(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.) 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.
Pennant
Definition:
(n.) A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.
(n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, insiders said that late on Friday afternoon Pennant-Rea contacted Darcey to say they were not convinced that a seven-day operation for the Times and Sunday Times was off the table and would not therefore be approving Witherow and Ivens's appointments.
(2) And imagine handing one of those pennants over, shaking hands just before leading your country into a World Cup final!
(3) The six directors include Rupert Pennant-Rea, a former editor of the Economist and deputy governor of the Bank of England; Stephen Grabiner, a venture capitalist who previously worked in the Telegraph's commercial department; and Veronica Wadley, former editor of the London Evening Standard and ex-deputy editor of the Daily Mail.
(4) A History of Bradford City AFC in Objects , a new book by lifelong supporter John Dewhirst, appears not much more promising than a compulsive collection of memorabilia – but it is much more than the sum of its badges, pennants and other ephemera which the author admits his wife and three daughters would eagerly de-clutter tomorrow.
(5) This hatred is exacerbated when the Cards crush you season after season of course, to the tune of 19 pennants and 11 World Series titles.
(6) Pennant-Rea is also a former editor of the Economist, while Lord Marlesford is a former journalist on the same magazine.
(7) Pennant believes that Clarkson's apology does not address the root of the problem at the corporation.
(8) Pennant said Clarkson's apology did not address the diversity problem at the BBC.
(9) Despite mounting pressure on the BBC to sack Clarkson, Pennant is unconvinced that such a "kneejerk" move is the right response.
(10) Jon Walters and Kenwyne Jones tried to test the new goalkeeper with long shots early in the game, though both flew harmlessly wide and Amos dealt with his first cross from Jermaine Pennant comfortably enough.
(11) The wingers weren't getting enough crosses in early on, but Pennant's delivery for the second goal was excellent.
(12) Author and publisher Cass Pennant is a former member of the InterCity Firm.
(13) The Giants won NLCS Game Seven 9-0, powered by a five-run third inning, to win the National League pennant.
(14) Perry Boys Abroad, by Ian Hough, has been released by Pennant Publishing
(15) Simone Pennant, the founder of the The TV Collective, which helps run Henry's campaign, said such "incidents will keep happening" unless the BBC hires more black and Asian staff on Top Gear and its other shows.
(16) Psilotornus confertus Machalska, 1974 was found in the water-shrew Neomys fodiens Pennant, 1771 in the Oriental Pyrenean Mountains.
(17) In France, the larval forms (daughter sporocysts, cercariae and metacercariae) of M. oocysta develop in Hydrobia ulvae Pennant living on Norman coasts of the Channel; they are described again.
(18) However, it is understood that there is behind-the-scenes contact between the Times independent directors and News Corp executives – with Mike Darcey, the chief executive of News International, in contact with Rupert Pennant-Rea, one of the independent directors.
(19) "Our real role is to ensure that the editors of the Times and Sunday Times are able to run their newspapers according to their own judgments and with the resources adequate to that task", according to the leader of Wapping's "independent national directors", Rupert Pennant-Rea.
(20) Mike Darcey has a scheduled meeting next month with the directors but is expected to talk to the de facto chairman of the directors, former deputy Bank of England governor Rupert Pennant-Rea, in the coming days to see if they can establish a way of winning their approval for John Witherow and Martin Ivens, who were announced as "acting editors" of the Times and Sunday Times, respectively late on Friday.