crest
徽章,峰顶,徽记,鸡冠
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Definitions
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- : the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- : the head or top of anything.
- : a ridge or ridgelike formation.
- : the foamy top of a wave.
- : the point of highest flood, as of a river.
- : the highest point or level; climax; culmination.
- : a tuft or other natural growth on the top of the head of an animal, as the comb of a rooster.
- : anything resembling or suggesting such a tuft.
- : the ridge of the neck of a horse, dog, etc.
- : the mane growing from this ridge.
- : an ornament or heraldic device surmounting a helmet.
- : a helmet.
- : a ridge running from front to back along the top of a helmet; comb.
- : Heraldry. a figure borne above the escutcheon in an achievement of arms, either on a helmet or by itself as a distinguishing device.
- : Anatomy. a ridge, especially on a bone.
- : a ridge or other prominence on any part of the body of an animal.
- : Architecture. a cresting.
- : Machinery. the ridge or surface farthest from the body of the object and defined by the flanks of the thread.Compare root.
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- : to furnish with a crest.
- : to serve as a crest for; crown or top.
- : to reach the crest or summit of.
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- : to form or rise to a crest, as a wave or river.
- : to reach the crest or highest level: Interest in the project has crested.
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Examples
You can summit crests like 10,064-foot Mount San Antonio and 8,985-foot Telegraph Peak right out the gates of Mount Baldy Resort in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Pernigotti suffered only a ruptured Achilles tendon and, with his partner’s help, made it to the crest, where a helicopter came to his rescue.
The distance between each crest, or tip, of a wave is its wavelength.
The 2020 Dodgers may represent a rare opportunity, the crest of a franchise’s talent-rich era.
Wavelength is the distance from one point on a wave to an identical point on the next, such as from crest to crest or from trough to trough.
To break her self-destructive cycle and heal, she decides to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo.
Plus, Procter & Gamble has already removed triclosan from its Crest toothpaste.
The Tea Party wave, which would crest a few months later, still seemed far out to shore.
Internal Revenue has its own crest or coat of arms or something.
Procter & Gamble introducing Crest toothpaste line with nontraditional flavors—chocolate, vanilla, lime.
But at the instant I caught a sight of my counterfeit presentment in a shop window, and veiled my haughty crest.
The crest-fallen astronomer plodded on his weary way, another example of a fool and his money soon parted.
He swam with her upon the summit of the breaking Wave, lifted upon its crest, swept onward irresistibly.
Still a-shiver at dawn, I saddled up and loped for the crest of the nearest divide to get the benefit of the first sun-rays.
I rubbed in the spot indicated, and out came the crest and initials exactly as Jack had described them.