The difference between Crown and Top

When used as nouns, crown means a royal, imperial or princely headdress, whereas top means (irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top.

When used as verbs, crown means to place a crown on the head of, whereas top means to cover on the top or with a top.

When used as adjectives, crown means of, related to, or pertaining to a crown, whereas top means situated on the top of something.

Top is also adverb with the meaning: rated first.

check bellow for the other definitions of Crown and Top

  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):

  1. Top as a noun (nautical):

    The highest or uppermost part of something. (irrespective of present orientation) the part of something that is usually the top. The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc. A lid, cap or cover of a container. A garment worn to cover the torso. A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached. The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats. The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.

    Examples:

    "His kite got caught at the top of the tree."

    "We flipped the machine onto its top."

    "Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen.  nowrap Headings appear at the tops of pages."

    "Put a top on the toothpaste tube or it will go bad."

    "I bought this top as it matches my jeans."

  2. Top as a noun:

    A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.

    Examples:

    "The boy was amazed at how long the top would spin."

  3. Top as a noun:

    Someone who is eminent. The chief person; the most prominent one. The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.

    Examples:

    "to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school"

  4. Top as a noun (BDSM):

    A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

  5. Top as a noun (LGBT, slang):

    A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.

    Examples:

    "I prefer being a top, and my boyfriend prefers being a bottom."

  6. Top as a noun (physics):

    A top quark.

  7. Top as a noun:

    The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.

  8. Top as a noun (ropemaking):

    A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.

  9. Top as a noun (sound):

    Highest pitch or loudest volume.

    Examples:

    "She sang at the top of her voice."

  10. Top as a noun (wool manufacture):

    A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

  11. Top as a noun (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase ''[[on top of]]''):

    Eve; verge; point.

  12. Top as a noun:

    The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  13. Top as a noun (in the plural, slang, dated):

    Topboots.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Charles Dickens"

  14. Top as a noun (golf):

    A stroke on the top of the ball.

  15. Top as a noun (golf):

    A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.

  16. Top as a noun (in restaurants, preceded by a number):

    (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.

  1. Top as a verb:

    To cover on the top or with a top.

    Examples:

    "I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce."

  2. Top as a verb:

    To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)

    Examples:

    "I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair."

    "Top and tail the carrots."

  3. Top as a verb:

    To excel, to surpass, to beat.

    Examples:

    "Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar."

  4. Top as a verb:

    To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).

    Examples:

    "Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s."

  5. Top as a verb (British, slang):

    To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.

    Examples:

    "Depression causes many people to top themselves."

  6. Top as a verb (BDSM):

    To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

    Examples:

    "I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping."

    "Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom"."

  7. Top as a verb (slang, gay sexuality, intransitive):

    To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.

  8. Top as a verb (slang, gay sexuality, transitive):

    To anally penetrate.

  9. Top as a verb (archaic):

    To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.

    Examples:

    "lofty ridges and topping mountains"

    "rfquotek Derham"

  10. Top as a verb (archaic):

    To predominate.

    Examples:

    "topping passions"

  11. Top as a verb (archaic):

    To excel; to rise above others.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  12. Top as a verb (nautical):

    To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.

  13. Top as a verb (dyeing):

    To cover with another dye.

    Examples:

    "to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening"

  14. Top as a verb:

    To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).

  15. Top as a verb (slang, dated):

    To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.

  16. Top as a verb (of a horse):

    To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.

  17. Top as a verb:

    To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.

  18. Top as a verb:

    To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.

  19. Top as a verb (golf):

    To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.

  1. Top as an adjective:

    Situated on the top of something.

  2. Top as an adjective (informal):

    Best; of the highest quality or rank.

    Examples:

    "She's in the top dance school."

  3. Top as an adjective (informal):

    Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.

    Examples:

    "He's a top lawyer."

    "That is a top car."

  1. Top as an adverb:

    Rated first.

    Examples:

    "She came top in her French exam."

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