queen
- noun
- /kwin/
- In chess, the queen can move any number of squares in straight lines, making her the most powerful piece.
- king and queen
- move the queen
- take the queen
He does not return his precise gaze too long in your direction for fear he blames you and proceeds to take your queen.
- He does not return his precise gaze too long in your direction for fear he blames you and proceeds to take your queen.
- Yes, you could just say in each row where the queen is with the byte.
Examples
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Anybody can sacrifice their queen, Josh.
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Bishop takes queen.
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Then can I put a queen here, here, here?
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Wow, this is the queen right here.
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Why did the computer move its queen or its virtual queen?
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White moves his queen and says, "Check!"
Fiction book (2001) -
If we put a black queen here, it attacks all the squares except these two.
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Capture the queen.
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Queen to king four.
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You can sacrifice the queen or the rook, but you're giving up something, and it's going to hurt.
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Idioms
Compounds
A bed or mattress size larger than a double and smaller than a king, about 60 by 80 inches
- Slur
An insulting name for a woman said to unfairly take government money, often used to express racist ideas
- Formal
The mother of the current king or queen who keeps the title after her child becomes ruler
A wild plant with many thin leaves and groups of small white flowers like a carrot that grows in fields
- Literature
A famous queen known for her wisdom and great wealth who visited King Solomon
- Specialized
A vertical support between the main roof beams that holds the middle of the roof
A woman who rules a country because the king cannot, often until the heir is old enough
- Specialized
A brightly colored tropical fish with a deep body and long spines on its top fin, often near coral reefs
A region of Antarctica claimed by Norway between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea
- Specialized
A larger female in a colony of naked mole rats who is the only one to have babies
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word queen for the chess piece is taken from the female ruler; it goes back to the old English cwen meaning 'woman', which is why the chess queen is the most powerful piece on the board.