crown | |
1. n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem. | |
2. n. (heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be a | |
3. n. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor. | |
4. n. (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor. | |
the martyr's crown | |
5. n. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it. | |
6. n. (metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state. | |
7. n. (by extension, especially in legal) The state, the government (headed by a monarch). | |
Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown. | |
8. n. The topmost part of the head. | |
9. n. The highest part of a hill. | |
10. n. Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna | |
11. n. (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings. | |
12. n. (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet. | |
13. n. (forestry) The top of a tree. | |
14. n. (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums. | |
15. n. (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth. | |
16. n. (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling | |
17. n. (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet | |
18. n. (nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line. | |
19. n. (nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable. | |
20. n. (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 x 15 inches. | |
21. n. (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 x 15 inches. | |
22. n. (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location | |
23. n. (medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina | |
24. n. (firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening | |
25. n. The upper range of facets in a rose diamond. | |
26. n. The dome of a furnace. | |
27. n. (geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters. | |
28. n. (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure. | |
29. n. A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat. | |
30. n. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands | |
31. adj. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown. | |
crown prince | |
32. adj. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees. | |
a crown fire | |
33. v. To place a crown on the head of. | |
34. v. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc. | |
35. v. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. | |
36. v. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. | |
37. v. To declare (someone) a winner. | |
38. v. (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening. | |
The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives. | |
39. v. To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley. | |
40. v. To hit on the head. | |
41. v. (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game. | |
42. v. (board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king. | |
“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row. | |
43. v. (firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel. | |
44. v. (military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. | |
45. v. (nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other. | |
46. v. (archaic) past participle of crow | |