crescent

«crescent» in Mova's school dictionary: The curved shape of the Moon when only a thin part of it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a crescent, crescents); adjective (crescent)

meaning for a pupil

1) The curved shape of the Moon when only a thin part of it can be seen, like a slice of melon. tree →

2) Any shape like that, curved and thin with pointed ends. tree →

3) A curved street of houses (used in many UK, Australian and NZ street names). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, the crescent Moon is one of the phases of the Moon as it goes around the Earth. In maths and art, a crescent is a curved shape. In everyday life, many street names end in «Crescent». Phrases: «crescent moon», «a crescent shape».

examples

• There was a thin crescent moon in the sky. tree →
• The croissant is shaped like a crescent. tree →
• We live at 12 Oak Crescent. tree →
• Draw a crescent by drawing two curves that meet at the points. tree →
• The crescent moon grows a little bigger each night until it is full. tree →
• The red crescent is a symbol of an aid group, like the red cross. tree →
• The sun had long set, and the young moon had risen like a silver crescent in the sky. tree →

note

Countable: crescents. Spelling: «sc» in the middle. The Moon does not change shape; we just see different amounts of its sunlit side.

In the corpora

• Helpers like the Red Cross and Red Crescent stay neutral so they can reach every side.
• In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the fillets, and the crescents;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «crescent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.