Crust vs. Mantle — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Crust and Mantle

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Crust

The hard outer portion or surface area of bread.

Mantle

A loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women

She was wrapped tightly in her mantle

Crust

A piece of bread consisting mostly of the hard outer portion.

Mantle

An important role or responsibility that passes from one person to another

The second son has now assumed his father's mantle

Crust

A piece of bread that has become hard and dry.

Mantle

A fragile mesh cover fixed round a gas jet, kerosene wick, etc., to give an incandescent light when heated.

Crust

A pastry shell, as of a pie or tart.

Mantle

The region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core, believed to consist of hot, dense silicate rocks (mainly peridotite)

Magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges are derived from the upper mantle

Mantle rock

The presence of hot mantle leads to melting at the base of the lithosphere

Crust

A hard crisp covering or surface

Snow with a firm crust.

Mantle

Variant spelling of mantel

Crust

A hard deposit formed on the interior of a wine bottle as the wine matures.

Mantle

Cloak or envelop

Heavy mists mantled the forested slopes

Crust

The solid, outermost layer of the earth, lying above the mantle.

Mantle

(of a bird of prey on the ground or on a perch) spread the wings and tail so as to cover captured prey

The female Goshawk is feeding while mantling with spread wings over her prey

Crust

The outermost solid layer of a planet or moon.

Mantle

A loose sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak.

Crust

The hard outer covering or integument of certain plants and animals, such as lichens and crustaceans.

Mantle

Something that covers, envelops, or conceals:"On a summer night ... a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads"(John Dollard).

Crust

An outer layer or coating formed by the drying of a bodily exudate such as pus or blood; a scab.

Mantle

The role or appearance of an authoritative or important person:"a Carlylean conviction that in modern society a poet was obligated to assume the mantle of a prophet"(Richard D. Altick).

Crust

(Informal) Insolence; audacity; gall.

Mantle

Variant ofmantel.

Crust

To cover with a crust.

Mantle

The outer covering of a wall.

Crust

To form into a crust.

Mantle

A zone of hot gases around a flame.

Crust

To become covered with a crust.

Mantle

A device in gas lamps consisting of a sheath of threads that gives off brilliant illumination when heated by the flame.

Crust

To harden into a crust.

Mantle

(Anatomy)The cerebral cortex.

Crust

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

Mantle

(Geology)The zone of the earth between the crust and the core.

Crust

The external, hardened layer of certain foodstuffs, including most types of bread, fried meat, etc.

Mantle

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth.

Crust

An outer layer composed of pastry

Mantle

The shoulder feathers, upper back, and sometimes the wings of a bird when differently colored from the rest of the body.

Crust

The bread-like base of a pizza.

Mantle

A fold or pair of folds of the body wall that covers the internal organs and typically secretes the substance that forms the shell in mollusks and brachiopods.

Crust

The top or bottom slice of a loaf of bread; The end piece of a loaf; The heel.

Mantle

The soft outer wall lining the shell of a tunicate or barnacle.

Crust

(geology) The outermost layer of the lithosphere of the Earth.

Mantle

To cover with a mantle.

Crust

The outermost layer of any terrestrial planet.

Mantle

To cover with something that acts like a mantle; cover, envelop, or conceal:"when the land was mantled in forest and prowled by lions, leopards, and wolves"(David Campbell).

Crust

The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

Mantle

To spread or become extended over a surface.

Crust

Nerve, gall.

You've got a lot of crust standing there saying that.

Mantle

To become covered with a coating, as scum or froth on the surface of a liquid.

Crust

(music genre) crust punk

Mantle

To blush:cheeks mantling with embarrassment.

Crust

A living.

To earn one's crust

Mantle

A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. Compare mantum.

Crust

(transitive) To cover with a crust.

Mantle

(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.

At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.

The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.

Crust

(intransitive) To form a crust.

Mantle

(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.

Crust

The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross.

Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever.

Mantle

(malacology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.

Crust

The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.

Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies.

He that keeps nor crust nor crumb.

They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty.

Mantle

(ornithology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

Crust

The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

Mantle

The zone of hot gases around a flame.

Crust

The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

Mantle

A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.

Crust

A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

Mantle

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Crust

An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.

Mantle

A penstock for a water wheel.

Crust

To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.

The whole body is crusted over with ice.

And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stoodCrusted with bark.

Very foul and crusted bottles.

Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.

Mantle

(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.

Crust

To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.

The place that was burnt . . . crusted and healed.

Mantle

(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.

Crust

The outer layer of the Earth

Mantle

A fireplace shelf; mantel

Crust

A hard outer layer that covers something

Mantle

(heraldry) A mantling.

Crust

The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

Mantle

(transitive) To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.

Crust

Form a crust or form into a crust;

The bread crusted in the oven

Mantle

(intransitive) To become covered or concealed. en

Mantle

(intransitive) To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).

Mantle

To climb over or onto something.

Mantle

(falconry) The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.

Mantle

(falconry) The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.

Mantle

A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak.

[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin.

The green mantle of the standing pool.

Now Nature hangs her mantle greenOn every blooming tree.

Mantle

Same as Mantling.

Mantle

The external fold, or folds, of the soft, exterior membrane of the body of a mollusk. It usually forms a cavity inclosing the gills. See Illusts. of Buccinum, and Byssus.

Mantle

A mantel. See Mantel.

Mantle

The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.

Mantle

A penstock for a water wheel.

Mantle

The highly viscous shell of hot semisolid rock, about 1800 miles thick, lying under the crust of the Earth and above the core. Also, by analogy, a similar shell on any other planet.

Mantle

To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.

Mantle

To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; - said of hawks. Also used figuratively.

Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch.

Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew.

My frail fancy fed with full delight.Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.

Mantle

To spread out; - said of wings.

The swan, with arched neckBetween her white wings mantling proudly, rows.

Mantle

To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.

Though mantled in her cheek the blood.

Mantle

To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.

There is a sort of men whose visagesDo cream and mantle like a standing pond.

Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm.

Mantle

The cloak as a symbol of authority;

Place the mantle of authority on younger shoulders

Mantle

United States baseball player (1931-1997)

Mantle

The layer of the earth between the crust and the core

Mantle

Anything that covers;

There was a blanket of snow

Mantle

(zoology) a protective layer of epidermis in mollusks or brachiopods that secretes a substance forming the shell

Mantle

Shelf that projects from wall above fireplace;

In England they call a mantel a chimneypiece

Mantle

Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

Mantle

A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

Mantle

Spread over a surface, like a mantle

Mantle

Cover like a mantle;

The ivy mantles the building

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