| NOUN | location | crest | the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave |
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| location | crest, peak, crown, top, tip, summit | the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | |
| artifact | crest, crown | the center of a cambered road | |
| artifact | crest | (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet | |
| animal | crest | a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal | |
| VERB | stative | crest, cap | lie at the top of |
| motion | crest | reach a high point |
| Sounds | kreh'st | |
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| Rhymes | abreast ... zest: 76 rhymes with ehst... | |
| Meaning | The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave. | |
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| Broader | line | A spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent |
| Spanish | cima, cresta, cumbre | |
| Catalan | carena, cresta | |
| Verbs | crest | lie at the top of |
| Meaning | The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill). | |
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| Synonyms | peak, crown, top, tip, summit | |
| Narrower | hilltop, brow | The peak of a hill |
| mountain peak | The summit of a mountain | |
| pinnacle | A lofty peak | |
| Broader | topographic point, place, spot | A point located with respect to surface features of some region |
| Spanish | cima, cresta, cumbre, cúspide, extremo superior, pico | |
| Catalan | cimalada, cimal, cim, cresta, cúspide, pic | |
| Verbs | crest | lie at the top of |
| Meaning | The center of a cambered road. | |
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| Synonym | crown | |
| Part of | road, route | An open way (generally public) for travel or transportation / transportation |
| Broader | top, top side, upper side, upside | The highest or uppermost side of anything |
| Meaning | (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet. | |
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| Category | heraldry | The study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies |
| Part of | coat of arms, arms, blazon, blazonry | The official symbols of a family, state / state / state / state, etc. |
| Broader | emblem | special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc. |
| Spanish | cimera | |
| Catalan | cimera | |
| Meaning | A showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal. | |
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| Narrower | comb, cockscomb, coxcomb | The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds |
| topknot | showy crest or knot of hair or feathers | |
| tuft | A bunch of feathers or hair | |
| Broader | process, outgrowth, appendage | A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant |
| Spanish | cresta | |
| Catalan | cresta | |
| Meaning | lie at the top of. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | cap | |
| Broader | lie | Be located or situated somewhere |
| Spanish | cubrir | |
| Catalan | cobrir | |
| Nouns | crest | the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave |
| crest | the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | |
| Meaning | reach a high point. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "The river crested last night" | |
| Broader | top out, peak | To reach the highest point |
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