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Crust vs Circumference - What's the difference?

crust | circumference |

As nouns the difference between crust and circumference

is that crust is a more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary while circumference is (geometry) the line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.

As verbs the difference between crust and circumference

is that crust is to cover with a crust while circumference is (obsolete|transitive) to include in a circular space; to bound.

crust

English

(wikipedia crust)

Noun

  • A more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.
  • The external layer of most types of bread.
  • An outer layer composed of pastry
  • * Dryden
  • Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.
  • * Macaulay
  • They made the crust for the venison pasty.
  • The bread-like base of a pizza.
  • (geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.
  • The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
  • (uncountable) Nerve, gall.
  • You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.
  • *
  • crust punk (a subgenre of punk music)
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with a crust.
  • * Boyle
  • The whole body is crusted over with ice.
  • * Felton
  • Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.
  • To form a crust.
  • Anagrams

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    circumference

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure
  • (geometry) The length of such a line
  • (obsolete) The surface of a round or spherical object
  • Synonyms

    * (distance measured around any object ): girth * (distance measured around a race track ): lap

    Verb

    (circumferenc)
  • (obsolete) To include in a circular space; to bound.
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)