All crescent synonyms
cres·cent
C c noun crescent
- curve — A curve is a smooth, gradually bending line, for example part of the edge of a circle.
- bow — When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body towards them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- sickle — an implement for cutting grain, grass, etc., consisting of a curved, hooklike blade mounted in a short handle.
- half-moon — the ship in which Henry Hudson made his voyage to explore America in 1609.
- blow one's own horn — If you blow your own horn, you boast about yourself.
- demilune — an outwork in front of a fort, shaped like a crescent moon
- lune — a line for securing a hawk.
- new moon — the moon either when in conjunction with the sun or soon after, being either invisible or visible only as a slender crescent.
- old moon — waning moon.
- horseshoe — a U -shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
- arc — An arc is a smoothly curving line or movement.
- loop — a hot bloom of pasty consistency, to be worked under a hammer or in rolls.
- bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
adj crescent
- bowed — Something that is bowed is curved.
- concave — A surface that is concave curves inwards in the middle.
- convex — Convex is used to describe something that curves outwards in the middle.
- curved — A curved object has the shape of a curve or has a smoothly bending surface.
- crescentic — a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
- falcate — curved like a scythe or sickle; hooked; falciform.
- semicircular — Also called semicircumference [sem-ee-ser-kuhm-fer-uh ns, -fruh ns, sem-ahy-] /ˌsɛm i sərˈkʌm fər əns, -frəns, ˌsɛm aɪ-/ (Show IPA). half of a circle; the arc from one end of a diameter to the other.
adjective crescent
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- arced — Geometry. any unbroken part of the circumference of a circle or other curved line.