Crest vs Swale - What's the difference?
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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.
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Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.
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To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
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A low tract of moist or marshy land.
A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.
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A shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope). Its purpose being to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
(melt and waste away, or singe)
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 swale is
a low tract of moist or marshy land or swale can be (uk|dialect) a gutter in a candle.As a verb swale is
(melt and waste away, or singe).crest
English
(wikipedia crest)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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Synonyms
* (skin on head of birds) comb, cockscombCoordinate terms
* (skin on head of birds) caruncle, snood, wattleVerb
(en verb)- His legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm / Crested the world.
- groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow
- Like as the shining sky in summer's night, / Is crested with lines of fiery light.
Anagrams
*swale
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Etymology 1
, from (etyl), "shade", perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to (etyl) svalrNoun
(en noun)- Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left.