What is another word for crests?

Pronunciation: [kɹˈɛsts] (IPA)

Crests are the highest point or the peak of something. The word "crest" can be used in various contexts, and for this reason, there are several synonyms for it. Some of the synonyms for the word "crest" include apex, crown, summit, peak, top, pinnacle, head, tip, and edge. Depending on the context, some of these synonyms may be more appropriate than others. For example, you may use the word "tip" if you are talking about the highest point of something that is narrow, while "pinnacle" may be used when talking about the highest point of an achievement or success. Therefore, it's important to choose the right synonym when describing a crest.

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Usage examples for Crests

Just before breaking these would tower aloft, their fine-drawn crests poised for an instant in the sunlight.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
It is never as dark on the land, apparently, as it is at sea, where even the lights hung out by a ship seem to make all things darker, except the white crests of the billows.
"Ahead of the Army"
W. O. Stoddard
Bare crests of similar hills, appeared to arise throughout the whole extent of that valley.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell

Famous quotes with Crests

  • Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
    Stefan Zweig
  • The king then kept his Christmas at his castle at Guildford; the dresses are said to be , and consisted of eighty tunics of buckram of various colours; forty-two visors of different similitudes, namely, fourteen of faces of women, fourteen of faces of men, and fourteen heads of angels made with silver; twenty-eight crests; fourteen mantles embroidered with heads of dragons; fourteen white tunics wrought with the heads and wings of peacocks; fourteen with the heads of swans with wings; fourteen tunics painted with the eyes of peacocks; fourteen tunics of English linen painted; and fourteen other tunics embroidered with stars of gold.
    Joseph Strutt
  • What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.
    Alan Watts
  • I had a vision of the face of destiny.You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers.Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the stars.
    Antoine de Saint Exupéry
  • The encroachments of Slavery upon our national policy have been like those of a glacier in a Swiss valley. Inch by inch, the huge dragon with his glittering scales and crests of ice coils itself onward, an anachronism of summer, the relic of a bygone world where such monsters swarmed. But it has its limit, the kindlier forces of Nature work against it, and the silent arrows of the sun are still, as of old, fatal to the frosty Python. Geology tells us that such enormous devastators once covered the face of the earth, but the benignant sunlight of heaven touched them, and they faded silently, leaving no trace but here and there the scratches of their talons, and the gnawed boulders scattered where they made their lair. We have entire faith in the benignant influence of Truth, the sunlight of the moral world, and believe that slavery, like other worn-out systems, will melt gradually before it.
    James Russell Lowell

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