Look up: Crescent

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   Crescent
   Crescent is a geometrical form resembling the moon in its first quarter, and used as a charge in heraldry. It is perhaps bet known as the symbol of the Ottoman Turks and a symbol of Islam.
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   Crescent
   Crescent is a township in Iroquois County Illinois, USA Crescent is a town in Oneida County Wisconsin, USA Crescent is a township in Allegheny County Pennsylvania, USA Crescent is a city in Logan County Oklahoma, USA Crescent is a city in Pottawattamie County Iowa, USA
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   crescent
   [adj] - shaped as having two horns 2. [n] - any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
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   crescent
   Curved shape of the Moon when it appears less than half illuminated. It also refers to any object or symbol resembling the crescent Moon. Often associated with Islam, it was first used by the Turks...
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   Crescent
   Definition (keystage 3) A general word for the type of shape whose edges are two arcs facing in the same direction.
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   Crescent
   Cres'cent (krĕs's e nt) noun [ Middle English cressent , cressaunt , crescent (in sense 1), Old French creissant increasing, French croissant , present participle of croître , Old French creistre , from Latin crescere to increase, v. incho.; akin to creare to create. See Create , and confer Accrue , Increase< ...
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   Crescent
   Cres'cent (krĕs's e nt) adjective 1. Shaped like a crescent. « Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns. Milton. » 2. Increasing; growing. « O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set. Tennyson. »
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   Crescent
   Cres'cent transitive verb 1. To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent. [ R.] Anna Seward. 2. To adorn with crescents.
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   crescent
   1. Any figure of the shape of the moon in its first quarter. ... 2. The figure made by the gray columns or cornua on cross-section of the spinal cord. ... Synonym: malarial crescent. ... Origin: L. Cresco, pp. Cretus, to grow ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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    crescent
    noun any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
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    Crescent
    In art and symbolism, a `crescent` is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points (usually in such a manner that the enclosed shape does not include the center of the original circle). In astronomy, a crescent is the shape of the lit side of a spherical body (most notably ...
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    crescent
    (kres´әnt) shaped like a new moon. something with this shape. adj., crescen´tic., adj. Giannuzzi crescents crescent-shaped patches of serous cells surrounding the mucous tubercles in mixed glands. sublingual crescent the crescen...
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    Crescent
    • (v. t.) To adorn with crescents. • (v. t.) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent. • (n.) The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople. • (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a...
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    Crescent
    (from the article `Literary Voices for Islam in the West`) The virtue of the veiled woman that Aboulela portrays, however, is questioned by Diana Abu-Jaber, an Arab American writer, in Crescent (2003). Rana, ...
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    crescent
    political, military, and religious emblem of the Byzantine and Turkish empires and, later and more generally, of all Islmic countries.[6 related articles]
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    Crescent
    Crescent is a French girl name. The meaning of the name is `One Who Creates` From Old French. The name Crescent doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Crescent seems to be unique!
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    crescent
    crescent The crescent moon is so called because it is increasing in size from night to night. The word is used with reference to the moon only in its first quarter, and is applied to anything of similar shape.
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    Crescent
    A mysterious 1/4 moon shaped artifact found in the Great Basin area of the United States that may have been a blade form, or a scraper or a transverse hafted projectile point. It is found in one of three types: A crescent moon; a crescent half moon; a crescent butterfly shape.
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    crescent
    crescent, emblematic representation of the quarter moon. The crescent and star, ancient Byzantine symbols that became the emblems of Constantinople, were also assumed as the standard of the Ottoman Turks. The crescent surmounted by a cross indicates the origin of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The cre...
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