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.


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  1. Base as a noun:

    Something from which other things extend; a foundation. A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.

  2. Base as a noun:

    The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

  3. Base as a noun:

    A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.

  4. Base as a noun:

    The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

  5. Base as a noun (cooking, painting, pharmacy):

    A basic but essential component or ingredient.

  6. Base as a noun:

    A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ure"

  7. Base as a noun (cosmetics):

    Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. Base as a noun (architecture):

    The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

  11. Base as a noun (biology, biochemistry):

    A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.

  12. Base as a noun (botany):

    The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.

  13. Base as a noun (electronics):

    The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

  14. 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.

  15. Base as a noun (heraldiccharge):

    The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.

  16. Base as a noun (heraldry):

    The lower part of the field. See .

  17. Base as a noun (mathematics):

    A number raised to the power of an exponent.

    Examples:

    "The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3."

  18. Base as a noun (mathematics):

    .

  19. Base as a noun (topology):

    The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

  20. Base as a noun (topology):

    A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.

  21. 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.

  22. Base as a noun (linguistics):

    A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

  23. Base as a noun (music):

  24. Base as a noun (military, historical):

    The smallest kind of cannon.

  25. Base as a noun (archaic):

    The housing of a horse.

  26. 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.

  27. Base as a noun (obsolete):

    The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

  28. Base as a noun (obsolete):

    An apron.

  29. 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"

  1. Base as a verb (transitive):

    To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.

  2. Base as a verb (transitive):

    To be located (at a particular place).

  3. Base as a verb (acrobatics, cheerleading):

    To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

  1. Base as an adjective (obsolete):

    Low in height; short.

  2. Base as an adjective:

    Low in place or position.

  3. Base as an adjective (obsolete):

    Of low value or degree.

  4. Base as an adjective (archaic):

    Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.

  5. Base as an adjective:

    Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.

  6. Base as an adjective (now, rare):

    Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.

  7. Base as an adjective:

    Designating those metals which are not classed as or .

  8. Base as an adjective:

    Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.

    Examples:

    "'base coin"

    "'base bullion"

  9. Base as an adjective (obsolete):

    Of illegitimate birth; bastard.

  10. Base as an adjective:

    Not classical or correct.

    Examples:

    "'base Latin"

    "rfquotek Fuller"

  11. Base as an adjective:

    Examples:

    "the base tone of a violin"

  12. 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."

  1. Base as a noun (now, chiefly, US, historical):

    The game of prisoners' bars.

  1. Crown as a noun:

    A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

  2. 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

  3. Crown as a noun:

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

  4. Crown as a noun (by extension):

    Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

    Examples:

    "the martyr's crown"

  5. Crown as a noun:

    Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

  6. Crown as a noun (metonym):

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

  7. 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."

  8. 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.

  9. Crown as a noun (architecture):

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

  10. Crown as a noun:

    Splendor; culmination; acme.

  11. 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.

  12. Crown as a noun (historical):

    A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.

  13. Crown as a noun (botany):

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

  14. Crown as a noun (forestry):

    The top of a tree.

  15. Crown as a noun (anatomy):

    The part of a tooth above the gums.

  16. Crown as a noun (dentistry):

    A prosthetic covering for a tooth.

  17. Crown as a noun (nautical):

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

  18. Crown as a noun (nautical):

    The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet

  19. Crown as a noun (nautical):

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

  20. Crown as a noun (nautical, in the plural):

    The bights formed by the turns of a cable.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Totten"

  21. Crown as a noun (paper):

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

  22. Crown as a noun (paper):

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

  23. Crown as a noun (chemistry):

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

  24. Crown as a noun (medical):

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

  25. Crown as a noun (firearms):

    A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening

  26. Crown as a noun (geometry):

    The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

  27. 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.

  28. Crown as a noun:

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

  29. Crown as a noun (AAVE, colloquial):

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

  30. Crown as a noun:

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

  1. Crown as an adjective:

    Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

    Examples:

    "crown prince"

  2. Crown as an adjective:

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

    Examples:

    "a crown fire"

  1. Crown as a verb:

    To place a crown on the head of.

  2. Crown as a verb:

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

  3. Crown as a verb:

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

  4. Crown as a verb:

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

  5. Crown as a verb:

    To declare (someone) a winner.

  6. 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."

  7. 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.

  8. Crown as a verb:

    To hit on the head.

  9. 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.

  10. 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."

  11. Crown as a verb (firearms):

    To widen the opening of the barrel.

  12. Crown as a verb (military):

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

  13. Crown as a verb (nautical):

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

  1. Crown as a verb (archaic):