Prime vs Crown - What's the difference?
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First in importance, degree, or rank.
First in time, order, or sequence
* Tennyson
* Milton
First in excellence, quality, or value.
(mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
(mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
(mathematics) Having its complement closed under multiplication: said only of ideals.
Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
* Milton
(obsolete) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.
(Christianity, historical) One of the daily offices of prayer of the Western Church, associated with the early morning (typically 6 a.m.).
* Spenser
(obsolete) The early morning.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.vi:
The earliest stage of something.
* Hooker
* Waller
The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
* Eustace
* Dryden
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, title= * 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
The chief or best individual or part.
* Jonathan Swift
(music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
(fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
(algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
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, title= (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
(backgammon) Six consecutive blocks, which prevent the opponent's pieces from passing.
The symbol
(chemistry, obsolete) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.
An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
To prepare a mechanism for its main work.
To apply a coat of primer paint to.
(obsolete) To be renewed.
* Quarles
To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
(of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to coach.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To trim or prune.
(math) To mark with a prime mark.
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
* 2007 , David Schottke, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, First Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care , page 385
(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.
*2013 , Adam Boulton, Tony's Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=N0EeXxOiiCoC&pg=PT305&dq=%22church+crown%22+sunday+hat&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TxjmVPjaH4fgywPR9YBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22church%20crown%22%20sunday%20hat&f=false]
*:"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.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Tom Fordyce
, title=2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France, work=BBC Sport
(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.
As a verb prime
is .As a proper noun crown is
(government) the sovereign, in a monarchic country.prime
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) prime, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- Our prime concern here is to keep the community safe.
- Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.
- prime forests
- She was not the prime cause, but I myself.
- This is a prime location for a bookstore.
- Thirteen is a prime number.
- His starry helm, unbuckled, showed him prime / In manhood where youth ended.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* greatest, most important, main, primary, principal, top * excellent, top quality * earliest, first, original * (having no nontrivial factors) indivisible * (dividing a factor of any product it divides) *Noun
(en noun)- Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime .
- They all as glad, as birdes of ioyous Prime
- in the very prime of the world
- Hope waits upon the flowery prime .
- cut off in their prime
- the prime of youth
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- Once upon a time you dressed so fine. You threw the bums a dime in your prime , didn’t you?
- Give him always of the prime .
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Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’' cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving ' primes .}}
Synonyms
* bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak * (chief or best individual or part) choice, prize, quality, select * prime number (when an integer)Derived terms
(algebra) * cousin prime * primality * prime constellation * prime number * sexy prime * twin primeEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps related to primage.Verb
(prim)- You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
- I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
- Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, / As oft repeats her darkness, primes again.
- to prime a witness
- The boys are primed for mischief.
- (Thackeray)
- to prime trees
Synonyms
* (to apply a coat of primer paint to) ground, undercoatDerived terms
* primerSee also
* prime contract * prime decomposition * prime factorization * prime number * pseudoprimeReferences
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?’.}}