What's the difference between death and tombstone?

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.

Tombstone


Definition:

  • (n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This supports the hypothesis that glial nodules unassociated with Toxoplasma tachyzoites may represent the tombstone of a Toxoplasma cyst.
  • (2) It's not hard to picture her, dodging the autograph-hunters, wisecracking at the tombstones, seizing life while she can.
  • (3) Might a leg, or an arm or a finger be sticking out from under Gaskell's smiling tombstone?
  • (4) The garment is emblazoned with a tombstone on which "Thatcher" is etched, with the slogan below reading "A generation of trade unionists will dance on Thatcher's grave."
  • (5) But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
  • (6) If he dies there, what should be engraved on his tombstone?
  • (7) I went to ask the local priest, who said they had taken the tombstones and crushed them for building materials or something like that.
  • (8) "I've told my comrade Trevor [Manuel, the planning minister], in my will, I leave very clear instructions when I pass, my obituary or tombstone – if anybody believes I deserve a tombstone – should say: 'Others made suggestions and he implemented.'"
  • (9) Some are inspirational, such as the grave of Philip Gould , the Labour strategist, who wanted his tombstone to be a gathering place where the living could meet and even commune with the dead.
  • (10) That three-word phrase, expressing a sincere hope that the dead will find peace in the afterlife, is a fitting inscription for a tombstone, and now a very popular hashtag on social media.
  • (11) Mandelson held up a Tory campaign poster featuring a tombstone, which attacked Labour's social care plan for the elderly, adding: "And by the way, don't give us any lectures about frightening, scaremongering advertisements.
  • (12) His film roles to date include starring alongside Liam Neeson in action movie A Walk Among the Tombstones and family adventure film Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.
  • (13) He spoke of “rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape”, the workers who had been “forgotten” and “left behind”, and promised they would be forgotten no more.
  • (14) Four men developed silicosis after sandblasting tombstones for an average of 35 months; 3 of them died an average of 59 months after their first exposure to sandblasting.
  • (15) A few days earlier I had spoken to Carmen Mercer, the group's vice president, who "started securing the border with a handful of patriotic Americans" in her home town of Tombstone.
  • (16) Allende equally jokily chimed in: "Young man, do you know what's going to be on my tombstone?"
  • (17) Hayes is a founder of the Cornerstone – dubbed Tombstone – group of socially conservative Tories which gave Cameron a significant boost in the 2005 leadership contest after backing him when he agreed to pull his party out of the centre-right EPP grouping in the European parliament.
  • (18) The television adverts had made it plain: the sexually active among us were headed for an early grave under a towering tombstone marked by those four letters.
  • (19) This came too late,” said Smajlovic, who lives alone in her home overlooking 7,000 white tombstones where the victims were buried.
  • (20) I find it eventually – there is a tableau vivant of tombstones and a pair of people dressed as Burma's president Thein Sein and David Cameron with outsize papier-mâché heads – but I'm distracted from stories of potential genocide by the activities of Stonewall and the London Gay Chorus who are also protesting, just yards away.

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