English Dictionary

king

/kɪŋ/

verb

To crown king, to make (a person) king. / To rule over as king. / To perform the duties of a king. / To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.

The people gathered to crown the king.

意味（1）

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

The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […] .

意味（2）

To rule over as king.

And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d, / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.

意味（3）

To perform the duties of a king.

He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.

意味（4）

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

The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.

意味（5）

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.

If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.

意味（6）

To dress and perform as a drag king.

Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of home and host cultures.