(n.) An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.
(n.) A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."
(v. t.) To commemorate by an epitaph.
(v. i.) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is hard to think of a better provisional epitaph than that supplied in the midst of his later troubles by Martin Palouš, one of the first signatories of Charter 77: "Havel was the man who was able to stage this miracle play.
(2) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
(3) And a telling line said by one character about Gustave's desire to recreate a bygone era could almost be Anderson's own epitaph: "His world had vanished long before he entered it.
(4) And then he came up with a flat rejection of any attempt to make sense of a 55-year long recording career that had transformed rock, and a line that could stand as his epitaph: "I am what I am, it is what it is.
(5) Uncritically decoding Benefits Street epitomises these dubious qualities, and perhaps this warning could stand as Hall's epitaph.
(6) The poem is structured like a lament, the soldiers' epitaphs interspersed with direct translations of Homer's extended similes, each of which is transcribed, lullingly, twice over.
(7) A few weeks ago our conversation came around to the question of epitaphs.
(8) And his epitaph: “I wouldn’t roll over and I didn’t go quietly.” • Still, Farage’s star continues its rise, as does that of former Guardianista Natalie Bennett .
(9) There are good reasons to be sceptical of the epitaphic impulse to declare “the end of nature”.
(10) Example and epitaph: "It is harder for many people to believe that God loves them than to believe that he exists."
(11) The inscription on Paracelsus' epitaph in the cemetery of Saint Sebastian in Salzburg is critically reviewed with regard to an allusion to Job, Chapter 19.
(12) • Journey into Fear, Uncommon Danger, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios and Epitaph for a Spy are all published by Penguin Modern Classics at £8.99 each.
(13) Do these people know what they're doing – they are inscribing Chinua's epitaph in the negative mode of thwarted expectations.
(14) The Scottish National party has already described the oil grab as Alexander's political epitaph, but what will worry him more is the lack of support from key cabinet allies and normally loyal Scottish Liberal Democrat MPs, such as Malcolm Bruce.
(15) I knew I had to rethink everything.” Joining the Royal Court in 1957, he made his London directing debut with NF Simpson ’s A Resounding Tinkle, and scored an early success with John Osborne ’s Epitaph for George Dillon, which transferred to Broadway.
(16) I don’t want my political epitaph to read that I just balanced the books and cleared up the mess I inherited.
(17) Worse still, it concluded, if Europe failed to surmount its economic crisis the prize would be a “risible memory, or worse, an epitaph for what Europe could have been, should have been.” 11.33am BST Aid donations My colleague Mark Tran, the Guardian's Global Development correspondent, has sent this as a counterpoint to the detractors: Something positive to say about the EU.
(18) One day, if they write an epitaph for me, I hope it will not say I was a triple-amputee, instead just say that Giles Duley was a photographer.
(19) From behind the keys of his supercharged typewriter, Ambler produced an astonishing four more novels in the next three years: Epitaph for a Spy, Cause for Alarm, The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear.
(20) "Then I went out on Sunday and got the Observer and there was their epitaph … I went to a friend's house and rang a friend and we were both crying on the phone saying 'what a dreadful, dreadful waste, what a dreadful thing'."
Phonograph
Definition:
(n.) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
(n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have recently developed a phonographic transducer which is compliance-matched to the maternal abdomen.
(2) 19 normal children were grouped into four age populations according to electroglotto- and phonographic analysis.
(3) The result of our study showed that alexia in Chinese ideographic language differs from alexia in western phonographic languages.
(4) Some practitioners were accused of Satanism by Christian pressure groups and conspiracy theorists, partly thanks to the popularity of occultist Aleister Crowley, who suggested in a 1913 book that would-be magicians train by listening “to phonograph records reversed”.
(5) Tony Wadsworth, former head of EMI and now chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, said: "It's not healthy to have a few large companies having all the hits."
(6) Copyright owners, largely represented by the Motion Picture Association and the British Phonographic Industry, support the act's attempt to crack down on piracy but have become discouraged at its protracted and slow progress.
(7) The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has yet to release a formal statement on its reported plans.
(8) Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry, which represents the music groups in the UK, said: "The high court today ruled that The Pirate Bay is illegal.
(9) Charges against the site, which allows web users to access music, movies and TV shows without paying for them and claimed 22 million users during February, were brought by a consortium of media, film and music companies led by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
(10) He said the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) was attacked on 19-20 September 2010, though the DDoS did not shut the site down.
(11) The Pirate Bay is not just a service that aggregates illegal torrents and points to filesharing sites and individuals, it is a politicised movement that delights in provoking the likes of the Motion Picture Association of America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
(12) The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK music industry trade body, said BT and TalkTalk's legal challenge against the act is "misconceived and will fail".
(13) Innovation in a digital economy is much more Pirate Bay than it is Phonographic Industry.
(14) The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) says only 2m SACDs were sold last year, compared to 1.7bn CDs.
(15) But Geoff Taylor, the chief executive of the British Phonographic Industry, the music trade body that lobbied on behalf of the act's anti-piracy measures, said: "The BPI continues to believe that measures to prevent access to illegal websites are essential if Britain's creative and technology sectors are to fulfil their growth potential.
(16) Pirate Bay logo John Kennedy, chairman and chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, said: "We're very pleased at the verdict of what was a very important case for us.
(17) From the phonographic analysis of the cardiac sounds with simultaneous recording of apexcardiogram or echocardiogram, the production mechanism of the diastolic click was discussed.
(18) Japan is the second biggest music market in the world after the US, with a 22% global share, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
(19) Our special recording system permitted exact phonographic registration of the verbal stimulus and reaction as well as of the PGR.
(20) The articulation-phonographic (oscillographic) method of registration based on the transformation of acoustic fluctuations into an electrical signal was used for the determination of a character and degree of speech disturbances following brain strokes.