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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