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Crowd vs. Crown — What's the Difference?

Crowd vs. Crown — What's the Difference?

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Crowd

Generally speaking, a crowd is defined as a group of people that have gathered for a common purpose or intent such as at a demonstration, a sports event, or during looting (this is known as an acting crowd), or may simply be made up of many people going about their business in a busy area. The term "the crowd" may sometimes refer to the lower orders of people in general.

Crown

A circular ornamental headdress worn by a monarch as a symbol of authority, usually made of or decorated with precious metals and jewels.

Crowd

A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.

Crown

The top or highest part of something
The crown of the hill

Crowd

The common people; the populace.
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Crown

The part of a tooth projecting from the gum
A thin layer of enamel covers the crown

Crowd

A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation
The over-30 crowd.

Crown

A British coin with a face value of five shillings or 25 pence, now minted only for commemorative purposes.

Crowd

A group of people attending a public function; an audience
The play drew a small but appreciative crowd.

Crown

A paper size, 384 × 504 mm.

Crowd

A large number of things positioned or considered together.

Crown

Ceremonially place a crown on the head of (someone) in order to invest them as a monarch
He went to Rome to be crowned
She was crowned queen in 1953

Crowd

An ancient Celtic stringed instrument that was bowed or plucked. Also called crwth.

Crown

Rest on or form the top of
The distant knoll was crowned with trees

Crowd

Chiefly British A fiddle.

Crown

Be the triumphant culmination of (an effort or endeavour, especially a prolonged one)
Years of struggle were crowned by a state visit to Paris

Crowd

To gather together in a limited space
The children crowded around the TV.

Crown

Fit a crown to (a tooth)
Simple fillings no longer suffice and the tooth has to be crowned

Crowd

To move forward by pressing or shoving
A bevy of reporters crowded toward the candidate.

Crown

Hit on the head
She contained the urge to crown him

Crowd

To force by pressing or shoving
Police crowded the spectators back to the viewing stand.

Crown

(of a baby's head during labour) fully appear in the vaginal opening prior to emerging
I was able to see our baby's head crowning

Crowd

To force away by taking up space; displace
Urban sprawl crowded the farmers out of the valley.

Crown

An ornamental circlet or head covering, often made of precious metal set with jewels and worn as a symbol of sovereignty.

Crowd

To draw or stand very near or too near to
The batter crowded the plate. Please don't crowd me.

Crown

The power, position, or empire of a monarch or of a state governed by constitutional monarchy.

Crowd

To press, cram, or force tightly together
Crowded the clothes into the closet.

Crown

The monarch as head of state.

Crowd

To fill or occupy to overflowing
Books crowded the shelves.

Crown

A distinction or reward for achievement, especially a title signifying championship in a sport.

Crowd

(Informal) To put pressure on; assail
Dark thoughts were crowding him.

Crown

Something resembling a diadem in shape.

Crowd

(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
The man crowded into the packed room.

Crown

A coin stamped with a crown or crowned head on one side.

Crowd

(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
They crowded through the archway and into the park.

Crown

Abbr. cr. A silver coin formerly used in Great Britain and worth five shillings.

Crowd

(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.

Crown

Any one of several coins, such as the koruna, the krona, or the krone, having a name that means “crown.”

Crowd

(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together

Crown

The top or highest part of the head.

Crowd

To push, to press, to shove.
They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.

Crown

The head itself.

Crowd

(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

Crown

The top or upper part of a hat.

Crowd

To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

Crown

The highest point or summit.

Crowd

(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

Crown

The highest, primary, or most valuable part, attribute, or state
Considered the rare Turkish stamp the crown of their collection.

Crowd

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

Crown

The part of a tooth that is covered by enamel and projects beyond the gum line.

Crowd

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.

Crown

An artificial substitute for the natural crown of a tooth.

Crowd

Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.

Crown

(Nautical) The lowest part of an anchor, where the arms are joined to the shank.

Crowd

(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

Crown

(Architecture) The highest portion of an arch, including the keystone.

Crowd

A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.

Crown

The upper, spreading part of a tree or shrub.

Crowd

(obsolete) crwth

Crown

The part of a plant, usually at ground level, where the stem and roots merge.

Crowd

A fiddle.

Crown

The persistent, mostly underground base of a perennial herb.

Crowd

To push, to press, to shove.

Crown

See corona.

Crowd

To press or drive together; to mass together.

Crown

The crest of an animal, especially of a bird.

Crowd

To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.

Crown

The portion of a cut gem above the girdle.

Crowd

To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

Crown

To put a crown or garland on the head of.

Crowd

To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
The whole company crowded about the fire.
Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.

Crown

To invest with regal power; enthrone.

Crowd

To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.

Crown

To confer honor, dignity, or reward upon.

Crowd

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

Crown

To surmount or be the highest part of.

Crowd

A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
A crowd of islands.

Crown

To form the crown, top, or chief ornament of.

Crowd

A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
The crowd of Vanity Fair.
Crowds that stream from yawning doors.

Crown

To bring to completion or successful conclusion; consummate
Crowned the event with a lavish reception.

Crowd

The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.

Crown

(Dentistry) To put a crown on (a tooth).

Crowd

An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.

Crown

(Games) To make (a piece in checkers that has reached the last row) into a king by placing another piece upon it.

Crowd

A large number of things or people considered together;
A crowd of insects assembled around the flowers

Crown

(Informal) To hit on the head.

Crowd

An informal body of friends;
He still hangs out with the same crowd

Crown

To reach a stage in labor when a large segment of the fetal scalp is visible at the vaginal orifice. Used of a fetus.

Crowd

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together;
We herded the children into a spare classroom

Crown

A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

Crowd

Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing;
The students crowded the auditorium

Crown

A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

Crowd

To gather together in large numbers;
Men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah

Crown

(by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
The martyr’s crown

Crowd

Approach a certain age or speed;
She is pushing fifty

Crown

Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

Crown

(metonym) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.

Crown

The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.

Crown

The top part of something:

Crown

The topmost part of the head.

Crown

The highest part of a hill.

Crown

The top section of a hat, above the brim.

Crown

The raised centre of a road.

Crown

The highest part of an arch.

Crown

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

Crown

The dome of a furnace.

Crown

The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.

Crown

(architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.

Crown

Splendor; culmination; acme.

Crown

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, korona.

Crown

(historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

Crown

(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.

Crown

(forestry) The top of a tree.

Crown

The part of a tooth above the gums.

Crown

(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

Crown

(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling

Crown

(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet

Crown

(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.

Crown

(paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.

Crown

(paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.

Crown

(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location

Crown

(medical) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina

Crown

(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening

Crown

(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

Crown

(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

Crown

A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.

Crown

A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.

Crown

The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

Crown

Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
Crown prince

Crown

Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
A crown fire

Crown

To place a crown on the head of.

Crown

To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.

Crown

To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

Crown

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

Crown

To declare (someone) a winner.

Crown

(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.

Crown

(transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.

Crown

To hit on the head.

Crown

(video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.

Crown

(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.

Crown

(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.

Crown

(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

Crown

(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.

Crown

(slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)

Crown

(archaic) crow

Crown

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.
They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Crown

A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.

Crown

The person entitled to wear a regal or imperial crown; the sovereign; - with the definite article.
Parliament may be dissolved by the demise of the crown.
Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown.

Crown

Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty.
There is a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself.

Crown

Anything which imparts beauty, splendor, honor, dignity, or finish.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.

Crown

Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection.
Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

Crown

The topmost part of anything; the summit.
The steepy crown of the bare mountains.

Crown

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.
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.

Crown

The part of a hat above the brim.

Crown

The part of a tooth which projects above the gum; also, the top or grinding surface of a tooth.

Crown

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.

Crown

Same as Corona.

Crown

That part of an anchor where the arms are joined to the shank.

Crown

The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.

Crown

The dome of a furnace.

Crown

The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.

Crown

A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.

Crown

A size of writing paper. See under Paper.

Crown

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.

Crown

An ornaments or decoration representing a crown; as, the paper is stamped with a crown.

Crown

To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
Her who fairest does appear,Crown her queen of all the year.
Crown him, and say, "Long live our emperor."

Crown

To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor.

Crown

To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill.
One day shall crown the alliance.
To crown the whole, came a proposition.

Crown

To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

Crown

To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

Crown

The Crown (or the reigning monarch) as the symbol of the power and authority of a monarchy;
The colonies revolted against the Crown

Crown

The enamel covered part of a tooth above the gum

Crown

A wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory

Crown

An ornamental jewelled headdress signifying sovereignty

Crown

The part of a hat (the vertex) covering the crown of the head

Crown

An English coin worth 5 shillings

Crown

The upper branches and leaves of a tree

Crown

The top point of a mountain or hill;
The view from the peak was magnificent
They clambered to the summit of Monadnock

Crown

The award given to the champion

Crown

The top of the head

Crown

The center of a cambered road

Crown

Invest with regal power; enthrone;
The prince was crowned in Westminster Abbey

Crown

Be the culminating event;
The speech crowned the meeting

Crown

Form the topmost part of;
A weather vane crowns the building

Crown

Put an enamel cover on;
Crown my teeth

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