crust
part of speech
noun (a crust, crusts); verb (crust, crusts, crusted, crusting — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) The hard outer part of a loaf or slice of bread. tree →
2) The pastry base or top of a pie or pizza. tree →
3) A hard layer on top of something soft, like frozen snow or dried mud. tree →
4) The thin, rocky outer layer of the Earth. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, the Earth's crust is the outer layer we live on, above the mantle and core. In everyday life children talk about bread crusts and pizza crusts. Phrases: «the Earth's crust», «pizza crust», «cut the crusts off», «a crust of ice».
examples
- I don't like the crusts on my sandwiches. tree →
- This pizza has a thin, crispy crust. tree →
- The pie crust was golden brown. tree →
- The Earth's crust is thinner under the oceans. tree →
- A crust of ice formed on the puddle. tree →
- Earthquakes happen when parts of the crust move. tree →
- Eat your crusts; they are just bread. tree →
- Then she gave her a hard crust of bread, saying: tree →
note
Countable: crusts. Myth: eating crusts does not make your hair curly. The Earth's crust is thin compared with the whole Earth, like the skin of an apple.
In the corpora
- The white crust on a leaking battery can burn skin, so it should not be touched with bare hands.
- Every day for three weeks, Noah in Austin threw his sandwich in the school bin because he did not like the crusts.
- Noah said sorry and asked for no crusts, and now he eats it all.
- The crust is only about 5-10 km thick under the oceans and about 30-70 km thick under the continents.
- The crust and the stiff top of the mantle together form the lithosphere, the hard shell that is broken into plates.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «crust» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.