Found 3 items, similar to Queening.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: queen
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: queen
queen
n 1: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such
as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay
eggs
2: a female sovereign ruler [syn:
queen regnant,
female monarch
] [ant:
king,
king]
3: the wife or widow of a king
4: something personified as a woman who is considered the best
or most important of her kind;
“Paris is the queen of
cities”;
“the queen of ocean liners”
5: a competitor who holds a preeminent position [syn:
king,
world-beater]
6: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn:
fagot,
faggot,
fag,
fairy,
nance,
pansy,
queer,
poof,
poove,
pouf]
7: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a
queen
8: (chess) the most powerful piece
9: especially large and only member of a colony of naked mole
rats to bear offspring sired by only a few males
10: female cat [syn:
tabby]
queen
v 1: promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
2: become a queen;
“her pawn queened”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Queening
Queening
\Queen"ing\, n. [See
Queen apple.] (Bot.)
Any one of several kinds of apples, as
summer queening,
scarlet queening, and
early queening. An apple called the
queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
[1913 Webster]
Queen
\Queen\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Queened; p. pr. & vb. n.
Queening.] (Chess.)
To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion)
of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
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