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cresting

/kres-ting/US // ˈkrɛs tɪŋ //UK // (ˈkrɛstɪŋ) //

峰顶,巅峰,峰回路转,攀登

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.
    • : Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.
    • : a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.

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Examples

  • Will it be totally sanitized and full of glass-box condos or is the wave cresting and the tide about to run out?

  • When my siblings and I would see the planes cresting the mountains, we would line up, hoping they would let us board.

  • With bacon-mania cresting, the question must be asked: What were we thinking?

  • Beyond, the hill went upward suddenly with the curve of a cresting wave.

  • Cresting a rise about three miles distant I made out a dark mass moving forward along our track, and that at a rapid rate.

  • Three mornings they put out and fought it and the cresting seas it drove that turned to ice as they fell in-board.

  • The trail ran along a narrow ledge cresting an abrupt but bushy steep.

  • The Mission down below, in the dell, appeared in a bluish mist, only the cathedral cresting the hill.