crescent
Pronunciation: [ˈkrɛs.ənt]
Word
Context: "shapes"
(noun) a shape that looks like a bright, curved slice of the moon. When the moon is growing and looks like a thin silver smile, it's called a crescent moon.
Example
Last night, I saw a beautiful crescent in the sky.
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The moon wasn't a crescent; it was full and bright.
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Have you ever seen a crescent moon?
Context: "geometry"
(noun) a shape that is like a slice or part of a circle. You can think of it as a moon slice that is curved on one side and flat on the other.
Example
The baker shaped the dough into a crescent for the croissants.
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He tried to make a crescent out of a square piece of paper, but it didn't work.
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What other shapes can you create besides a crescent?
Context: "appearance"
(adjective) describing something that has the shape of a crescent. It looks like the moon and is often used to describe items that are curved smoothly.
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She wore a crescent-shaped pendant around her neck.
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The necklace was not crescent-shaped; it was a perfect circle.
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What color is the crescent object you found?
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