(n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sunday's remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall did not offer much in the way of opportunities for error.
(2) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
(3) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
(4) This year, as on every other anniversary, the names of survivors – the hibakusha – who died in the previous 12 months will be added to the peace park’s cenotaph.
(5) There was the Cenotaph resplendent, spotlessly clean.
(6) Kazuaki Naka, who organised the service at Koyasan temple, said more than 200 people had gathered at the cenotaph “to console the souls of war dead, who sacrificed their lives for their home country, whether their executions were fair or unfair”.
(7) Part of the problem is that Japan is reluctant to apologise for its own wartime atrocities, which makes it more difficult to demand an apology from someone else.” Mayor Matsui would not be drawn on the prospects of a visit by Obama or Kerry to the Hiroshima peace park, whose cenotaph contains the names of every person to have died in connection to the bombing.
(8) A secular campaigner has called for the Church of England to abandon its role in the annual Remembrance ceremony at the Cenotaph in London, claiming it no longer represents the views and beliefs of the majority of Britons.
(9) November 8, 2015 Grenville Wilson (@GBHeritage) Corbyn's bow at the Cenotaph was virtually nonexistent, more of a twitch, obviously a deliberate snub November 8, 2015 Others were quick to claim that the rightwing media and Conservative supporters had leaped on the footage to politicise the Remembrance Sunday service.
(10) A branch of McDonald's was attacked, a statue of Winston Churchill was given a grass Mohican, and the Cenotaph was graffitied.
(11) At the evening meeting of the parliamentary Labour party, Corbyn faced pointed calls to clarify his position on Europe, Nato, Trident and possible airstrikes in Syria – and even whether he would wear a white poppy at the Cenotaph.
(12) I looked out the window and saw a shooter, a man dressed all in black with a kerchief over his nose and mouth and something over his head as well, holding a rifle and shooting an honour guard in front of the cenotaph point-blank, twice,” a witness, Tony Zobl, told the Canadian Press news agency.
(13) The show has already proved controversial after LeBlanc and rally driver Ken Block were filmed doing “doughnuts” close to London’s Cenotaph.
(14) The Thiepval Memorial, the largest in the world and designed, like the Cenotaph in London, by Sir Edwin Lutyens, carries the names of 72,000 people killed but buried in unmarked graves.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Former president Jimmy Carter, pictured with Hiroshima mayor Takeshi Araki, places a wreath at the memorial cenotaph during a visit in 1984.
(16) Sinn Féin has previously boycotted November's remembrance events in Northern Ireland owing to the association with the British military, although past mayors have laid wreaths at the city hall cenotaph to mark the 1 July anniversary of the battle of the Somme.
(17) In November, the People’s History Museum in Manchester, home to an archive of Labour party history, made tentative inquiries into acquiring the Ed Stone for its collection – which includes the coat Michael Foot wore at the cenotaph in 1981 – but those they spoke to in the party denied any knowledge of the monument’s fate.
(18) Top Gear: Chris Evans says Cenotaph stunt should not be broadcast Read more The clip also features former Friends star LeBlanc driving a Reliant three-wheeler from London to Blackpool and a Dodge Viper ACR with a Browning machine-gun attached to its roof being driven at a military base in Nevada.
(19) The Irish government has been asked to lay a wreath at London’s Cenotaph on Remembrance Day for the first time.
(20) But then how would we feel if Moscow or Singapore or Tehran condemned the treatment of Cenotaph protesters?
Dead
Definition:
(a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
(a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
(a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
(a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
(a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
(a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
(a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
(a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
(a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
(a.) Bringing death; deadly.
(a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
(a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
(a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
(a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
(a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
(adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
(n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
(n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
(v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
(v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of dead from the bombing has been put at up to 1,654.
(2) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
(3) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(4) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
(5) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(6) Pathologic examination demonstrates calcifications in the dead collagen that makes up catgut suture.
(7) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(8) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(9) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(10) No names of the dead or injured have been published.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
(13) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(14) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
(15) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(16) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(17) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
(18) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
(19) necrobiotic and dead cells, cell debris and phagosomes appear electively fluorescent.
(20) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.