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crowning 音标拼音: [kr'ɑʊnɪŋ] a. 最高的,无比的 最高的,无比的 crowning adj 1: representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment; " the crowning accomplishment of his career" 2: forming or providing a crown or summit; " the crowning star on a Christmas tree"; " her hair was her crowning glory" Crown \ Crown\ ( kroun), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Crowned} ( kround); p. pr. & vb. n. { Crowning}.] [ OE. coronen, corunen, crunien, crounien, OF. coroner, F. couronner, fr. L. coronare, fr. corona a crown. See { Crown}, n.] 1. To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power. [ 1913 Webster] Her who fairest does appear, Crown her queen of all the year. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] Crown him, and say, " Long live our emperor." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. [ 1913 Webster] Thou . . . hast crowned him with glory and honor. -- Ps. viii. 5. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. [ 1913 Webster] Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill. -- Byron. [ 1913 Webster] One day shall crown the alliance. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] To crown the whole, came a proposition. -- Motley. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach. [ 1913 Webster] { To crown a knot} ( Naut.), to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other. [ 1913 Webster] 63 Moby Thesaurus words for " crowning": arch, banner, capital, capping, cardinal, central, champion, chief, closing, completing, completive, completory, concluding, conclusive, consummating, consummative, consummatory, culminating, culminative, dominant, ending, final, finalizing, finishing, first, focal, foremost, fulfilling, great, heading, headmost, hegemonic, last, leading, magisterial, main, master, outtopping, overruling, overtopping, paramount, perfecting, perfective, predominant, preeminent, preponderant, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, ranking, ruling, sovereign, star, stellar, supereminent, terminal, terminating, terminative, topflight, topping, ultimate
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