What's the difference between coronet and diadem?

Coronet


Definition:

  • (n.) An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown.
  • (n.) The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin.
  • (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was a master of disguise, as he demonstrated in the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949), with a multiplicity of roles.
  • (2) By the appearance of these globules, coronet cells are roughly divided into two types: botryoidal coronet cells and flower-like.
  • (3) The lesion was a small circumscribed area of epidermal inflammation in the skin immediately above the coronet between the bulbs of the heel.
  • (4) The reverse of the new coin shows the English rose, Welsh leek, Scottish thistle and Northern Irish shamrock emerging from one stem within a royal coronet – a design created by 15-year-old schoolboy David Pearce, who won a competition to create the image.
  • (5) Cellulitis which extended from the coronet to above the carpus or hock was more severe and had a poorer prognosis than cellulitis distal to these joints.
  • (6) The ration of coronets dished out on the advice of the other parties was little better.
  • (7) Nowhere, alas: instead the august broadsheet rock critic was confronted by a “parade of misfits”, horrified by the sound of experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear “tootling” on something he referred to as “a coronet”.
  • (8) The coronet cells are characterized by both numerous specialized cilia, so-called "globules" projecting into the saccus lumen and abundant smooth endoplasmic reticulum in the cytoplasm.
  • (9) Oedema and haemorrhage are marked in the mouth, lips, abomasum, around the coronets, etc., and are occasionally followed by degeneration of the epithelium leading to erosions or ulcerations.
  • (10) If a cow is not to be retained for several years after treatment, a simple amputation above the coronet is to be recommended.
  • (11) One of the possible methods of treatment in arthritis of the pedal joint in cattle consists in simple amputation above the coronet.
  • (12) The luminal surface of the coronet cells exhibits hair-like protrusions.
  • (13) It consist of several loculi lined with coronet cells and is bathed with blood from surrounding sinusoids.
  • (14) The PAS positive nature of the apical part of some coronet cells and their continuation with the PAS and AF positive material present in the lumen strongly suggest their secretory role.
  • (15) In sixteen cases the claw was amputated under the coronet and in the remaining sixteen cases the claw was sawn off above the coronet, through the second phalanx.
  • (16) Small metachromatic granules are also seen in some of the coronet cells.
  • (17) The coronet cells are variably shaped and have a conspicous central nucleus.
  • (18) This observation is discussed in relation to other morphological data and the possible resorptive function of the coronet cells in the homeostasis of the CSF.
  • (19) These include two men who got off a bus at the stop opposite where Stephen was attacked and walked southbound along the east side of Well Hall Road; a man who ran from the area of Well Hall Road roundabout to the bus stop on the same side of Well Hall Road as the attack; a man who was walking on the east side of Well Hall south of the roundabout, opposite the Coronet cinema, wearing a distinctive green jacket with a large 'V'; and anyone else in the general vicinity, such as those outside the cinema and on passing buses.
  • (20) • Torture Garden is at Electrowerkz, London, 11 March (tickets £29), and is hosting its 25th birthday ball at the Coronet theatre, London, on 23 April (tickets £38), torturegarden.com Morning Gloryville Facebook Twitter Pinterest It’s hard to see how a rave that starts at 7am and doesn’t serve alcohol ever took off in London but that’s the NutriBullet generation for you.

Diadem


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.
  • (n.) Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
  • (n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with a diadem; to crown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With an armamentarium of clinical observation, dermatologists may suspect a hypomelanotic cutaneous diadem overlying a palpable dermal mass to be a visual vignette of a sarcoidal montage requiring diagnostic biopsy.
  • (2) Electron microscopy of ejaculated spermatozoa demonstrated the characteristic diadem pattern of craters in the equatorial region of the head.
  • (3) His Christmas radio broadcast in 1953, in which he quoted Macaulay's description of the Puritans ("Their palaces were houses not made with hands: their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away") moved many listeners to tears.
  • (4) It was a strikingly odd object, 12g of gold so large that it would only fit on a gloved thumb, ornamented with a peculiar spiky head wearing a diadem, and a Latin inscription reading: "Senicianus live well in God".