What's the difference between crossbones and death?
Crossbones
Definition:
(n. pl.) A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's part of a Brooklyn film-making collective, Waverley (heraldic crest: dagger, beer, skull and crossbones, neon green background), with whom he has made shorts and TV shows.
(2) With its wall-sized mural of a skull and crossbones and the slogan "Atlético Até a Morte" (Atlético Until Death), it was impossible not to notice the bar, which is the base of the torcedores organizados – or supporters' club – of Atletico Paranaense.
(3) Neil Cross has also gone Stateside, creating a new drama based on the life of the pirate Blackbeard, called Crossbones.
(4) No one knows if the two boys saw the skull and crossbones as they frantically clambered up the two-metre yellow wall.
(5) One of the army's most famous cap badges – a skull and crossbones, supported by the words "Or Glory" – could disappear as a result of the cuts.
(6) The chancellor, in a black skull and crossbones patterned snood at the royal family's favourite ski resort, was the perfect new year image of us all not being in it together.
(7) • Crossbones Garden, Redcross Way, SE1 Dr Matthew Green is a writer, historian and broadcaster and the author of London: A Travel Guide Through Time , published by Penguin on 18 June 2015.
(8) Complete with skull and crossbones, the mock label cherry picks data from a 180-page FDA analysis to suggest that the salmon are unsafe and unhealthy – just the opposite of what the FDA found .
(9) He had fun making the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean, up to a point, and still wears a chunky skull-and-crossbones ring from the film.
Death
Definition:
(v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
(v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
(v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
(v. i.) Cause of loss of life.
(v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
(v. i.) Danger of death.
(v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
(v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.
(v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(3) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
(4) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
(5) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(7) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(8) There was one complication (4.8%) from PCD (pneumothorax) and no deaths in this group.
(9) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(10) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(11) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(12) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(13) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(14) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
(15) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(16) There were no deaths attributable to the treatment.
(17) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(18) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(19) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
(20) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.