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# crest

«crest» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bunch of feathers, fur or skin on the top of an…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a crest, crests); verb (crest, crests, crested, cresting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A crest is a bunch of feathers, fur or skin on the top of an animal's head, like a cockatoo's crest or a rooster's comb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#m1)

2) The crest of a hill or wave is its top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#m2)

3) A crest is a special picture or badge of a family, school, team or town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#m3)

4) To crest is to reach the top of a hill or wave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#m4)

5) «On the crest of a wave» means very successful at the moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science, crests are animal features, and the crest of a wave is its highest point (the low point is the trough). In history, knights had family crests on shields; schools have crests on uniforms. In geography, the crest is the top of a ridge. Phrases: «school crest», «family crest», «crest of a wave», «crest the hill».

### examples

- The cockatoo raised its yellow crest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#x1)
- We reached the crest of the hill and saw the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#x2)
- Our school crest has a lion and a book on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#x3)
- The surfer rode the crest of the wave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#x4)
- The knight's shield showed his family crest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#x5)
- The river crested after days of rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#x6)
- In a wave, the crest is the top and the trough is the bottom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#x7)
- How she lifts her crest, the ugly, spiteful creature! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/#x8)

### note

Countable. In science problems about waves: the distance from one crest to the next is the wavelength; the height from the middle line to the crest is the amplitude. Related word: «crested» (having a crest).

### In the corpora

- [Parasaurolophus had a long hollow crest that probably worked like a trumpet, making deep honking sounds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crest» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.