crown Définition - Anglais Dictionnaire | crown Explications et Prononciations

A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

(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 awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry.

A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

(by extension) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor.

Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.

(by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).

Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.

The topmost part of the head.

The highest part of a hill.

The top section of a hat, above the brim.

The raised centre of a road.

The highest part of an arch.

Splendor; culmination; acme.

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.

(historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.

(forestry) The top of a tree.

(anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.

(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.

(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.

(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.

(nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.

(paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.

(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.

(medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina.

(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

The dome of a furnace.

(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.

(African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for church crown.

VerbeSGcrownsPRcrowningPT, PPcrowned

To place a crown on the head of.

To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.

To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

To declare (someone) a winner.

New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.

(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. ‎

VT To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.

To hit on the head.

&lquo;[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended. She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.

(video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.

(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. ‎

(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.

(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.

OBS past participle of crow.

Adjectif

Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
1. crown prince

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

a crown fire

Plus d'exemples

Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- The Crown Proceedings Act, 1947. By J. R. Bickford Smith, b.a. (Oxon), of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law
- New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
- Specifically, the seminary was challenged by industrial millers who petitioned to build steam-powered mills and by large Montreal property holders who demanded that the crown commutate their lands.

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