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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ornamental ridge, as on top of a wall or roof.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, an ornamental finish to a wall or ridge; a crest, as the range of crest-tiles of an edifice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
crest . - noun architecture An
ornamental finish on the top of awall orridge of aroof .
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Examples
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They were lazily gliding through the water, or sleeping on the sandy bottom, and one shark was kind enough to show off its Jaws” dorsal fin cresting the surface of the water” impression.
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They were lazily gliding through the water, or sleeping on the sandy bottom, and one shark was kind enough to show off its Jaws” dorsal fin cresting the surface of the water” impression.
2010 March « Biodork 2010
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And St. Louis, you're kind of cresting now, but you're going to hold steady there for days to come.
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The floodwaters of political extremism may be cresting.
Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector Pablo Eisenberg 2011
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The floodwaters of political extremism may be cresting.
Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector Pablo Eisenberg 2011
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It's a wave of violence that's cresting along with a tide of hateful, insurrectionist rhetoric that far too many conservatives refuse to condemn.
Eric Boehlert: The Right's Rising Tide of Violent Rhetoric Eric Boehlert 2011
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It's a wave of violence that's cresting along with a tide of hateful, insurrectionist rhetoric that far too many conservatives refuse to condemn.
Eric Boehlert: The Right's Rising Tide of Violent Rhetoric Eric Boehlert 2011
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The floodwaters of political extremism may be cresting.
Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector Pablo Eisenberg 2011
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Upon cresting the hill, they drove beneath the gateway into a courtyard where additions and wings moved in every available direction.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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The floodwaters of political extremism may be cresting.
Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector Pablo Eisenberg 2011
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