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Crest vs Kinglet - What's the difference?

crest | kinglet |

As an acronym crest

is (military) the five types of verbal support used to enhance an (oral) presentation: comparisons, reasons, examples, statistics, testimony.

As a noun kinglet is

a petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory.

crest

English

(wikipedia crest)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
  • The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
  • (heraldry): A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
  • The upper curve of a horse's neck.
  • The ridge or top of a wave.
  • The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
  • The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
  • The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
  • The top line of a slope or embankment.
  • A design or logo, especially one of an institution, association or high-class family.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}

    Synonyms

    * (skin on head of birds) comb, cockscomb

    Coordinate terms

    * (skin on head of birds) caruncle, snood, wattle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
  • To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm / Crested the world.
  • * Wordsworth
    • groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow
  • To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
  • * Spenser
    • Like as the shining sky in summer's night, / Is crested with lines of fiery light.

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    kinglet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory.
  • *, I.42:
    • Cæsar'' termeth all the Lords, which in his time had justice in ''France , to be Kinglets [tr. (reguli)], or pettie Kings.
  • * 1951 , (Isaac Asimov), publication), part V, chapter 10, pages 160–161:
    • “My son hears tales. In the viceroy’s personal entourage, one could scarcely help it. And he tells me of them. Our new viceroy would not refuse the Crown if offered, but he guards his line of retreat. There are stories that, failing Imperial heights, he plans to carve out a new Empire in the Barbarian hinterland. It is said, but I don’t vouch for this, that he has already given one of his daughters as wife to a Kinglet somewhere in the uncharted Periphery.”
  • A bird of the crest family (Regulidae).