Crest

//kɹɛst// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A census-designated place in San Diego County, California, United States.
  2. 2
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
  2. 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. 3
    a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal wordnet
  4. 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. 5
    (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet wordnet
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  1. 6
    The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
  2. 7
    the center of a cambered road wordnet
  3. 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."

  4. 9
    the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave wordnet
  5. 10
    The upper curve of a horse's neck.
  6. 11
    the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) wordnet
  7. 12
    The ridge or top of a wave.
  8. 13
    The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
  9. 14
    The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
  10. 15
    The top line of a slope or embankment.
  11. 16
    A ridge along the surface of a bone.
  12. 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.”"

  13. 18
    Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
Verb
  1. 1
    Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak. intransitive
  2. 2
    reach a high point wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    lie at the top of wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 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

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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