What's the difference between crown and wreath?

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.

Wreath


Definition:

  • (n.) Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers.
  • (n.) A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.
  • (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fully developed wreath around the Graafian follicle consists of sinusoidal capillaries.
  • (2) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel , visited Moscow the day after the parade to lay a wreath at a war memorial, but she criticised Russia’s “illegal” annexation of Crimea in a joint press conference with Putin.
  • (3) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
  • (4) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
  • (5) The proper vascular pattern of the rat ovarian follicle starts as a basket-like wreath of fine capillaries around the primary follicle.
  • (6) Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) Messages on the wreaths laid by David Cameron and Ed Miliband.
  • (7) Festival organisers are targeting the disposable bottle – one of the most conspicuous symbols of the throwaway culture that each year leaves the 900-acre Somerset site wreathed in plastic, with an estimated one million plastic bottles being used during the festival.
  • (8) Families will have the opportunity to lay floral wreaths.
  • (9) Francis, an Argentinian whose own grandparents emigrated from Italy, cast a wreath of flowers in the papal colours of yellow and white on to the water in commemoration of those who have died.
  • (10) The Labour leader came under immediate and intense fire on social media for appearing not to bow as deeply as other political leaders during his wreath-laying at the Whitehall war memorial.
  • (11) Within an hour of arriving in Seoul on Friday Obama laid a wreath at a war memorial honouring Americans killed in the Korean war.
  • (12) The prime minister bowed her head in respect after laying a large red and white wreath – the colours of Turkey’s flag – before Atatürk’s sarcophagus inside the imposing mausoleum on a hill in the centre of Ankara.
  • (13) She laid a wreath at the memorial, officially dedicated only recently, to honour their memory.
  • (14) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
  • (15) Unlike some museum reshuffles, news of Nairne's departure came wreathed in expressions of regret and praise for his term at the gallery, which has been described as "exemplary".
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turkish soldiers rehearse a wreath-laying ceremony at the Lone Pine monument to Australian soldiers killed during the Gallipoli campaign, near Eceabat, Turkey.
  • (17) In Ireland, the taoiseach, Enda Kenny, travelled north of the border to join the Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, in laying wreaths at the memorial in Enniskillen, in the heart of the town ripped apart by an IRA bomb during a Remembrance ceremony 26 years ago, killing 11 people.
  • (18) The sub-basal dense plate (SDP) with a wreath of anchoring filaments remained on the epidermal side of the split adjacent to the hemidesmosomal part of the plasma membrane of basal keratinocytes.
  • (19) The music stops, then the crowd gathers round as a woman in traditional dress places a large wreath on a grave.
  • (20) Immaculately dressed, wreathed in smoke, he sees through everyone and everything: “I am nobody’s fool.” His stature is in all senses overwhelming.