(n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
(n.) A kind of burial case.
(n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed
(n.) The body.
(n.) The tomb.
(n.) A book of selections.
(n.) A gasket. See Gasket.
(v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
(2) The military arrived with a casket to collect Mandela's body at about midnight so it could be taken to a military hospital in the capital, Pretoria, where it will lie in state this week .
(3) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
(4) The images showed mourners, including Liu Xia, gathered beside a casket that was ringed by pots of white chrysanthemums.
(5) Pictures of the funeral show her bowed over her husband's casket, stricken with grief.
(6) The casket containing Havel's body was being transported from the Prague Crossroads, a former church turned by Havel into a cultural centre, to the Prague castle, the seat of the presidency, where it will be on display until Friday's state funeral.
(7) When the private service ended, House Speaker Paul Ryan bowed his head at the casket, made the sign of the cross and clasped his hands in prayer for about a minute.
(8) At the church, a large bouquet of red roses and a St Louis Cardinals baseball cap adorned Brown’s closed casket.
(9) The pen is being sold together with two silver caskets, one of which was presented to Lord Carson on Ulster Day to mark the occasion, the other having been a gift by Unionists to Lady Carson in 1914, to mark their wedding anniversary.
(10) Rain fell softly on Eric Garner’s white casket as it was loaded into a hearse that would drive the 43-year-old father, who died after a New York police officer put him in a chokehold , to his final resting place following an emotional funeral on Wednesday night.
(11) While an increasing number opt of people for “green burials” – which tend to involve burials in meadow and woodland sites, in biodegradable shrouds or caskets made of anything from cardboard to banana leaf – others ponder the role cemeteries play in our cities, and what it would mean if we lost them altogether.
(12) A lone trumpeter played the Last Post as troops in dress uniform saluted then carried the wooden caskets to a row of hearses.
(13) The casket will be on display at the 15th century Vladislav hall until the funeral on Friday.
(14) Others were seen throwing flowers on the casket, also wrapped in the Iraqi flag.
(15) After the prayers, Davis led mourners in taking turns to pay their respects, standing quietly by her mother’s casket.
(16) An Iraqi flag draped over her shoulder, his mother led the mourners carrying his wooden casket and pounding their chests in grief.
(17) And then a few days later, I was there greeting the caskets coming into Andrews Air Force Base and grieving with the families.
(18) The archives of the Robert Koch Institute include a casket with preparations and handwritten notes by Robert Koch (Fig.
(19) WB I remember vividly the photographs in Jet magazine of Emmett Till in his casket in 1955.
(20) The grieving paused Friday in front of Sterling’s open casket, which was adorned with music notes and a smiling photo of the man.
Gasket
Definition:
(n.) A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
(n.) The plaited hemp used for packing a piston, as of the steam engine and its pumps.
(n.) Any ring or washer of packing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The investigation was carried out in an asbestos plant producing yarn, cords, gaskets and frictional products.
(2) Hyperchlorination, raising hot water temperatures to greater than 55 degrees C, and replacing rubber gaskets are useful methods for controlling outbreaks of legionellosis traced to potable water systems but are not yet justified as routine preventative methods in the absence of such an outbreak.
(3) The chamber consists of two glass microscope slides suitably prepared for cell growth and a gasket of silicone rubber.
(4) The size of the power device is 1 cm3; it may be inserted into the injector, which then does not need a gasket any more.
(5) For a variety of baby foods there was no significant difference in ESBO levels between foods packaged in glass jars with PVC gaskets and foods in cans containing ESBO in the can lacquer.
(6) The use of plastic or Parafilm gaskets for dry mounting was developed to facilitate the handling and examination of the stained cover slip preparations.
(7) The total efficiency could be up to 25 percent by improving the gasket to reduce the frictional force.
(8) The LCM uses a carbonated antacid tablet, a plastic bag with tap water, a candle, and a wide-mouthed glass jar provided with a tight-fitting metallic screw cap and a rubber gasket.
(9) Investigations carried out in a period in which rigors were particularly common showed the source of bacteria to be parts of the gasket system of the Kiil dialyser, areas that are inaccessible to disinfectants.
(10) Because the several components of syringes, (such as barrels, gasket seals, etc.)
(11) It has been determined that the deodorant capacity of the above gaskets is more than two times higher than that of its "washer filter" analog manufactured by the foreign "Coloplast" company.
(12) The specimen rod is supported on two rubber gaskets for vibration isolation, and motorized precision micrometers with encoder readouts for position monitoring drive the motions.
(13) Solutions were straightforward, involving gasket changes and o-ring resizing.
(14) Therefore rubber D-51A can be recommended to be used as pump gaskets.
(15) Previous studies have indicated that leaching of organic materials from rubber gaskets may have cytotoxic effects.
(16) Within 2 d, fully confluent monolayers form, and ZO-1 localizes in a continuous gasket-like fashion circumscribing all cells.
(17) If you loved the late-1990s PC version and would blow a gasket at its conversion into a Zynga-style game with in-app purchases, avoid this remake.
(18) Several studies on potential migrants from packaging materials, such as heat-seal adhesives, amber polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers, and rubber gaskets of aerosol valves, are presented to show that commonly encountered questions with regard to packaging materials used during product stability studies can also be answered in the same way.
(19) During August 1987, a large and concentrated infestation of Aedes albopictus was discovered on the property of a tire recapper and gasket manufacturer in Chicago, IL, in a densely populated urban environment.
(20) It was shown that the fractal dimensions measured by using the image analyzers for three curves (straight line, Koch curve, and Sierpinski gasket) were deviated by less than 2.1% from the theoretical dimension.