different between thicken vs crust

English

Etymology

From Middle English thickenen, thikkenen, equivalent to thick +? -en. Cognate with Swedish tjockna (“to thicken”), Icelandic þykkna (“to thicken”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???k?n/
• Rhymes: -?k?n

Verb

thicken (third-person singular simple present thickens, present participle thickening, simple past and past participle thickened)

1. (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
2. (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).

3. (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).
4. (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
5. (transitive) To strengthen; to confirm.
6. (transitive) To make more frequent.

Synonyms

• (make wider): broaden, enwiden; see also Thesaurus:widen
• (make more viscous): condense, engross, inspissate; see also Thesaurus:thicken
• (become wider): widen
• (become more viscous): inspissate
• (strengthen): build up, reinforce; see also Thesaurus:strengthen
• (make more frequent):

Related terms

• thickener
• the plot thickens

Translations

Anagrams

• Chetnik, Kitchen, chetnik, ethnick, kitchen

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