Cover vs Crown - What's the difference?
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A lid.
A hiding from view.
A front and back of a book or magazine.
A top sheet of a bed.
A cover charge.
A setting at a restaurant table or formal .
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, chapter=1 (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
(topology) A set (more often known as a family ) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
(philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
(military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
(legal) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
(insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
(espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story
The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
(music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
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To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
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To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
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To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
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*:the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland
(label) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
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To deal with.
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To be enough money for.
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(label) To act as a replacement.
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(label) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
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(label) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or'' to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; ''or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
To provide insurance coverage for.
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To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
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To protect or control (a piece or square).
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A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
(heraldry) A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry
A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
(label) Any reward of victory or a mark of honor.
Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
* Blackstone
The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
* Macaulay
The topmost part of the head.
* Shakespeare
* Bunyan
The highest part of a hill.
* Dryden
The top section of a hat, above the brim.
The raised centre of a road.
The highest part of an arch.
Splendor; culmination; acme.
* Milton
Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone
# (historical) Particularly, a former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
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#*:Half-a-crown'' is known as an (alderman), (half a bull), (half a tusheroon), and a (madza caroon); whilst a ''crown'' piece, or ''five shillings , may be called either a (bull), or a (caroon), or a (cartwheel), or a (coachwheel), or a (thick-un), or a (tusheroon).
(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
(forestry) The top of a tree.
(anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
(nautical, in the plural) The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
(paper) A standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.
(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
(medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
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(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
The dome of a furnace.
(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
(African-American colloquialism) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; elliptical for church crown.
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*:"His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat]."
Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
To place a crown on the head of.
To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
* Dryden
To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
* Bible, Psalms viii. 5
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
* Byron
* Motley
To declare (someone) a winner.
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(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
To hit on the head.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
In lang=en terms the difference between cover and crown
is that cover is of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions while crown is a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 inches x 15 inches.In military terms the difference between cover and crown
is that cover is a solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire while crown is to effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.In transitive terms the difference between cover and crown
is that cover is to have as an assignment or responsibility while crown is to cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.As nouns the difference between cover and crown
is that cover is a lid while crown is a royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.As adjectives the difference between cover and crown
is that cover is of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine while crown is of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.As verbs the difference between cover and crown
is that cover is to place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect while crown is to place a crown on the head of.As a proper noun Crown is
the sovereign, in a monarchic country.cover
English
(wikipedia cover)Noun
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- (Knight)
Derived terms
* cover board * cover charge * cover letter * cover story * cover version * take cover * tonneau coverAdjective
(-)Verb
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Quotations
* (English Citations of "cover")Derived terms
* coverage * cover up * cover one's bases * coverer * discover * duck and cover * recover * uncoverDescendants
* German: (l)crown
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) coroune, curune, (etyl) corone (French couronne), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Parliament may be dissolved by the demise of the crown .
- Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown .
- Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown .
- From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches.
- Twenty things which I set down: / This done, I twenty more had in my crown .
- the steepy crown of the bare mountains
- mutual love, the crown of all our bliss
- (Totten)
- You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.
Synonyms
* (reward of victory or a mark of honor) award, garland, honor/honour, prize, wreath * coronet * (representation of such a headdress) * (wreath or band for the head) garland, wreath * (imperial or regal power) monarchy, royalty * (of the head) apex, top * (of a hill) apex, peak, summit, top * (centre of a road) * (highest part of an arch) * (of a hat) top * completion, culmination, finish, splendor/splendour * (currency) * (British coin) caser, tusheroon, tush, tosheroon, tosh, bull, caroon, thick-un, coachwheel, cartwheel * (part of plant) * corona *Antonyms
* (of a hill) base, bottom, footDerived terms
* crown achievement * crown cactus * crown colony * Crown Court * crowned pigeon * crown estate * crown ether * crown fire * crown flower * crown gall * crown grafting * crown green * crown green bowls * crown lands * crown mammal * crown jewels, Crown Jewels * crown of thorns * crown prince * crown princess * crown ward * crown wheel * firecrown * forecrown * half-crown * nanocrown * plea of the crown * triple crownAdjective
(-)- crown prince
- a crown fire
Verb
(en verb)- Her who fairest does appear, / Crown her queen of all the year.
- Thou hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- the grove that crowns yon tufted hill
- To crown the whole, came a proposition.
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citation, passage=&lquo;[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended. She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.}}