crested

«crested» in Mova's school dictionary: A crested bird or animal has a crest: a tuft of feathers… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (crested)

meaning for a pupil

1) A crested bird or animal has a crest: a tuft of feathers, fur or skin on top of its head. tree →

2) Crested describes things with a decoration or badge (a crest) on them, as in crested notepaper or a crested blazer. tree →

3) Crested can also mean topped with something, such as a wave crested with white foam. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and nature, many animals are named for their crests: crested newt, great crested grebe, crested tit, crested penguin, cockatoos. Crests help animals show off or signal. In everyday life in the UK and Ireland, school blazers and jumpers are often crested with the school badge.

examples

• The great crested grebe dances on the lake in spring. tree →
• A crested newt lives in the pond. tree →
• Cockatoos are crested parrots. tree →
• The crested penguin has yellow feathers above its eyes. tree →
• Our school jumper is crested with an owl badge. tree →
• The crested lizard raised its frill. tree →
• The waves rose high, crested with white foam, and the wind cut off their crests, scattering the foam far and wide. tree →

note

Adjective from crest (noun). Crest also means the top of a hill or wave (the crest of a wave). Crested newts are protected in the UK, so do not disturb them.

In the corpora

• Picture a crested gecko licking its own eyeball: it has no moving eyelids, so its tongue is its windscreen wiper.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «crested» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.