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- 1 A census-designated place in San Diego County, California, United States.
- 2 A surname.
- 1 The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
- 2 Acronym of comparisons, reasons, examples, statistics, testimony, the five types of verbal support used to enhance an oral presentation. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 3 a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal wordnet
- 4 A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
- 5 (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet wordnet
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- 6 The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
- 7 the center of a cambered road wordnet
- 8 A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
"I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper."
- 9 the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave wordnet
- 10 The upper curve of a horse's neck.
- 11 the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) wordnet
- 12 The ridge or top of a wave.
- 13 The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
- 14 The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
- 15 The top line of a slope or embankment.
- 16 A ridge along the surface of a bone.
- 17 A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family. informal
"Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”"
- 18 Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
- 1 Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak. intransitive
- 2 reach a high point wordnet
- 3 To reach the crest of (e.g. a hill or mountain). transitive
"the land rolls gently, so that, upon cresting a low rise or passing a copse of wind turbines, you suddenly spot a lot full of lorries or a complex of gigantic sheds."
- 4 lie at the top of wordnet
- 5 To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for. transitive
"His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm / Crested the world."
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- 6 To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes. transitive
"Like as the shining skie in summers night, / What time the dayes with scorching heat abound, / Is creasted all with lines of firie light"
Etymology
From Middle English creste, from Old French creste (modern French crête) and perhaps continuing Old English cræsta (“crest, tuft, plume”); both ultimately from Vulgar Latin *cresta, from Latin crista. Doublet of crista. The informal meaning “design, logo” (noun sense 11) stems from a misinterpretation of the heraldic noun sense 4, which specifically refers to the object placed on top of the helm.
From Middle English creste, from Old French creste (modern French crête) and perhaps continuing Old English cræsta (“crest, tuft, plume”); both ultimately from Vulgar Latin *cresta, from Latin crista. Doublet of crista. The informal meaning “design, logo” (noun sense 11) stems from a misinterpretation of the heraldic noun sense 4, which specifically refers to the object placed on top of the helm.
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