crescent

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Both had about the same apparent size, with Jupiter round as usual, while Venus had a very pronounced crescent.

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Quick take

Something shaped like a crescent, especially:

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of crescent gathered in one view.

noun

Something shaped like a crescent, especially:

noun

A curved pastry.

noun

A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crescent.

noun

Something shaped like a crescent, especially:

noun

A curved pastry.

noun

A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.

noun

A crescentspot butterfly.

Example sentences

Both had about the same apparent size, with Jupiter round as usual, while Venus had a very pronounced crescent.

Just like Hamburgers should only be eaten if passed through a drive-thru window and Croissants eaten under a waning crescent moon.

It is located in the middle of the fertile crescent: the birthplace of civilization.

The Crescent Bay prototype used the drivers from porta-pros, which are pretty good.

I own a DK2 and have demoed Crescent Bay several times this year and have a hard time believing this.

Do you think the crescent bay prototype is at that point?

I used a DK2 and a Crescent Bay back to back, and literally could not tell the difference aside from the headphones.

I never got to use Crescent Bay, but I've got a DK2 at home.

I'm genuinely surprised we didn't see a DK3 in crescent bay before commercial release.

That said, I think Crescent Bay would help to solve the problem.

I was able to get a demo of the Crescent Bay prototype (hand-built tech demo of the consumer version) at PAX East this year.

I've tried it up until Crescent Bay, and it's fabulous.

Quote examples

The only NGOs "represented" at the United Nations[1] are the Red Cross/Crescent, IPU, IOC and Knights of Malta.

Interestingly, it was discussed as part of a more recent theory that the "origins of civilizations" were really in the Anatolian highlands, a region distinct from the fertile crescent.

Jared Diamond explains in "Guns, Germs & Steel" that coffee beans were first domesticated in what's currently Ethiopia, yes, and from there it spreaded through Eurasia via de Fertile Crescent.

In fact, the release Rift hardware is more or less the Crescent Bay prototype they started demoing last September, and that was pretty close to Valve's "room demo" circa January of last year.

Proper noun examples

⚫ Arable land through the Middle East and Fertile Crescent.

If you want a location, then I suggest: grab a spectrum analyser; head to Knightsbridge; tell me what happens when you get close to Hans Crescent; then look on the corner and guess why.