different between coagulate vs crust

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin co?gul?, co?gul?tus, from co?gulum (“a means of curdling, rennet”), from c?g? (“bring together, gather, collect”), from co- (“together”) + ag? (“do, make, drive”). Doublet of quail. Displaced native Middle English irennen, from Old English ?erinnan, but not native curdle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k???æ?.j?.le?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko??æ?.j?.le?t/

Verb

coagulate (third-person singular simple present coagulates, present participle coagulating, simple past and past participle coagulated)

1. (intransitive) To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass.

2. (transitive) To cause to congeal.

Antonyms

• dissolve, melt

Derived terms

• coagulation
• coagulant

Related terms

• coagulum

Translations

Adjective

coagulate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Coagulated.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, II. ii. 460:

     roasted in wrath and fire, / And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k???æ?.j?.l?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko??æ?.j?.l?t/

Noun

coagulate (plural coagulates)

1. A mass formed by means of coagulation.

Translations

References

• coagulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• coagulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• coagulate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• catalogue

Italian

Verb

coagulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of coagulare
2. second-person plural imperative of coagulare
3. feminine plural of coagulato

Latin

Verb

co?gul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of co?gul?

English

Etymology

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 ????? (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), ?????????? (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan ????????????????????????????-? (xruzdra-, “hard”), Sanskrit ?????? (kr??, “thicken, make hard”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

crust (countable and uncountable, plural crusts)

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

   • Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
4. The bread-like base of a pizza.
5. (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
6. The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
7. (uncountable, informal) Nerve, gall.
8. (music) Ellipsis of crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
9. (Britain, informal) A living.

   Synonyms: daily bread, income, livelihood

   • 1999, Norman Longworth, Making Lifelong Learning Work: Learning Cities for a Learning Century, Psychology Press (?ISBN), page 1:

     Like most of us, I am frequently asked by friends and people I meet in business situations or round the dinner table what I do to earn my crust.

Derived terms

• upper crust

Related terms

• crusted
• crusty
• encrust

Translations

Verb

crust (third-person singular simple present crusts, present participle crusting, simple past and past participle crusted)

1. (transitive) To cover with a crust.
   • 1662, Robert Boyle, An Account of Freezing

     The whole body is crusted over with ice.

   • 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics

     Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.

2. (intransitive) To form a crust.

Translations

Anagrams

• cruts, curst, curts