What's the difference between coronet and tiara?

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.

Tiara


Definition:

  • (n.) A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.
  • (n.) The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pieces include a barrel-shaped diamond worth at least $5m (£3.3m) and a Cartier diamond tiara estimated to be worth more than $100,000.
  • (2) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
  • (3) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
  • (4) London's garden bridge: will 'tiara on the head of fabulous city' ever be built?
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Imelda’s diamond and pearl tiara.
  • (6) There are also a number of files with intriguing titles such as Operation Tiara, Operation Grape, and Project R1, as well as some which contain details of supposed UFO sightings.
  • (7) "Billionaire fashionista" Evgeny Lebedev wore tailored his 'n' hers trouser suits with his actress girlfriend Joely Richardson to Sir Elton John's White Tie & Tiara Ball in June.
  • (8) Instead, take inspiration from Molly Ringwald in the most seminal prom film of all time, Pretty in Pink, in which her character spends precisely no money at all on her dress, wears a giant pink sack to the dance and ends up with her happy ending, without even a tiara.
  • (9) The fast-talking 61-year-old shakes hands with one wearing a tiara and sash reading “Miss Columbus”, from a beauty pageant to celebrate its namesake’s arrival in North America.
  • (10) This problem may prove even more curious than the case of Elton of John's tiara.
  • (11) Cartier International, which established its reputation in the 19th century by crafting tiaras and necklaces for royalty, declined to comment on the case.
  • (12) And beyond Capote's character and Hepburn's performance is the iconic image of Holly herself – with little black dress, black gloves, a tiara and a foot-long cigarette holder.
  • (13) The pieces include a barrel-shaped diamond worth at least $5m (£3.3m) and a Cartier diamond tiara believed to be worth more than $100,000.
  • (14) Clad in a "midnight-blue ceramic rainscreen", this plump cousin of the Gherkin (in which Partington also had a hand) appears to be bursting out of its corset of "white porcelain ribs", which overshoot the penthouse skybar to form a tacky tiara on the skyline.
  • (15) And Jonathan Reilly, along with two friends, donned tutus and tiaras, grabbed a magic wand, and went trick-or-treating … in August.
  • (16) What next for what Lumley called, somewhat hopefully, “the tiara on the head of our fabulous city”?
  • (17) #Emmys September 23, 2013 Updated at 3.19am BST 3.11am BST The Colbert Report introduces its team with an homage to NSA surveillance (and obviously gets points from us ), puppets stand-in for The Daily Show group, Oprah introduces the writers of Jimmy Kimmel Live , the Portlandia crew gets applause from a concert audience, Toddlers in Tiaras stand-in for the writers of Real Time with Bill Maher , some weird collection of SNL references for its team.
  • (18) Yet Snyder clearly has no problem with Wonder Woman, who owns an invisible plane and attacks enemies with her tiara, so it seems all bets are off.
  • (19) I picked up my departed mother’s sparkly red and green Christmas tiara and ran with it.
  • (20) Last year, Christie’s valued the collection; they identified treasures that had previously been missed, including a tiara with 25 pearls in a diamond frame seized from the Russian tsar’s family in the 1918 revolution.

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