What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Crust vs Crustlike - What's the difference?

crust | crustlike |

As a noun crust

is a more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or boundary.

As a verb crust

is to cover with a crust.

As an adjective crustlike is

resembling or characteristic of a crust.

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)

    • Related terms

    * crusted * crusty * encrust

    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

    *

    crustlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a crust.