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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#m1)

2) Any shape like that, curved and thin with pointed ends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#m2)

3) A curved street of houses (used in many UK, Australian and NZ street names). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#x1)
- The croissant is shaped like a crescent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#x2)
- We live at 12 Oak Crescent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#x3)
- Draw a crescent by drawing two curves that meet at the points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#x4)
- The crescent moon grows a little bigger each night until it is full. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#x5)
- The red crescent is a symbol of an aid group, like the red cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#x6)
- The sun had long set, and the young moon had risen like a silver crescent in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/30-refugees-aid-and-sanctions-how-the-world-helps-and-pushes/7/)
- [In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the fillets, and the crescents;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.74/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crescent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crescent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.