(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.
Throne
Definition:
(n.) A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.
(n.) Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage.
(n.) A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
(v. t.) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
(v. t.) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
(v. i.) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
Example Sentences:
(1) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(2) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(3) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
(4) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(5) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
(6) magazine-contracted, half-million pound wedding, Posh and Becks sat on a pair of golden thrones.
(7) Thrones, perhaps struggling under the weight of its monolithic pop culture status, or simply heartlessly breathtaking to begin with, really isn’t about anything anymore.
(8) The bestselling Game of Thrones author George RR Martin has offered to screen The Interview in his own independent cinema, in the wake of what he described as “a stunning display of corporate cowardice” from Sony and America’s cinema chains.
(9) Revelations about Charles' power of consent come amid continued concern that the heir to the throne may be overstepping his constitutional role by lobbying ministers directly and through his charities on pet concerns such as traditional architecture and the environment.
(10) It is now perhaps more widely known as a backdrop for the kingdoms of Dorne and Meereen in Game of Thrones.
(11) Look back 25 years | Dirk Laabs Read more A few ruins away, near the remains of the throne room, 18-year-old Berliner, Sarah Akopova, is also sympathetic.
(12) Lumping HBO in with Fox's FX might give it extra leverage – smooth out those less successful seasons when it launches The Newsroom rather than Game of Thrones – or it might not.
(13) They are making a big play for more content and Time Warner has some of the best global franchises you could hope to have – look at Harry Potter, Batman and HBO.” Time Warner’s lucrative cable channel business includes TNT, TBS and HBO, home to shows including Game of Thrones.
(14) He’s 66 and has waited for the throne all his life.
(15) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.
(16) Tim Loughton, a Sussex MP, said it would be a "nonsense" to stop the heir to the throne talking to ministers as he had always come across as "well briefed and knowledgeable" in their meetings.
(17) The new queen would have died less than seven months later, handing the throne to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
(18) If Muqrin does come to the throne, he is likely to be the last of the sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud), who died in 1953.
(19) As for Labour, the rolling pageant of departures from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet , and the countermoves against them, frequently resembled an episode of Game of Thrones re-enacted by the Teletubbies.
(20) In the first series of Game of Thrones, he is shown serving a warrior king gone to seed and oppressed by serious marital problems.