The difference between Base and Crown
When used as nouns, base means a supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object, whereas crown means a royal, imperial or princely headdress.
When used as verbs, base means to give as its foundation or starting point, whereas crown means to place a crown on the head of.
When used as adjectives, base means low in height, whereas crown means of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
check bellow for the other definitions of Base and Crown
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Base as a noun:
Something from which other things extend; a foundation. A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
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Base as a noun:
The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
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Base as a noun:
A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
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Base as a noun:
The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
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Base as a noun (cooking, painting, pharmacy):
A basic but essential component or ingredient.
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Base as a noun:
A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
Examples:
"rfquotek Ure"
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Base as a noun (cosmetics):
Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
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Base as a noun (chemistry):
Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
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Base as a noun (baseball):
Important areas in games and sports. A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek. One of the three places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out.
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Base as a noun (architecture):
The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
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Base as a noun (biology, biochemistry):
A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
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Base as a noun (botany):
The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
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Base as a noun (electronics):
The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
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Base as a noun (geometry):
The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
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Base as a noun (heraldiccharge):
The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
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Base as a noun (heraldry):
The lower part of the field. See .
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Base as a noun (mathematics):
A number raised to the power of an exponent.
Examples:
"The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3."
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Base as a noun (mathematics):
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Base as a noun (topology):
The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
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Base as a noun (topology):
A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
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Base as a noun (acrobatics, cheerleading):
In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
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Base as a noun (linguistics):
A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
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Base as a noun (music):
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Base as a noun (military, historical):
The smallest kind of cannon.
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Base as a noun (archaic):
The housing of a horse.
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Base as a noun (historical, in the plural):
A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
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Base as a noun (obsolete):
The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
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Base as a noun (obsolete):
An apron.
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Base as a noun:
A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
Examples:
"rfquotek Lyman"
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Base as a verb (transitive):
To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
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Base as a verb (transitive):
To be located (at a particular place).
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Base as a verb (acrobatics, cheerleading):
To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
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Base as an adjective (obsolete):
Low in height; short.
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Base as an adjective:
Low in place or position.
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Base as an adjective (obsolete):
Of low value or degree.
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Base as an adjective (archaic):
Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
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Base as an adjective:
Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
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Base as an adjective (now, rare):
Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
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Base as an adjective:
Designating those metals which are not classed as or .
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Base as an adjective:
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
Examples:
"'base coin"
"'base bullion"
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Base as an adjective (obsolete):
Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
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Base as an adjective:
Not classical or correct.
Examples:
"'base Latin"
"rfquotek Fuller"
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Base as an adjective:
Examples:
"the base tone of a violin"
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Base as an adjective (legal):
Not held by honourable service.
Examples:
"A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant."
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Base as a noun (now, chiefly, US, historical):
The game of prisoners' bars.
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Crown as a noun:
A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
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Crown as a noun (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
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Crown as a noun:
A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
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Crown as a noun (by extension):
Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
Examples:
"the martyr's crown"
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Crown as a noun:
Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
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Crown as a noun (metonym):
The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
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Crown as a noun (by extension, especially in, _, legal):
The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
Examples:
"Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown."
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Crown as a noun:
The top part of something: The topmost part of the head. The highest part of a hill. 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.
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Crown as a noun (architecture):
A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
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Crown as a noun:
Splendor; culmination; acme.
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Crown as a noun (translation):
Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone.
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Crown as a noun (historical):
A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
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Crown as a noun (botany):
The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
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Crown as a noun (forestry):
The top of a tree.
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Crown as a noun (anatomy):
The part of a tooth above the gums.
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Crown as a noun (dentistry):
A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
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Crown as a noun (nautical):
A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
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Crown as a noun (nautical):
The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
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Crown as a noun (nautical):
The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
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Crown as a noun (nautical, in the plural):
The bights formed by the turns of a cable.
Examples:
"rfquotek Totten"
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Crown as a noun (paper):
In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
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Crown as a noun (paper):
In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
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Crown as a noun (chemistry):
A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
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Crown as a noun (medical):
During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
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Crown as a noun (firearms):
A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
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Crown as a noun (geometry):
The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
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Crown as a noun (religion):
A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
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Crown as a noun:
A whole turkey with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
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Crown as a noun (AAVE, colloquial):
A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
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Crown as a noun:
The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands
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Crown as an adjective:
Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
Examples:
"crown prince"
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Crown as an adjective:
Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
Examples:
"a crown fire"
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Crown as a verb:
To place a crown on the head of.
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Crown as a verb:
To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
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Crown as a verb:
To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
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Crown as a verb:
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
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Crown as a verb:
To declare (someone) a winner.
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Crown as a verb (medicine):
Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
Examples:
"The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives."
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Crown as a verb (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.
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Crown as a verb:
To hit on the head.
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Crown as a verb (video games):
To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
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Crown as a verb (board games):
In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
Examples:
"“Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row."
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Crown as a verb (firearms):
To widen the opening of the barrel.
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Crown as a verb (military):
To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
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Crown as a verb (nautical):
To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
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Crown as a verb (archaic):
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