crest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
monarchy
nobility
politics
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: crests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cresting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The upper curve of a horse's neck.
pos: noun
gloss: The ridge or top of a wave.
pos: noun
gloss: The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
pos: noun
gloss: The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The top line of a slope or embankment.
pos: noun
gloss: A ridge along the surface of a bone.
pos: noun
gloss: A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 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.”
gloss: Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
pos: noun
gloss: Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To reach the crest of (e.g. a hill or mountain).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm / Crested the world.
groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow
gloss: To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Like as the shining skie in summers night, / What time the dayes with scorching heat abound, / Is creasted all with lines of firie light
Derived words: crestal
crest cloud
crestfallen
crestfish
crestie
crestless
crestlike
crestline
crest-tailed mulgara
crest tile
cresyl
flamecrest
great crest
helmetcrest
hillcrest
iliac crest
increst
infratemporal crest
interior crest
neural crest
neural crest syndrome
neurocrest
Pacific Crest
plovercrest
ride the crest of the wave
sagittal crest
Scotch crest
undercrest
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