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Crust vs Dough - What's the difference?

crust | dough |

In transitive terms the difference between crust and dough

is that crust is to cover with a crust while dough is to make into dough.

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

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    dough

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (dialectal)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
    • Pizza dough is very stretchy.
  • (slang) Money.
    • His mortgage payments left him short on dough .

    Derived terms

    * doughboy * doughnut * doughy * rolling in dough

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make into dough.
    • The flour was doughed with a suitable quantity of water.

    Derived terms

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