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Definitions for Cresting

[1] Architecture . a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.
[2] Furniture . ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.
[3] a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.
[4] the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
[5] the head or top of anything.
[6] a ridge or ridgelike formation.
[7] the foamy top of a wave.
[8] the point of highest flood, as of a river.
[9] the highest point or level; climax; culmination.
[10] a tuft or other natural growth on the top of the head of an animal, as the comb of a rooster.
[11] anything resembling or suggesting such a tuft.
[12] the ridge of the neck of a horse, dog, etc.
[13] the mane growing from this ridge.
[14] an ornament or heraldic device surmounting a helmet.
[15] a helmet.
[16] a ridge running from front to back along the top of a helmet; comb.
[17] Heraldry . a figure borne above the escutcheon in an achievement of arms, either on a helmet or by itself as a distinguishing device.
[18] Anatomy . a ridge, especially on a bone.
[19] a ridge or other prominence on any part of the body of an animal.
[20] Architecture . a cresting.
[21] Machinery . (in a screw or other threaded object) the ridge or surface farthest from the body of the object and defined by the flanks of the thread. Compare root1(def 15a) .
[22] to furnish with a crest.
[23] to serve as a crest for; crown or top.
[24] to reach the crest or summit of (a hill, mountain, etc.).
[25] to form or rise to a crest, as a wave or river.
[26] to reach the crest or highest level: Interest in the project has crested.
[27] an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
[28] carpentry a shaped decorative toprail or horizontal carved ornament surmounting a chair, mirror, etc
[29] a tuft or growth of feathers, fur, or skin along the top of the heads of some birds, reptiles, and other animals
[30] something resembling or suggesting this
[31] the top, highest point, or highest stage of something
[32] a ridge on the neck of a horse, dog, lion, etc
[33] the mane or hair growing from this ridge
[34] an ornamental piece, such as a plume, on top of a helmet
[35] heraldry a symbol of a family or office, usually representing a beast or bird, borne in addition to a coat of arms and used in medieval times to decorate the helmet
[36] a ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
[37] a ridge along the surface of a bone
[38] Also called: cresting archery identifying rings painted around an arrow shaft
[39] (intr) to come or rise to a high point
[40] (tr) to lie at the top of; cap
[41] (tr) to go to or reach the top of (a hill, wave, etc)
[42] an electronic share-settlement system, created by the Bank of England and owned by 69 firms, that began operations in 1996

Words related to Cresting

climax, crest, culminate, conquer, climb, finish, cover, cap, face, exceed, complete, beat, clinch, crown, surpass, eclipse, lick, subdue, down, hurdle

Words nearby Cresting

crested auklet, crested dog's-tail, crested tit, crested wheatgrass, crestfallen, cresting, crestone needle, crestone peak, crestwood, cresyl, cresylic

Origin of Cresting

1275–1325; Middle English creste < Old French < Latin crista

Other words from Cresting

crest·ed , adjective
crest·less , adjective
sub·crest , noun
un·crest·ed , adjective
un·der·crest , noun

Word origin for Cresting

CRESTC20: from CrestCo , the name of the operating company

Synonyms for Cresting

climax, crest, culminate, be at height, come to a head, reach the top, reach the zenith, top out