahmoud Mozafar, said communications to the stricken areas have been cut.
- The Syrian Arab Red Crescent recently estimated that 2.5 million people have been displaced within the country.
- The valve-seat H has formed on its lower surface two crescent shaped long and narrow slits.
- From her windows could be seen the crescent of the river, the masts of ships and the big chimneys of the Mississippi steamers.
- It floated out upon the night, over the housetops, the crescent of the river, losing itself in the silence of the upper air.
- On either horn of the crescent by which the pebbles are imported into the pocket we find the largest fragments.
- They are ranged around a crescent-shaped table formed of cushions, and wear festive crowns upon their heads.