crust
crusts; crusted; crusting
The crust is a hard layer that forms on the outside of something, like a loaf of bread. Little kids often like their sandwiches with the crust cut off.
You’ve probably eaten lots of crusts — bread crust, pie crust — any food that’s hard on the outside and soft on the inside has a crust. Crust is also a verb meaning “to form a hard outer layer.” Crusting happens with more than just food, like when a layer of dirt crusts your clothes after a romp in the mud. The Earth has a hard crust too. Little kids don’t like to eat that either, usually.
Definitions of crust
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a hard outer layer that covers something
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synonyms:
encrustation, incrustation
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the outer layer of the Earth
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synonyms:
Earth's crust
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types:
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horst
a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land
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crustal plate, plate
a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
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type of:
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layer
a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
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horst
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form a crust or form into a crust“The bread crusted in the oven”
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type of:
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change surface
undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface
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change surface
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the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
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synonyms:
cheekiness, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence
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type of:
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discourtesy, rudeness
a manner that is rude and insulting
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discourtesy, rudeness
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