CREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crest mean? 

• CREST (noun)
  The noun CREST has 5 senses:

1. the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave

2. the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

3. the center of a cambered road

4. (heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet

5. a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal

  Familiarity information: CREST used as a noun is common.

• CREST (verb)
  The verb CREST has 2 senses:

1. lie at the top of

2. reach a high point

  Familiarity information: CREST used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("crest" is a kind of...):

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

Derivation:

crest (lie at the top of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

crest; crown; peak; summit; tip; top

Context example:

the region is a few molecules wide at the summit

Hypernyms ("crest" is a kind of...):

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crest"):

brow; hilltop (the peak of a hill)

pinnacle (a lofty peak)

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Derivation:

crest (lie at the top of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The center of a cambered road

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

crest; crown

Hypernyms ("crest" is a kind of...):

top; top side; upper side; upside (the highest or uppermost side of anything)

Holonyms ("crest" is a part of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("crest" is a kind of...):

emblem (special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.)

Domain category:

heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)

Holonyms ("crest" is a part of...):

arms; blazon; blazonry; coat of arms (the official symbols of a family, state, etc.)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("crest" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crest"):

tuft (a bunch of feathers or hair)

topknot (showy crest or knot of hair or feathers)

cockscomb; comb; coxcomb (the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds)

• CREST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crest    ... he / she / it crests   
Past simple: crested   
Past participle: crested   
-ing form: cresting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lie at the top of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

cap; crest

Context example:

Snow capped the mountains

Hypernyms (to "crest" is one way to...):

lie (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

crest (the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave)

crest (the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reach a high point

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The river crested last night

Hypernyms (to "crest" is one way to...):

peak; top out (to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

At one place it ran along the crest of a ridge that was no more than a knife-edge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Further development of this primordium forms the neural crest and neural tube.

(Nervous System Development, NCI Thesaurus)

But at the crest he saw a shallow valley, empty of life.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The distribution of this agent enables the scintigraphic imaging of neural crest tumors, such as neuroblastoma and pheochromocytoma.

(Iobenguane Sulfate I-123, NCI Thesaurus)

The JunoCam imager has resolved smaller distances between individual wave crests in these trains than ever seen before.

(NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains, NASA)

A small triangular process of dura matter beginning at the internal occipital crest just beneath the tentorium and projecting forward.

(Falx Cerebelli, NCI Thesaurus)

The crest of the gingiva surrounding a tooth.

(Gingival Margin, NCI Thesaurus)

Cells derived from primitive cell types in the neural crest.

(APUD Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Heart- and neural crest derivatives-expressed protein 2 (217 aa, ~24 kDa) is encoded by the human HAND2 gene.

(Heart- and Neural Crest Derivatives-Expressed Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

A common pediatric extracranial tumor arising from neural crest cells.

(Neuroblastoma of the Adrenal Gland and Sympathetic Nervous System, NCI Thesaurus)