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crest   (TTS Sound)

The noun crest has 5 senses

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


• peak, crown, crest, top, tip, summit -- (the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill); "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit")


• crown, crest -- (the center of a cambered road)


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


• crest -- (a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal)

The verb crest has 2 senses

• cap, crest -- (lie at the top of; "Snow capped the mountains")


• crest -- (reach a high point; "The river crested last night")