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Traducere în limba română
crown I. substantiv
1. cunună; coroană, coroniţă.
2. coroană (de rege); rege; regină;
to succeed to the crown a urma la tron.
3. Crown stat; putere supremă (în Anglia).
4. cunună (de flori), ghirlandă.
5. (fig.) încununare; culme.
6. (bot.) coroană (la pomi).
7. creştet (al capului); cap;
(fig.) over the crown of the head (îndrăgostit, înglodat în datorii) până peste urechi;
from the crown (of one’s head) to the sole (of one’s foot) din creştet până-n tălpi.
8. calotă (de pălărie).
9. coroană (dentară).
10. coroană (moedă de 5 şilingi).
11. format de hârtie (în U.S.A., 15 X 19 incii - de scris; în Anglia 161/2 X 19 incii-de tipar,15 X 19 incii-de desen).
12. (arhit.) coronament; vârf de boltă.
13. (mar.) diamantul ancorei, talpa ancorei.
14. (tehn.) jantă, obadă, coroană.
15. falcă (a nicovalei).
◊ (scoţ.) to keep the crown of the cause a) a merge prin mijlocul străzii sau drumului; b) (fig.) a deţine o funcţie importantă.
crown II. verb tranzitiv
1. a încununa; a încorona.
2. a premia.
3. a proclama.
4. (fig.), a încununa, a desăvârşi, a încheia;
to crown it all (şi) culmea, colac peste pupăză.
◊ (prov.) the end crowns the work sfârşitul încununează opera, urma alege.
5. a scoate / a face regină din (piese - la jocul de dame).
6. a pune o coroană la, a îmbrăca (un dinte).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why, you jack-fool, what would it be about save who should wear the crown of France?
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There's a song that says, “I'd crowns resign, to call her mine!”
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
The crown is only 1/4" high when manufactured and does not have a rolled edge or wire.
(Crown Metal Container Closure, Food and Drug Administration)
The room at the Crown was to witness it;—but it would be better than a common meeting in a crowd.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
How many half-crowns?
(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The crown!
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Not at all, sir; I ask only this: don't send for the jewels, and don't crown me with roses: you might as well put a border of gold lace round that plain pocket handkerchief you have there.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
He was engaged to dinner already both for that day and the next; he had met with some acquaintance at the Crown who would not be denied; he should have the honour, however, of waiting on them again on the morrow, etc., and so they parted—Fanny in a state of actual felicity from escaping so horrible an evil!
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
And when he went in he saw his wife sitting on a throne of gold and diamonds, with a golden crown upon her head; and on each side of her stood six fair maidens, each a head taller than the other.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
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