What's the difference between crematorium and crematory?

Crematorium


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Crematory

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) He also made moronic statements like: "Books are central to the library experience" (to which I responded in a column: "This is like saying that death is central to the crematorium experience.").
  • (3) Lomax, a student who had never worked in a crematorium before, was one of those who volunteered to work at the crematorium.
  • (4) According to the Beijing News, the well-known Babaoshan crematorium will ban mourners from incinerating funeral clothes – a common sacrificial offering meant to keep the dead clothed in the afterlife – during the first two weeks of November.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brian Lomax, 26, says he volunteered to work at the crematorium to serve his country Photograph: Wade Williams Liberia was the country hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak, which has now claimed over 8,500 lives .
  • (6) People flocked to a crematorium where a private cremation will be held for a final glimpse of the cortege.
  • (7) A cemetery design competition in Oslo, meanwhile, gave special mention to one student’s design for a cemetery skyscraper that would reach hundreds of metres into the sky and include spaces for coffins, urns, a crematorium and a computerised memorial wall.
  • (8) He was hounded out of his community by neighbours who feared his work at the Margibi crematorium in Boys Town, Lower Margibi county, was helping to spread the disease rather than contain it.
  • (9) I was stationed near crematorium number four, and we witnessed the columns of unsuspecting women and children entering the gate of the crematorium; they would have been dead within half an hour.
  • (10) Archives at the crematorium only record that Turing was 41 and that his occupation was "university reader".
  • (11) The closest crematorium is a few hours away, closer to the city, but a very long trip for mourners.
  • (12) To do it yourself, contact the cemeteries and crematorium department of your local authority.
  • (13) So as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit (Apec) begins this week in the city, authorities have been scrambling to keep the air clean, temporarily restricting the operation of cars, factories, construction sites — and even crematoriums.
  • (14) The funeral is at 11.30am on Thursday at Mortlake Crematorium, Surrey.
  • (15) He called for the government “to secure and preserve the now-defunct crematorium for use as a shrine in memory of our fallen compatriots.
  • (16) Golders Green crematorium has seen it all in the century or so since it opened.
  • (17) The wicker coffin, draped in the flags of Great Britain and Brazil and an Arsenal scarf, and accompanied by an escort of Hell's Angels and the London Dixieland jazz band playing Just a Closer Walk with Thee, arrived at Golders Green crematorium in the midst of rain and storm.
  • (18) Then journalists, investigators, prosecutors, researchers, historians, theorists, documentary film-makers and generations of others took their turn, trying to find an appropriate response to the testimony of the survivors and the evidence of gas chambers, crematoriums, barracks for slaves, medical experiments and mass graves.
  • (19) Friends of Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, walked up a path to the crematorium, some holding hands or carrying flowers.
  • (20) They started training us on the method to carry out the cremation.” The process of cremation burns corpses, but the bones then have to be ground to a powder afterwards – a stage that was neglected in the Margibi crematorium.

Crematory


Definition:

  • (n.) A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As mortician and “good death” advocate Caitlin Doughty writes in her book, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory, America is seeing a sea-change in traditions and rituals surrounding mortality.
  • (2) Other groups have distributed in-house guides to the legal changes, and even hold funerals for members on their own premises rather than risk entrapping privately run crematories.

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