What's the difference between crown and frown?

Crown


Definition:

  • () of Crow
  • () p. p. of Crow.
  • (n.) A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward.
  • (n.) A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.
  • (n.) The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; -- with the definite article.
  • (n.) Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.
  • (n.) Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.
  • (n.) Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.
  • (n.) The topmost part of anything; the summit.
  • (n.) The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain.
  • (n.) The part of a hat above the brim.
  • (n.) The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.
  • (n.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.
  • (n.) Same as Corona.
  • (n.) That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.
  • (n.) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
  • (n.) The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.
  • (n.) The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
  • (n.) The dome of a furnace.
  • (n.) The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.
  • (n.) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
  • (n.) A size of writing paper. See under Paper.
  • (n.) A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.
  • (n.) An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.
  • (n.) To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
  • (n.) To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
  • (n.) To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
  • (n.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
  • (n.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
  • (2) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (3) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
  • (4) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
  • (5) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
  • (6) The force is liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service over its inquiry.
  • (7) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
  • (8) "But it is necessary to collect tax that is owed and it is necessary to reduce tax avoidance and the crown dependencies and the overseas territories need to play their part in that drive and they need to do more."
  • (9) His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi The Crown Prince is a leading champion in the Middle East for improving child health.
  • (10) In this experiment, 64 crown preparations were made in four primates.
  • (11) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (12) The involution of crown odontoblasts after primary dentinogenesis in teeth of limited eruption is discussed.
  • (13) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
  • (14) With equal cementing conditions and points of measurement for all crowns, the PFM crowns were found to be significantly superior to the other crown types.
  • (15) Just this week, we heard the outrage pouring from many Americans over the crowning of an Indian Miss USA .
  • (16) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
  • (17) May pointedly highlighted the latest reform effort, Vision 2030, promoted by the deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, the hawkish defence minister who oversees the Saudi campaign in Yemen.
  • (18) The maximum stresses and strains in porcelain for the crowns with a conventional coping thickness (0.3 mm) and a reduced coping thickness (0.1 mm) were not significantly different.
  • (19) However, the small residual pressure indicates that these internal back pressures appear to play a limited role in preventing a complete seating of a crown.
  • (20) The occurrence of marginal spaces between the resin facing and gold alloy framework in 176 crowns and bridge retainers was studied.

Frown


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
  • (v. i.) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
  • (v. t.) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
  • (n.) A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.
  • (n.) Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The BBC traditionally frowns on its presenters, especially those in BBC News, using columns to comment on news and current affairs.
  • (2) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
  • (3) Indeed, such parochialism would be downright frowned upon by today's World Cup mentality, considering that both the official anthem and slogan this time round is the typically Fifa-ishly nonsensical, and distinctly Benetton-esque, "We Are One".
  • (4) By then Wenger's frown lines had deepened in the wake of some heavy limping on Mikel Arteta's part.
  • (5) The result is that society places a high value on conformity and expressions of individuality are frowned upon; there is a strong emphasis on upholding social “norms” and keeping up appearances – in public if not necessarily in private.
  • (6) They’re re-education centres for those who’ve lost their way.” Viktor frowns: “Why are you so interested in gulags?
  • (7) His bastard Ramsay has shown his colors (whatever color is for sadism), but Roose – who abstains from alcohol and only offers a smirk at Lady Stark here, a frown with Jaime Lannister there – is still a cypher.
  • (8) But I hadn’t realised until relatively late in my obsession how other fellow non-U-ers frowned on it too.
  • (9) The sale or production of pornography in India remains illegal and taboo, and sex outside marriage is frowned upon.
  • (10) Working with both hands and frowning at the monitor, Pring reduces the size of her stomach by 90% by creating a “stomach pouch”, a stapled-off part the size of an egg.
  • (11) Even without this legislation, the law generally frowns upon what Rasch calls “self help”.
  • (12) Patients who are candidates for this type of surgery include those who have a long forehead, a short forehead, deep wrinkles, or thinner skin, as well as patients with deep frown lines and hyperactive corrugator muscles.
  • (13) There are other points of comparison – the instinct for PR moments, the actorly frown and catch in the voice, the appealing family pictures – but these are the essential ones.
  • (14) She is frowning on the hostile takeover bid from Spain's ACS (which in Florentino Pérez just so happens to share a chairman with Real Madrid) for Hochtief, Germany's biggest builder.
  • (15) Cycle furiously while bent over your handlebars with a deep frown!
  • (16) When some Soviet officials violated that principle, it was frowned upon.
  • (17) A novel feature is accurate compensation for 'smile' or 'frown' profiles as well as for the possible splay or curvature of lanes.
  • (18) Not for the last time during our meeting, Black Francis frowns and nods briskly, in a way which suggests that something I find a bit peculiar doesn't seem particularly peculiar to him.
  • (19) With David T Neal from the University of Southern California she recently published a paper entitled "Embodied Emotion Perception: Amplifying and Dampening Facial Feedback Modulates Emotional Perception Accuracy" , which found that using Botox – a neurotoxin injected into muscles to reduce frown lines – reduces a person's ability to empathise with others.
  • (20) He frowned on the kind of rampant drug use that characterised The Warehouse's big competitor, The Music Box: "I wouldn't allow those type of things to happen in my club," he told one interviewer, firmly.