What's the difference between gravedigger and undertaker?

Gravedigger


Definition:

  • (n.) A digger of graves.
  • (n.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Exiting the cemetery at the south gate (not the main gate) you enter Prospect Square and can finish the walk with a pint in John Kavanagh’s pub , known locally as the Gravediggers.
  • (2) The local gravedigger says he has already buried 1,000, and more bodies are found every day.
  • (3) She inveighs against the "gravediggers" of Brussels, whose austerity measures are held responsible for the scourge of mass unemployment and economic stagnation.
  • (4) He too had to put up with large swaths of the French left labelling him the Socialists’ gravedigger, because of his neoliberal reforms.
  • (5) Ebola: toilet cleaners, gravediggers and survivors tell their story – in pictures Read more It says DfID was too slow to respond to warnings from MSF and others because of its overreliance on the existing international public health system and its expectation that the WHO would act quickly.
  • (6) The hope had been if you take plasma from the recovered patient and transfuse a new patient with that plasma there would be significant effect, and this study shows there was not.” Ebola: toilet cleaners, gravediggers and survivors tell their story – in pictures Read more The trial group’s mortality rate was compared with that of more than 400 patients treated in the same centre in the five months previously.
  • (7) "Four in the past week, all young ones," says Ignacio Montes, 66, the gravedigger.
  • (8) The macabre minutes of the secretive "central contingencies unit" show that in the face of a strike by local authority gravediggers and crematorium staff, Whitehall officials considered bringing in private contractors to do the job but feared this could lead to "unseemly scenes at cemetery gates" involving union pickets.
  • (9) Peter Boudgoust, the director of the SWR, has been called a "cultural gravedigger" by the general secretary of the German music council, Christian Höppner, for what he called the "cultural political catastrophe".
  • (10) The files show that only 80 gravediggers were on strike in Liverpool and Tameside, Greater Manchester, in January 1979 as part of public sector strikes that contributed to the last days of James Callaghan's government, although the particular dispute later spread to other towns including Brighton and Hyndburn.
  • (11) She says everyone waits for the hour when the gravedigger arrives and there are new bodies to identify.
  • (12) The proceedings opened with our theme song, a light, melancholic melody played on accordion by its composer, No 7, a gravedigger from the Umbrian town of Gubbio, where Saint Francis tamed the wolves.

Undertaker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
  • (n.) One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.
  • (n.) Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
  • (3) Without that, and without undertaking big changes, the service's future may fall into doubt, he says.
  • (4) The performance of the instrument was evaluated by undertaking in vitro measurements of the reflectance spectra of blood.
  • (5) This work undertakes the study of changes in urinary, plasmatic and tissue levels of Thromboxane B2 (TXB2) as well as in tissue Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) after pancreas transplantation and the effect of superoxide dismutase (SOD) on these changes.
  • (6) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
  • (7) So far, there is little sign of similar hubris at the Human Brain Project, a far more complex undertaking, but perhaps for the moment Markram's ambition is precisely what is needed.
  • (8) This report describes how the difficulties were surmounted, and how the National Technical Centre then proceeded to undertake activities to extend awareness of the ICIDH.
  • (9) Since the regime was introduced, we have been undertaking work to ensure that senior manager responsibilities are properly allocated and understood in firms.
  • (10) The questions facing nursing now are not whether nurses should undertake this role, but how well do they provide information?
  • (11) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
  • (12) Additional reconstruction of the "donor" limb arteries and dilatation of the iliac artery improve circulation in the "donor limb", which makes it possible to undertake cross femoral-femoral shunting in patients with a high risk of aorto-femoral reconstruction in atherosclerotic affection of the "donor" limb.
  • (13) They were charged with undertaking acts in preparation or planning for a terrorist act.
  • (14) Despite the fact that this approach has several caveats, consistent results obtained in short-term studies would more readily justify the undertaking of a large-scale, long-term controlled study using colon cancer or adenomatous polyp recurrence as an endpoint.
  • (15) The chance discovery of an oesophageal localisation of Crohn's disease led the authors to undertake routine study of the oesophagus in their last 18 patients suffering from the disorder.
  • (16) Pedro is due in London on Wednesday to undertake a medical and discuss personal terms, with United having withdrawn their interest.
  • (17) Maybe this will be increasing the frequency of patrols, or going to places that the Obama administration has been hesitant to go – such as actually undertaking a non-innocent passage military patrols within 12 miles of an artificial island.
  • (18) He held out a hand to North Korea again, calling for it to denuclearise; and to Burma, if it undertakes democratic reform and frees political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
  • (19) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
  • (20) Prior to undertaking the exploration of phenomena in a research study with people from different cultures, certain elements must be addressed in order to bridge cultural and linguistic differences.

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