crust

Meaning

1. A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
2. The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.
3. An outer layer composed of pastry
4. The bread-like base of a pizza.
5. A slice of bread cut from the end of a loaf; the heel.
6. The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
7. The outermost layer of any terrestrial planet.
8. The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
9. (informal) A living.
10. (informal) Nerve, gall.
11. (slang) The head.
12. Ellipsis of crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)

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Earth’s crust

earth’s crust

scar over

crust of the earth

casting skin

earth shell

flux envelope

flux cover

surface crusting

snow crust

earth's crust

become encrusted

become caked

hard snow crust

earth crust

egg shell

hard outer covering

hard surface

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹʌst/

From Middle English cruste, from Anglo-Norman and Old French cruste, from Latin crusta (“hard outer covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”), related to Old Norse hroðr (“scurf”), Old English hruse (“earth”), Old High German hrosa (“crust, ice”), Latvian kruvesis (“frozen mud”), Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬎𐬰𐬛𐬭𐬀- (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रूड् (krūḍ, “thicken, make hard”).

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