king vs queen

king

noun
  • A king-sized bed. 

  • Something that has a preeminent position. 

  • The central pin or skittle in bowling games. 

  • A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit. 

  • A male dragonfly; a drake. 

  • A king skin. 

  • A powerful or majorly influential person. 

  • A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. 

  • The principal chess 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. 

  • 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. 

  • The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex. 

  • A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2. 

verb
  • To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over. 

  • To rule over as king. 

  • 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. 

  • To crown king, to make (a person) king. 

  • To perform the duties of a king. 

  • To dress and perform as a drag king. 

queen

noun
  • Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding. 

  • A queen apple. 

  • An adult female cat capable of breeding. 

  • A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus). 

  • A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate. 

  • The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory). 

  • A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. 

  • s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp. 

  • A queen scallop. 

  • An excellent woman. 

  • A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field. 

  • An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship. 

  • A type of large roofing slate. 

  • The wife, consort, or widow of a king. 

  • A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit. 

  • A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom. 

  • Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area. 

  • A female monarch. 

verb
  • To provide with a new queen bee. 

  • To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen. 

  • To promote a pawn to a queen. 

  • To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head. 

  • To be the queen bee of a colony. 

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