(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'."
Rip
Definition:
(n.) A wicker fish basket.
(v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
(v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
(v. t.) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
(n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
(n.) A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
(n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(2) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
(3) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
(4) Instead he ripped out the phone, left the couple and fled empty-handed with his accomplices.
(5) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(6) The distribution of derepression among castrated recombinant inbred strains (9 X A) indicated a close link of a locus repressing I-P-450(16 alpha) in male mice to the Rip locus on chromosome 7.
(7) It rips at our souls every single time we look the results,” said Winters, who was paid $12.8m, including a $10m buy-out award .
(8) Conformation of the renin inhibitor peptide, Pro-His-Pro-Phe-His-Phe-Phe-Val-Tyr-Lys (RIP) has been studied in aqueous solution and in lipid bilayers using 500 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy.
(9) In chronic liver disease the frequency of HBAg with the RIP method was 83.3% in chronic persistent hepatitis, 42.8% in chronic aggressive hepatitis, 23% in cryptogenic cirrhosis and 16.6% in alcoholic cirrhosis.
(10) The former is an RNAase, whereas RIPs are N-glycosidases.
(11) Using interferon in the pretreatment sample as a measure of RIP concentration, a semilog plot of the pretreatment interferon titer and interferon subsequently produced, resulted in an approximately linear relationship between 10 and 100 units of interferon in the pretreatment sample.
(12) Clubs got into a mess partly because rich people, who knew nothing about football, put money in - and they got ripped off."
(13) Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are a group of proteins that inhibit protein synthesis in eucaryotic cells.
(14) Response The DfE ripped up the first draft, replacing it with technology-based programme that includes 3-D printers in secondary classrooms, while primary school pupils will design and test structures and circuits.
(15) These results demonstrate that the RIP phenomenon can be a source of new functional alleles.
(16) "Around 2009, when Twilight was huge and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were wearing ripped jeans, that look was big, though it wasn't really from the catwalk," he said.
(17) Toward this goal performance in two 30-min rapid information processing (RIP) trials separated by a 10-min smoking period was compared among preselected high and low CO absorbing smokers, nonsmokers, and smokers not allowed to smoke (n = 12 per group).
(18) Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said: "The Lords today have ripped the heart out of this deeply flawed flagship bill.
(19) In 10 patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome, we studied the effects on respiratory system mechanics of two levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), best PEEP (BP) and half of this value (HBP), using a respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP) combined with a super syringe.
(20) The regulator, Monitor, is partly constrained from letting competition rip.