(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.
Subsidy
Definition:
(n.) Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.
(n.) Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.
(n.) A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.
Example Sentences:
(1) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(2) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(3) The statistics underline the significant strides being taken by the industry to meet a government drive to reduce Britain's carbon emissions, although the scale of renewable energy subsidies remains controversial.
(4) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
(5) In Australia there are taxpayer subsidies to keep these plants open, whereas in the US, China and parts of Europe, the government is taking actual direct action to close them down,” Cousins said.
(6) The environment secretary, Liz Truss , has stripped farmers of subsidies for solar farms, saying they are a “blight” that was pushing food production overseas.
(7) The US farm bill is a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation that controls the federal government's spending on farm subsidies, food for the domestic poor, agriculture conservation programmes, and overseas food aid , among other things.
(8) He asked for details of farm subsidies paid to opposition politicians including the Welsh Tory leader, Andrew RT Davies, the Welsh Liberal Democrat chief, Kirsty Williams, and Plaid Cymru's Llyr Huws Gruffydd.
(9) But an industrialist embedded in his department told the Guardian that ministers were now internally questioning renewable power and other schemes that involved substantial public subsidies.
(10) That means eliminating fossil fuel subsidies as well.
(11) Families indicated that the subsidy was very helpful in meeting special needs and had improved family life, eased financial worries, and reduced stress.
(12) It is likely most simply cannot afford full unsubsidized premiums.” Similarly, an analysis by the Urban Institute predicts that many of those who will lose their subsidies won’t be able to afford it without them and will cancel their insurance as a result.
(13) In 2004, the dispute settlement body , the "judicial branch" of the WTO, ruled that the US had to reform its cotton subsidies or face "retaliation" from Brazil.
(14) They envisage cuts in farm support payments of more than €150,000 a year, with a cap set at €300,000, in order to devote more subsidy to smaller, family-run farms and ensure a fairer distribution of funds.
(15) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(16) Npower blamed its planned rises on increases in wholesale gas and electricity costs and the cost of delivering government policies, such as smart metering and subsidies for renewable energy.
(17) A spokesman for SSE said: "It is unclear what subsidy is required to make investment in new nuclear work.
(18) UK renewable energy industry warns of legal action over subsidies Read more But the secretary of state is tasked with the destruction of this industry.
(19) It might sound like chump change, but the PTC alone amounts to $1 billion a year, and industry advocates insist that wind would hit the doldrums without these subsidies.
(20) Revealing how far taxpayers fund the private sector is not the same thing as saying the private sector should not receive any public subsidy at all.