What's the difference between cemetery and mortuary?

Cemetery


Definition:

  • (n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
  • (2) Finally, a postscript offers a parallel between the writings of Charles Dickens and the pauper cemetery.
  • (3) Pathological changes indicate that the cemetery contained individuals representing two slave occupational groups, house servants and laborers.
  • (4) The purpose of this paper is to present a Mediaeval skeleton of an approximately 16 year old boy, which was excavated at a Danish cemetery containing ca.
  • (5) By the afternoon of the day of the Smolensk catastrophe, the candles that were usually found in cemeteries on the margins of town had appeared en masse in public spaces in the heart of Warsaw.
  • (6) The family climbed in on either side and drove about a half mile up the road to a cemetery.
  • (7) Numerous authors have studied human cemetery remains with an eye toward identifying different socially stratified ethnic or kinship groups within the same population.
  • (8) Have you ever been to Arlington cemetery?” Khizr asked, a question that remains unanswered.
  • (9) Today, the man who famously claimed "I filled a cemetery all by myself".
  • (10) The cemetery is hidden among the rural woods and hills of Caroline County about 30 miles north of Richmond and contains only 47 graves in all.
  • (11) At least one neighbor was unaware the cemetery was even there.
  • (12) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
  • (13) A spokesman for the Danish Islamic Burial Fund objected to Hussein being buried at a cemetery run by his group.
  • (14) We made a mass prayers for the ten bodies and then buried them in Martyrs cemetery.
  • (15) Cemetery remains exposed through vandalism or natural phenomena are frequently brought to the attention of law enforcement agents or medical examiners.
  • (16) It is not clear if the cemetery's excavation was a warning signal from the guards to the government about a softeneing in its stance towards minorities.
  • (17) "Some people built tombs to steal archaeology, definitely," said 28-year-old Walid Ibrahim, picnicking on the boundary between the old and new cemeteries.
  • (18) I've steeled myself to ask her on what ground she wants to be buried, in which cemetery."
  • (19) Most of us who have lived in Canberra for any time have stood out there amid whipping winds or under a baking sun at the Australian capital's biggest cemetery.
  • (20) Eighteen pairs of mandible measures were evaluated according to sex on europide skulls coming from south-eastern Hungarian cemeteries of the X-XII., centuries in order to disclose possible measure differences between the left and right side.

Mortuary


Definition:

  • (a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
  • (a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.
  • (a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
  • (2) At this point in time our family is heartbroken, not able to grieve; his body is still in the mortuary all alone.
  • (3) By late morning, dozens more bloodied corpses had been brought to the town's tiny mortuary, where they lay three to four deep, some burned beyond recognition.
  • (4) In another trial, 1% 'Virkon' solution proved very effective in decontaminating mortuary tables.
  • (5) Standing in the forecourt of Cairo's Zeinhom mortuary, waiting to pick up the corpse of his friend, Amr Hussein could scarcely believe he was there.
  • (6) Maltese citizens were urged to send bouquets of flowers for the victims to the mortuary of Mater Dei hospital by the hospital’s chief executive, Ivan Falzon.
  • (7) The body was transferred to St Pancras mortuary, where the resident pathologist was Freddy Patel.
  • (8) The bodies of the three men were collected from the mortuary on Wednesday and taken to the Handsworth Islamic Centre.
  • (9) The records of 248 female homicides and suicides admitted to the Salt River State Mortuary between January 1990 and July 1991 were reviewed with specific attention to mode of death and blood alcohol concentration (BAC).
  • (10) Recommendations included improved privacy for families and friends; more sensitive body viewing, mortuary, autopsy and funeral arrangements; and better in-service education for staff and information giving for families.
  • (11) Occupational exposure was the probable cause of six hepatitis B infections (affecting haematology, biochemistry, and microbiology staff), three of tuberculosis (affecting mortuary and morbid anatomy workers), seven shigella, three salmonella (including one typhoid) and one pseudocholera infection (all in microbiology medical laboratory scientific officers), and a streptococcal infection in a mortuary technician.
  • (12) Postmortem examinations were carried out by two pathologists working at hospital and public mortuaries in west London.
  • (13) Amnesty researchers also witnessed emaciated corpses in mortuaries, and one former Giwa detainee told the organisation that around 300 people in his cell died after being denied water for two days: “Sometimes we drank people’s urine, but even the urine you at times could not get.” The conditions for prisoners in Giwa barracks and detention centres in Damaturu were allegedly so overcrowded that hundreds of detainees were packed into small cells where they had to take turns sleeping or even sitting on the floor.
  • (14) For the moment, though, Isis militants are killing about five or six people a day, the governor said, citing sources inside the city's mortuary.
  • (15) Brown adipose tissue was investigated in two cases of cot death in which core temperatures were above 40 degrees C on arrival at the mortuary.
  • (16) The mortuary table population could be a relation for vital potentials.
  • (17) This discovery constitutes the earliest solid evidence for intentional defleshing of a human ancestor and offers new research avenues for the investigation of early hominid mortuary practices.
  • (18) At the conclusion of mortuary ceremonies, the two sectors engage in competitive feasts in which the successful control of fertility is symbolized by the presentation of finished products of male vitality: yams and children, especially boys.
  • (19) The organisation also obtained evidence that in 2013, more than 4,700 bodies were brought to a mortuary from a detention facility in Giwa barracks.
  • (20) Their quality can surely be gauged by being the only people in the country who had not heard that Savile dated mortuary corpses, kerb-crawled in a camper van and was an enthusiastic nick-sniffer.