king
suomi-englanti sanakirjaking englannista suomeksi
ykkönen, kuningas
pamppu
Substantiivi
king englanniksi
King
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
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The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
(quote-journal)And the high court Amsterdam has done it by deciding that all officials and public servants shall take their oath of allegiance not to Queen Wilhelmina but to King Wilhelmina.
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(quote-book)Attah-Ebulejonu, like Hatshepsut of Egypt before her, ruled as (and was remembered as) a king, not queen, perhaps setting the precedent for the coronation of another female king, Ahebi Ugbabe, about four centuries later.(..)This time, the female king would not rule in the Igala kingdom nor would she be of Igala origin. Instead, the king would be an Igbo woman who had lived in Igalaland for many years, who had come of age and matured there and in the process had imbibed the cultural values and mores of the people with whom she had lived in exile.
A powerful or majorly influential person.
(RQ:Chambers Younger Set)and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.(nb..)"
{{quote-journal|en|date=2014-06-21|volume=411|issue=8892|magazine=The Economist
Something that has a preeminent position.
{{quote-journal|en|date=June 3, 2012|author=Nathan Rabin|title=TV: Revie THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)
(senseid) The principal piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
(senseid) A card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
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A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
{{quote-text|en|year=1878|author=John Henry Walsh|title=British Rural Sports|page=712
A skin.
A king-sized bed.
{{quote-text|en|year=2002|author=Scott W. Donkin; Gerard Meyer|title=Peak Performance: Body and Mind|page=119
A vertex in a graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
To crown king, to make (a person) king.
1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, ''South Atlantic Review'', Volume 47, %22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22|%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=42MYTpSCKa7smAW4q9kR&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCTg8 page 16,
- The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play (..).
{{quote-text|en|year=2008|author=William Shakespeare|editor=A. R. Braunmuller|title=Macbeth|section=Introduction, page 24
To rule over as king.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
To perform the duties of a king.
1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, ''The Railroad Trainman'', Volume 35, %22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22|%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=a2sYTr7mGfDRmAWpn5kn&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEIQ6AEwBjha page 675,
- He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
{{quote-book|en|year=2001|author=Chip R. Bell|title=Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Muu2Fb4JYtcC&pg=PA6&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=oHsYTtOzFqyemQXKpqgC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CE0Q6AEwCDjIAQv=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false|page=6
To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to it over.
{{quote-book|en|year=1917|author=Edna Ferber|title=Fanny Herself|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=xLoqDnHULCIC&pg=PA32&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=54gYTtP2K8b-mAWP6vwg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwATjcAQv=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false|page=32
To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
{{quote-book|en|year=1957|editor=Bertram Vivian Bowden|title=Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=HcIrAAAAYAAJ&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=l2YYTv67Ga_3mAXHu4T7Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBDhG|page=302
{{quote-book|en|year=1986|author=Rick DeMarinis|title=The Burning Women of Far Cry|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=bT3lAAAAMAAJ&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=BncYTqSEEczzmAXU6dykDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBTiWAQ|page=100
To dress and perform as a king.
{{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=Audrey Yue|chapter=King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia|editors=Fran Martin; Peter Jackson; Audrey Yue; Mark McLelland|title=AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=PssO1pfKDtwC&pg=PA266&dq=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22+-intitle:pareidolia&hl=en&ei=kVoYTpXkNofMmAXHjoS1CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAjgUv=onepage&q=%22kinged%22%7C%22kinging%22%20-intitle%3Apareidolia&f=false|page=266
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