different between crust vs harm

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English harm, herm, from Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm, from Proto-Germanic *harmaz (“harm; shame; pain”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??m/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Noun

harm (countable and uncountable, plural harms)

1. physical injury; hurt; damage

2. emotional or figurative hurt
3. detriment; misfortune.

4. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "harm": bodily, physical, environmental, emotional, financial, serious, irreparable, potential, long-term, short-term, permanent, lasting, material, substantial.

Translations

Verb

harm (third-person singular simple present harms, present participle harming, simple past and past participle harmed)

1. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Hmar, mahr

Icelandic

Noun

harm

1. indefinite accusative singular of harmur

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha???m?/

Noun

harm

1. h-prothesized form of arm

Middle English

Alternative forms

• harem, arme, herme

Etymology

From Old English hearm, from Proto-West Germanic *harm.

Noun

harm (plural harms)

1. harm, injury, ruination

Descendants

• English: harm
• Scots: herm, hairm
• Yola: harrm

References

• “harm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *harmaz.

Noun

harm m

1. harm

Descendants

• Middle Low German: harm, herm