crown

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
2. A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
3. Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
4. Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
5. The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
6. The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
7. The police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).
8. The top part of something:
9. The top part of something:
10. The top part of something:
11. The top part of something:
12. The top part of something:
13. The top part of something:
14. The top part of something:
15. The top part of something:
16. A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
17. Splendor; culmination; acme.
18. 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, kruna, krone, korona.
19. A former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.
20. A coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.
21. The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
22. The top of a tree.
23. The part of a tooth above the gums.
24. A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
25. A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.
26. The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.
27. The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
28. In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
29. In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
30. A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.
31. During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.
32. A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.
33. The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
34. A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
35. A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
36. (colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
37. The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

Adj

1. Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
2. Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

Verb

1. To place a crown on the head of.
2. To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
3. To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
4. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
5. To declare (someone) a winner.
6. Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
7. To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
8. To hit on the head.
9. To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
10. In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
11. Of a forest fire or bushfire, to spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.
12. To widen the opening of the barrel.
13. To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
14. To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
15. (slang) To be on the point of defecating.

Verb

past participle of crow

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kɹaʊn/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English coroune, from Anglo-Norman corone, from Latin corōna (“crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē). Doublet of corona, koruna, krone, krona, and króna. Displaced native Old English corenbēag (“crown”); and Middle English kinehelm, kynehelm, from Old English cynehelm (“crown”).
* (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.

Sinne

She wears upon her head a mural crown and veil .