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CRUST

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crust I. substantiv

1. coajă (de pâine); crustă; (fig.) mijloace de trai, de existenţă;

to earn one’s crust a-şi câştiga o pâine modestă / un trai modest;

(rar) to crack a crust a lega două în curmei (de tei); a huzuri, a domni.

2. (fig.) coajă, pojghiţă, crustă (de sânge închegat) pe o rană.

3. strat, pojghiţă (de zăpadă întărită).

4. crustă (pe un metal etc.).

5. (geol.) scoarţa pământului; depozit superficial.

6. drojdii (de vin, care se depun peretele sticlei).

crust II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a acoperi cu o scoarţă, cu o coajă.

2. to crust with a acoperi cu o coajă de.

crust II. verb B. intranzitiv

a se acoperi cu o coajă, a forma o coajă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Previous data had shown Ceres has a crust about 25 miles (40 kilometers) thick and rich in water, salts and, possibly, organics.

(NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' Surface, NASA)

“My dearest love,” said I, “the crust well-earned—”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The most likely explanation for this apparently periodic wave action is an overturning circulation pattern, in which cool surface crust slowly thickens and sinks, pulling nearby crust along with it in a wave that spreads across the surface.

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, Editura Global Info)

The large scarps were formed as Mercury’s interior cooled, causing the planet to contract and the crust to break and thrust upward along faults making cliffs up to hundreds of miles long and some more than a mile (over one-and-a-half kilometers) high.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)

Observations by MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) provided the data for identifying minerals in massive deposits within Mars' Eridania basin, which lies in a region with some of the Red Planet's most ancient exposed crust.

(Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life, NASA)

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