Crescent

Noun

 * 1) The figure of the moon as it appears in its first or last quarter, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
 * 2) Something shaped like a crescent, especially:
 * 3) A curved pastry.
 * 4) A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.

Derived terms

 * crescent roll
 * Fertile Crescent

Adjective

 * 1)  marked by an increase; waxing, as the moon;

Adjectives
silvery; paling; sardonic; delicate; sharp; black; stormy.

Verbs
adopt—as; attach—; carry—; carve—; decorate with—; design—; employ—; form —; mold—; ornament with—; rest upon—; shape—; trace—; —embellishes; —fades; —glimmers; —signifies; —symbolizes.

Thesaurus
Autobahn, Cynthian, S-shaped, US highway, achievement, alerion, alley, alleyway, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, artificial satellite, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, belt highway, bend, bend sinister, biconcave, bicorn, billet, blazon, blazonry, blind alley, blooming, blossoming, bordure, boulevard, broad arrow, budding, burgeoning, bypass, byway, cadency mark, camino real, canton, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaplet, charge, chaussee, chevron, chief, circle, circumferential, circus, close, coat of arms, cockatrice, corduroy road, corniform, coronet, county road, court, crescendoing, crescent moon, crescent-shaped, crescentic, crescentiform, crescentlike, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, decrescent, decrescent moon, demilune, developed, device, difference, differencing, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, expanding, expressway, falcate, falciform, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, florescent, flourishing, flowering, freeway, fret, full moon, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, fur, fusil, garland, gibbous moon, gravel road, griffin, growing, grown, grown-up, gules, gyron, half circle, half-moon, harvest moon, hatchment, helmet, hemicycle, heraldic device, highroad, highway, highways and byways, honor point, horn-shaped, horned, horseshoe, hypertrophied, impalement, impaling, increasing, incremental, increscent, increscent moon, inescutcheon, intensifying, interstate highway, label, lane, lengthening, lion, local road, lozenge, lunar, lunate, lunette, luniform, lunula, lunular, lunule, main drag, main road, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mature, menisciform, meniscoid, meniscus, metal, mews, moon, moon-shaped, moonlike, motorway, motto, mullet, multiplying, new moon, nombril point, octofoil, on the increase, or, orb of night, ordinary, orle, overdeveloped, overgrown, pale, paly, parkway, pave, paved road, pean, pheon, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, proliferating, purpure, quadrant, quarter, quartering, queen of heaven, queen of night, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, rose, route nationale, row, royal road, sable, saltire, satellite, scutcheon, scythe, secondary road, sector, semicircle, semicircular, semilunar, sextant, shield, sickle, sickle-like, sickle-shaped, sigmoid, silvery moon, snowballing, speedway, spread eagle, spreading, sprouting, state highway, street, subordinary, superhighway, swelling, tenne, terrace, the wandering Moon, thoroughfare, thriving, through street, thruway, tightening, tincture, toll road, torse, township road, tressure, turnpike, two-horned, unicorn, vair, vert, waning crescent moon, waning moon, waxing, waxing crescent moon, waxing moon, wet moon, wreath, wynd, yale

Etymology
From crescens:, present active participle of cresco:.

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian:
 * Danish: halvmåne
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,


 * Italian: crescente, falce
 * Japanese: 月型, 月形
 * Macedonian: полумесечина
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: månesigd
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:


 * Croatian: roščić, kiflica
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Italian: cornetto
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: кифла

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: нарастващ
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: δρεπανοειδής, μηνοειδής
 * Russian: растущий