What's the difference between funeral and viewing?

Funeral


Definition:

  • (n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural.
  • (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.
  • (n.) A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
  • (2) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
  • (3) Nepalese workers building stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been denied leave to attend funerals or visit relatives following the earthquakes in the Himalayan country that have killed more than 8,000 people, its government has revealed.
  • (4) The early evening clashes brought a dramatic end to a day that had started off with three large funeral rallies through the suburbs of Manama.
  • (5) A Benn family spokesperson said: "At the suggestion of the Speaker of the House of Commons and by agreement with the Lords Speaker, Black Rod and the dean of Westminster Abbey, an approach was made by Black Rod to the palace for agreement that Mr Benn's body rest in the chapel of St Mary Undercroft on the night before his funeral.
  • (6) Earlier this month, a private funeral took place for Nancy Lanza, the gunman's mother and the first of his 27 victims.
  • (7) Similar scenes of remembrance played out across the country – in a show of emotion not seen since the 1937 funeral of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first president after the nation was founded in 1918.
  • (8) The lossmaking chain of supermarkets, funeral homes and pharmacies said in a terse two-line statement that Stuart Ramsay had left the board with immediate effect after "an independent report, and at the request of the board".
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man and children in Lahore at the funeral of a family member killed in the blast.
  • (10) At Mabhouh's funeral, near Damascus, the Hamas leader Khalid Meshal blamed Israel for the killing, promising revenge and declaring an "open war".
  • (11) More than 200 people attended the East End-style funeral, complete with a horse-drawn hearse.
  • (12) "He was just a child," said Eray, 18, a student who joined the funeral procession.
  • (13) The cost of  dying is rising faster than the cost of living: the average funeral now runs at £3,551.
  • (14) There is agreement among most left-wing and anti-capitalist campaigners that the demonstration before the funeral will be smaller than Saturday night's party.
  • (15) Twitter has become pivotal in organising anti-government dissent in the past year: the Occupy Gezi movement, which marches against the recently passed internet censorship bill that allows the government to block any content within four hours without a court order, and the massive street protest and the funeral attended by hundreds of thousands after the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan , were initiated via social media.
  • (16) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
  • (17) They had come from across Israel to see Eyal Yifrach, 19, and Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frankel, both 16, buried side by side after funeral services at synagogues in each of their home communities.
  • (18) Fitch also raised concerns that it could lose customers after the intervention of hedge funds, which are forcing the mutual Co-op Group of funeral homes, supermarkets and pharmacies to cede control of the bank.
  • (19) The breakdown in talks between Barclays and Lehman came after government officials and senior Wall Street executives gathered for a third day at the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, in lower Manhattan, arriving in a funereal procession of black limos.
  • (20) After her husband’s death she carefully arranged the stirrups of the horse that accompanied his funeral procession.

Viewing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of View

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (2) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (3) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
  • (4) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
  • (5) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
  • (6) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
  • (7) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
  • (8) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (9) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
  • (10) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
  • (11) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
  • (12) Further analysis of the role of sex steroid hormones is required in view of the sex variations reported.
  • (13) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
  • (14) 83 well documented cases of amoebic hepatic abscess, treated in the Philippines between 1967 and 1975, are presented with a view to showing the results of 3 different methods of management and comparing the diagnostic accuracy and overall mortality in 2 separate groups.
  • (15) In this article it is outlined the medical biopsychosocial approach with particular emphasis on the family viewed as the primary health care agency.
  • (16) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (17) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
  • (18) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
  • (19) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
  • (20) My father has never met him but has a different view.

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