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canopy
English
Etymology
From Middle English canape, canope, from Latin c?n?p?um (“curtain”) (ultimately from Ancient Greek ????????? (k?n?peîon)), through Medieval Latin canopeum, or possibly Old French conope, conopé (compare modern French canapé). Doublet of canapé and conopeum.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kæ.n?.pi/
Noun
canopy (plural canopies)
- A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
- golden canopies and beds of state
- Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
- The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
- In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
- In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
Descendants
- ? French: canopée (calque)
- ? Spanish: canopy
Translations
Verb
canopy (third-person singular simple present canopies, present participle canopying, simple past and past participle canopied)
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with a canopy.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:
- Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus, lines 543-5,[2]
- I sat me down to watch upon a bank
- With ivy canopied, and interwove
- With flaunting honeysuckle […]
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Franklenstein, Chapter 11,[3]
- I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me, and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me.
- 1850, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Vol. XVI, No. 38, Vepery: J.P. Bantleman, p. 366,[4]
- The walls of the vestibule and passage passing round the sanctuary, are covered with compartments holding high reliefs of Buddha seated on a lotus, the stem of which is grasped by two figures wearing wigs and tiaras, canopied by snakes; […]
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- (intransitive) To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
- 2013, Tara Morris, “Canopying In Rio Claro,” colombiareports.com, 11 March, 2013,[5]
- If you’re looking for a little adventure in Colombia, look no further than canopying through Rio Claro’s lush, secluded jungle, located just five hours bus ride from either Medellin or Bogota.
- 2013, Tara Morris, “Canopying In Rio Claro,” colombiareports.com, 11 March, 2013,[5]
See also
- canopied
- canopy bed
Spanish
Noun
canopy m (uncountable)
- (Caribbean) zipline (activity)
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crown
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English coroune, croune, crowne, from Anglo-Norman coroune, curune, corone (French couronne), from Latin cor?na (“garland, crown, wreath”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kor?n?). Doublet of corona. Displaced Middle English: beigh, bei?, b?, bi?, by fromOld English b?ag (“crown, garland, necklace”).
- (paper size): So called because originally watermarked with a crown.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /k?a?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Noun
crown (plural crowns)
- A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- Synonyms: coronet, diadem
- A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- Synonyms: garland, wreath
- (by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
- Synonyms: award, garland, honor, prize, wreath
- Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
- Synonyms: monarchy, royalty
- (metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
- (by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
- The top part of something:
- The topmost part of the head.
- Synonyms: apex, top
- The highest part of a hill.
- Synonyms: apex, peak, summit, top
- Antonyms: base, bottom, foot
- The top section of a hat, above the brim.
- The raised centre of a road.
- The highest part of an arch.
- The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
- The dome of a furnace.
- The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
- The topmost part of the head.
- (architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
- Splendor; culmination; acme.
- Synonyms: completion, culmination, finish, splendor
- 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.
- (historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
- Synonyms: caser, tusheroon, tush, tosheroon, tosh, bull, caroon, thick-un, coachwheel, cartwheel
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:
- 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.
- Synonym: corona
- (dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
- Synonyms: dental crown, dental cap
- (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.
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- (paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
- (paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
- (chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
- (medicine) 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
- 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.
- 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
- (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 bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
- (African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
- The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (kuraun)
- ? Maori: karauna
Translations
Adjective
crown (not comparable)
- Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
- Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
Translations
Verb
crown (third-person singular simple present crowns, present participle crowning, simple past and past participle crowned)
- To place a crown on the head of.
- To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- Her who fairest does appear,
Crown her queen of all the year.
- Her who fairest does appear,
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
- Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
- 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic
- To crown the whole, came a proposition.
- 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- 2010 Scott Gallagher Dancing Upon the Shore pg 157
- He's crowning . . . His head's coming through
- 2010 Scott Gallagher Dancing Upon the Shore pg 157
- (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.
- To hit on the head.
- (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.
- (slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)
- Synonym: grow a tail
- 2020, Eddy Keymolen, amerikanischen Umgangssprache page 148
- Where's the bathroom, I'm crowning here!
Derived terms
- crowned
Translations
See also
- coronation
- ????
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?o?n/
- Rhymes: -o?n
Verb
crown
- (archaic) past participle of crow
- 1823, Byron, Don Juan
- The cock had crown.
- 1823, Byron, Don Juan
Middle English
Noun
crown
- Alternative form of coroune
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