| NOUN | object | crust, Earth's crust | the outer layer of the Earth |
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| object | crust, incrustation, encrustation | a hard outer layer that covers something | |
| attribute | crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness | the trait of being rude and impertinent | |
| VERB | change | crust | form a crust or form into a crust |
| Sounds | krah'st | |
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| Rhymes | abolitionist ... zoologist: 193 rhymes with ahst... | |
| Meaning | The outer layer of the Earth. | |
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| Synonym | Earth's crust | |
| Part of | lithosphere, geosphere | The solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle |
| Parts | asthenosphere | The lower layer of the crust |
| Narrower | horst | A ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land |
| plate, crustal plate | A rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly | |
| Broader | layer | A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another |
| Substances | sial | The granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust |
| sima | rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust | |
| Spanish | corteza, corteza terrestre | |
| Catalan | escorça terrestre | |
| Adjectives | crustal | of or relating to or characteristic of the crust of the earth or moon |
| Meaning | A hard outer layer that covers something. | |
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| Synonyms | incrustation, encrustation | |
| Narrower | tartar, calculus, tophus | An incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums |
| Broader | covering, natural covering, cover | A natural object that covers or envelops |
| Spanish | costra, incrustación | |
| Catalan | crosta, incrustació | |
| Adjectives | crustaceous | being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell |
| crustose | (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing | |
| crusty | having a hardened crust as a covering | |
| Verbs | crust | form a crust or form into a crust |
| Meaning | The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties. | |
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| Synonyms | gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness | |
| Narrower | chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah | (Yiddish) unbelievable gall |
| Broader | discourtesy, rudeness | A manner that is rude and insulting |
| Spanish | atrevimiento, descaro, desvergüenza, impertinencia, insolencia, procacidad | |
| Catalan | barra, descaradura, impertinència, insolència | |
| Adjectives | crusty | brusque and surly and forbidding |
| Meaning | form a crust or form into a crust. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "The bread crusted in the oven" | |
| Entails | dry, dry out | Become dry or drier |
| Broader | change surface | Undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface |
| Catalan | encrostrar | |
| Nouns | crust | a hard outer layer that covers something |
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