(n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
(n.) A basket.
(n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
(n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
(n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
(2) His website sells direct to the public, with prices starting from £245 for a plain cardboard coffin, as well as offering a comparison service.
(3) Harry also spoke about walking behind his mother’s coffin as a 12-year-old and said no child “should be asked to do that under any circumstances”.
(4) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(5) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
(6) At the end of the ceremony, Havel's coffin was to be carried through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral.
(7) About 60 coffins were expected, although the number was not immediately confirmed.
(8) The attack in Peshawar is yet another nail in Pakistan’s coffin, cynical residents and pundits alike will tell you today.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People carry the coffin of Giulio Regeni during his funeral in Fiumicello, northern Italy, on 12 February.
(10) Another man, placed in what he called "the electric coffin" – in which a detainee is forced to lie inside a wooden box, across two metal plates through which they pass a current.
(11) "Each decade," he continued, "we shiftily declare we have buried class; each decade the coffin stays empty."
(12) The board’s chief executive, Peter Deague, told Guardian Australia that meant they could cater to anyone who weighed up to 250kg, as a coffin for a person of that size usually weighed about 100kg.
(13) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
(14) He was still able to have a good conversation with me.” The PSNI is also investigating the firing of shots by the New IRA over the coffin of a veteran west Belfast republican on Sunday night.
(15) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
(16) The final nail in social security's coffin came with the demise of the Department of Social Security in 2001 and its replacement by the Department for Work and Pensions.
(17) In some establishments, mournful dirges played while coffins were carried through the crowds of drinkers; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe.
(18) If you want a coffin, alternatives to the regular chipboard, veneered box are now mainstream and in all good undertakers’ catalogues.
(19) This study ought to be the final nail in the coffin of techno-libertarianism.
(20) There is no formation of callus at the site of the fracture, but only a firm formation of fibrous tissue which does not bother the horse unless the fragments are too much dislocated giving rise to a greater destruction of the coffin joint.
Oblong
Definition:
(a.) Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.
(n.) A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.
Example Sentences:
(1) These neurons were generally oblong and measured 60-80 microns.
(2) The combination of 150 mcg clonidine and 2.5 mg cyclothiazide (Dimapres) in the form of a scored oblong sugar-coated tablet seems to satisfy these demands best and to be an optimal combination of clonidine and cyclothiazide.
(3) Four types of trophoblast cells are seen in mouse ectoplacental cone on day 8 of the pregnancy: (1) trophoblast-1 at the base of the cone are polyhedral, compactly arranged and contain large nucleoli, (2) trophoblast-2 in the middle of the cone enclose several heterolysosomes, erythro-and leucophagosomes, (3) trophoblast-3, also in the middle, have several membrane-bound osmiophilic granules, (4) trophoblast-4 at the periphery of the cone are oblong and enclose many pleomorphic bodies.
(4) Morphologic analysis of thalamically projecting LCN cells showed that they were smaller in size, and more oblong in shape in caudal regions of the nucleus.
(5) The presynaptic active zones at the SVB C synapse are discrete, and macular or oblong.
(6) Some morphological characteristics could apparently be related to specific modes of locomotion, namely the shape, more or less oblong, pear-like or round, according to genera or digits, and the possible fusion of the 2 sesamoid bones of the same digit to form a unique ossified structure.
(7) The mouth, an oblong slit like a tiny letterbox, conveys alarm.
(8) Eight healthy male volunteers took part in this study to determine the relative bioavailability of Treuphadol oblong tablets (500 mg paracetamol), Treuphadol Plus oblong tablets (500 mg paracetamol, 30 mg codeine phosphate) and Treuphadol suppositories (750 mg paracetamol) against commercial tablets (500 mg paracetamol).
(9) We show that the cytoplasmic surface of outer nuclear membrane is covered by numerous large, oblong "kernel-like" globular particles (30-35 nm length, 25-30 nm width), often aligned into curved chains or grouped into clusters.
(10) The mitochondria, small and round on days 12, 13 and 14, become oblong from day 18 of gestation.
(11) One protomer has an oblong shape, whereas the other with higher density has a head and a hook region.
(12) A description is given of the rare occurrence of peculiar oblong structures having a maximal length of about 4.5 micron and a width of 0.5 micron, in the visceral epithelial cells of human glomeruli.
(13) Treatment with Al led to the development, in the cytoplasm of certain root tip cells, of two oblong hyaline structures formed by material extruded from the nucleus.
(14) Gametocytes are round to oblong, measuring 6 by 5 mu, and the pigment in microgametocytes occurs in a single peripheral vacuole.
(15) The fields are rounded, oblong, or elongated, but gradations between categories are common.
(16) Necropsy of both groups of calves revealed a circular to oblong lesion that was congested, edematous, and firm, and which occupied 20% to 100% of the right caudal lung lobe and involved the remaining lung lobes to a more minor degree.
(17) Following intravitreal injections, retrograde transport of the enzyme was observed bilaterally, but predominantly contralaterally, in a large oblong field of cells at the isthmic level of the midbrain, bounded medially by the trochlear nucleus and laterally by the nucleus isthmi.
(18) In profile these granules appear oblong or circular with average dimensions of 170 x 50 nm.
(19) Of 57 aspergillomas 47 were round or oval, 7 oblong, 2 polypoidal and 1 lobulated.
(20) Sporozoites each possess an oblong refractile body at 1 end and appear packed together randomly and enclosed in a membrane along with a spheroid residuum composed of fine, uniform granules.