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crest

noun as in highest point

noun as in emblem, symbol

noun as in topknot on head of animal

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You can summit crests like 10,064-foot Mount San Antonio and 8,985-foot Telegraph Peak right out the gates of Mount Baldy Resort in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Pernigotti suffered only a ruptured Achilles tendon and, with his partner’s help, made it to the crest, where a helicopter came to his rescue.

The distance between each crest, or tip, of a wave is its wavelength.

The 2020 Dodgers may represent a rare opportunity, the crest of a franchise’s talent-rich era.

Wavelength is the distance from one point on a wave to an identical point on the next, such as from crest to crest or from trough to trough.

To break her self-destructive cycle and heal, she decides to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo.

Plus, Procter & Gamble has already removed triclosan from its Crest toothpaste.

The Tea Party wave, which would crest a few months later, still seemed far out to shore.

Internal Revenue has its own crest or coat of arms or something.

Procter & Gamble introducing Crest toothpaste line with nontraditional flavors—chocolate, vanilla, lime.

But at the instant I caught a sight of my counterfeit presentment in a shop window, and veiled my haughty crest.

The crest-fallen astronomer plodded on his weary way, another example of a fool and his money soon parted.

He swam with her upon the summit of the breaking Wave, lifted upon its crest, swept onward irresistibly.

Still a-shiver at dawn, I saddled up and loped for the crest of the nearest divide to get the benefit of the first sun-rays.

I rubbed in the spot indicated, and out came the crest and initials exactly as Jack had described them.

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On this page you'll find 81 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to crest, such as: height, peak, ridge, acme, apex, and arête.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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