What's the difference between deceased and obituary?

Deceased


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Decease
  • (a.) Passed away; dead; gone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
  • (2) In the court of appeal, an agreement was arrived at between the widow of the deceased and the third-party insurance of the person responsible for the accident.
  • (3) When Jones was a governor, regular board meetings were held in which they could quiz management about editorial decisions ,as former chairman such as the now deceased Marmaduke Hussey regularly did.
  • (4) We describe the concurrence of severe distal osteolysis, mental retardation, short stature, and characteristic facial appearance with maxillary hypoplasia and relative exophthalmos in two adult sibs, a 57-year-old woman and her deceased brother.
  • (5) The DNA was extracted from paraffin-embedded brain tissue of two deceased patients, and from blood leukocytes of nine healthy persons at risk.
  • (6) The following cardiovascular lesions were operated: large aortopulmonary septal defects, localized just above the valvular rings in 2 patients with severe pulmonary hypertension, with very good effect in both; tetralogy of Fallot - in 2 babies, in one with good effect; congenital mitral obstruction with pulmonary hypertension in one case, with good effect; total anomalous pulmonary venous return of supracardiac type in one child, decreased 1 week following operation; type 1 complete transposition of great arteries in one baby, deceased one day following operation; large ventricular septal defects, with systemic or nearly systemic pulmonary hypertension in 5 children, in one with long-term good effect.
  • (7) She was found, deceased, after 30 days of being missing and nobody willing to take a report.” (O’Leary said she didn’t believe either case was related to trafficking.)
  • (8) The impact of early childhood loss, identification with the deceased, chronic grief, delayed grief, exaggerated or masked grief, and the death of a dream are discussed, and clinical examples are used to illustrate concepts of intervention.
  • (9) Decease (7 cases) should be explained by delay in diagnosis and therapy.
  • (10) For this kind of determination cases of deceased persons with damaged brain or cases with too high an absorbance did not prove suitable.
  • (11) When the remains were found, there was no idea who the deceased might be.
  • (12) The vast majority believe that the family should not be able to override the previously expressed wishes of their recently deceased loved one.
  • (13) Obama said he had contacted families of the deceased and indicated to them that the release was inappropriate.
  • (14) They had announced Thursday that "as a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased."
  • (15) In a story splashed across every major local newspaper, Rajab was accused of tweeting a photo that differed (albeit only slightly) from the official photo of the deceased released by the interior ministry.
  • (16) Overall mortality rates of parents of deceased diabetics were higher than those of the general population, reaching statistical significance in the age group 35-44 years (p less than 0.05).
  • (17) All the previous three patients are deceased, and this is the only known surviving patient.
  • (18) However, we have established that they were particulary numerous in the pituitary of six infants suddendly deceased.
  • (19) The disorder was, apparently, transmitted by the deceased father, who manifestly did not have an IGD deficiency nor any of the midline stigmata associated with IGD.
  • (20) Despite several attempts of cardiorespiratory resuscitation the patient deceased.

Obituary


Definition:

  • (n.) That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.
  • (n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
  • (2) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
  • (3) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday November 17 2007 The obituary below said that some of the uranium used in the Little Boy atom bomb was snatched from Soviet-occupied Germany in 1945 by an Anglo-American special unit.
  • (4) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
  • (5) To my generation, death was as remote as the obituary pages of the newspaper.
  • (6) Twitter meanwhile is preparing career obituaries for Onyewu.
  • (7) Last year's annual report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development should have been an obituary for the neoliberal model developed by Hayek and Friedman and their disciples.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jo Cox: ‘We’ve lost a great star’ – video obituary “Jo Cox was the most vivacious, personable, dynamic and committed friend you could ever have,” he said.
  • (9) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
  • (10) Your obituary of Michael Meacher (22 October) underplays his significant contribution to the promotion of genuinely green policies.
  • (11) · Henry Bernard Levin, journalist, born August 19, 1928; died August 7, 2004 Quentin Crewe died in 1998, and the above obituary has been revised.
  • (12) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
  • (13) I was first of the "extraordinary talent" Anthony Sampson (obituary, December 21) recruited for Drum magazine.
  • (14) Updated at 10.47pm GMT 10.24pm GMT The Guardian's David Beresford, who was appointed Johannesburg correspondent in 1984, has filed an obituary of Nelson Mandela.
  • (15) Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group and chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Climate Change "It's probably a bit too early to be writing the obituary of COP 16 just yet.
  • (16) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
  • (17) • Frankie Knuckles obituary • Frankie Knuckles - house pioneer and DJ - dies aged 59
  • (18) The following March, Milosevic was arrested on the orders of the liberal Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic, later to be assassinated ( obituary, March 13 2003 ).
  • (19) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.
  • (20) It was not until both Rothermere (obituary, September 3 1998) and his editor David English (obituary, June 11 1998) died within a short space of time that Dempster became inevitably less secure under the younger Lord Rothermere and Mail editor Paul Dacre.