Crest
name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 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"
- 1 A census-designated place in San Diego County, California, United States.
- 2 A surname.
Example
More examples"I've forgotten. Was House Lancaster's family crest a red rose, or a white rose?"
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.