Crest vs. Comb — What's the Difference?

A usually ornamental tuft, ridge, or similar projection on the head of a bird or other animal.

A comb is a tool consisting of a shaft that holds a row of teeth for pulling through the hair to clean, untangle, or style it. Combs have been used since prehistoric times, having been discovered in very refined forms from settlements dating back to 5,000 years ago in Persia.

An elevated, irregularly toothed ridge on the stigmas of certain flowers.

A thin toothed strip, as of plastic, used to smooth, arrange, or fasten the hair.

A ridge or an appendage on a plant part, such as on a leaf or petal.

An implement, such as one for dressing and cleansing wool or other fiber, that resembles a hair comb in shape or use.

A plume used as decoration on top of a helmet.

A currycomb.

A helmet.

The fleshy crest or ridge that grows on the crown of the head of domestic fowl and other birds and is most prominent in the male.

(Heraldry) A device placed above the shield on a coat of arms.

Something suggesting a fowl's comb in appearance or position.

A representation of such a device.

A honeycomb.

The top, as of a hill or wave.

To arrange or groom (the hair) with or as with a comb

The highest or culminating point; the peak

To move through or pass across with a raking action

The ridge on a roof.

To straighten and separate (wool or other fibers) using a comb.

To decorate or furnish with a crest.

To search thoroughly; look through

To reach the crest of

To eliminate with or as with a comb

To form into a crest or crests

To roll and break. Used of waves.

To reach a crest

To make a thorough search

The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

A toothed implement:

A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.

A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.

The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.

A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.

(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 toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.

The upper curve of a horse's neck.

A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

The ridge or top of a wave.

The notched scale of a wire micrometer.

The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.

The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.

The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.

A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.

The top line of a slope or embankment.

(weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.

(anatomy) A ridge along the surface of a bone.

One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.

(informal) A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family.

A crest:

Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.

A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.

(intransitive) Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.

(by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.

(transitive) To reach the crest of (a hill or mountain)

The top part of a gun’s stock.

To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.

A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.

To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.

(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.

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.

A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.

The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet, indicating the rank of the wearer; hence, also, the helmet.

An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.

A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually above it, or separately as an ornament for plate, liveries, and the like. It is a relic of the ancient cognizance. See Cognizance, 4.

The curling crest of a wave; a comber.

The upper curve of a horse's neck.

A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.

The ridge or top of a wave.

A kind of vertical plate in a lode.

The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

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The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.

Alternative form of combe

The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.

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The top line of a slope or embankment.

To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.

To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for.

(transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.

To mark with lines or streaks, like, or regarded as like, waving plumes.

(transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.

To form a crest.

To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave

To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.

The top point of a mountain or hill;

An instrument with teeth, for straightening, cleansing, and adjusting the hair, or for keeping it in place.

The center of a cambered road

An instrument for currying hairy animals, or cleansing and smoothing their coats; a currycomb.

(heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet

A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc.

A showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal

The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

Lie at the top of;

The curling crest of a wave.

Reach a high point;

The waxen framework forming the walls of the cells in which bees store their honey, eggs, etc.; honeycomb.

The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.

That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.

A dry measure. See Coomb.

To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smooth and straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. See under Combing.

To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.

A flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair

The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds

A fleshy and deeply serrated outgrowth atop the heads of certain birds especially domestic fowl

Any of several tools for straightening fibers

Ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore

The act of drawing a comb through hair;

Straighten with a comb;

Search thoroughly;

Smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb;