What's the difference between gravestone and inscription?

Gravestone


Definition:

  • (n.) A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the gravestone of this debate has Libya marked on it.
  • (2) What more proof could I show my children of their belonging, their rootedness here than their family name on a gravestone?
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Another participant in the show is Brian Andrew Whiteley with The Legacy Stone, also known as the Trump gravestone that mysteriously appeared one day in March in Central Park .
  • (4) We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” I tell Gabrielle that I once interviewed Oscar Wilde’s grandson , who was pleading with admirers not to cover his grandfather’s tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris, with lipstick kisses because it was damaging the stone.
  • (5) He was shocked to the core when Savile's family announced that they would remove the disgraced DJ's gravestone in Scarborough "out of respect for public opinion".
  • (6) Teach-ins were held to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership and sad clowns performed in a theater performance surrounded by gravestones for “justice”, “democracy” and “truth”.
  • (7) Jail Corbett and send Barker's gravestone to landfill.
  • (8) Evidences of this exceptional event are notations in the birth and death registers of the town parish church in Lommatzsch, a letter reporting on the "unusual event" to the elector Johann Georg III (1600-1691) and the so-called five-children gravestone.
  • (9) But there are no gravestones, there are no markers.
  • (10) Fay says it has been very hard for her and her siblings to not have a focus for their grief and "perhaps the drawings are the gravestones, where I can lay the flowers".
  • (11) Meanwhile, 15 gravestones in a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem were vandalised, with "death to Arabs" painted across them in what was thought to be a "price tag" attack by Jewish extremists.
  • (12) Coming unexpectedly across a work by Gill - a carved font in a rarely opened church, a gravestone in a rural cemetery, moss creeping in between the precision-cut Gill letters - is an odd and hauntingly intense experience.
  • (13) Asked in 1999 what she would like to see written on her gravestone, Taylor replied: "Here lies Elizabeth.
  • (14) From her bedroom window, she can see the gravestone of her baby daughter, who died soon after being after being born, not long after they moved in.
  • (15) Every major political party is now complicit in fees and privatisation in universities, and if there was only one impact of the growth of the student movement in the past few years, it has been that your betrayal of education and your fire sale of public services will be written on your political gravestone in 2015.
  • (16) Indeed, the last Labour election effort featured an unlikely puppet character called Ed, who wrote his thoughts in big letters on a semi-portable gravestone .
  • (17) He had already published a book about churchyard gravestones, A Fine and Private Place (with Joan Bakewell, 1977), and an entertaining account of his quest for Diaghilev, Speaking of Diaghilev (1997), based on the earlier documentary.
  • (18) But Ball insisted the pair had laughed it off, saying: “He [Cook] has always said he wants his gravestone to read: ‘Norman was a very patient man.’ And that sums it up really.” After the picture emerged, she said they had a “good understanding of each other” and said the reasons they met and fell in love initially were still there.
  • (19) We had paparazzi clambering over gravestones while we were filming the funeral.
  • (20) Will bungling or beastly be chiselled first on this government's gravestone?

Inscription


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of inscribing.
  • (n.) That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.
  • (n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.
  • (n.) An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is still difficult to apply for material reasons such as the small number of physiotherapists and the lack of inscription in the Social Security nomenclature.
  • (2) When we read ‘Donetsk’ on signs, when we stopped in the city and saw the inscription ‘DNR’.
  • (3) They included a 7th-century BC Assyrian inscription that, she discovered, had been mistranslated in the 1920s, reducing passages to "absolute nonsense".
  • (4) The two current criteria for diagnosis of left anterior fascicular block (LAFB) were evaluated; they are marked left axis deviation (LAD) and a delay in the time of inscription of the intrinsicoid deflection (ID) in lead aVL asynchronous to V6.
  • (5) Twelve patients underwent transplantation after external circulatory assistance (13%), 11 patients after inscription on the list of extreme emergencies, and 68 on an elective basis (74%).
  • (6) ), that is to say the inscription of the inconscious, particularly reported to the body and to the look.
  • (7) One female mummy is displayed with a translation of an offering inscription, which visitors will be invited to recite to ensure her food supply in the next world.
  • (8) In all nine, recording the precordial leads one intercostal space below the usual space eliminated the RBBB pattern in V1-V2 and resulted in inscription of a QS complex, whereas recording the leads one space higher than usual enhanced the height of the R wave.
  • (9) Almost every dedicatory inscription associated with public works--palaces, temples, etc.--expressed the importance of these kings' participation in what this writer terms a "family cult."
  • (10) He certainly seems to have exploited his firman or licence from the Sultan to remove "stones with inscriptions and figures" from the building with an enthusiasm that did not escape the critical notice of contemporary observers .
  • (11) You can sense his relief in the inscription above the gatehouse: "This worke 25 yards long was wholly built by Edw: N: Esq: Ano.
  • (12) The World Heritage Committee has previously changed the boundaries of protected sites, but it has stated its surprise at the Coalition’s stance on Tasmania’s forests given the short time since its inscription.
  • (13) Biventer cervicis (BC) is an anatomically complex muscle that is divided by tendinous inscriptions into five in-series compartments of motor units.
  • (14) Bipolar atrial electrograms were recorded from selected sites during threshold pacing from sites low on the right side of the atrial septum which when paced resulted in the inscription of either negative or positive P waves in electrocardiograph leads II, III, and aVF.
  • (15) The second mummy was a 18-year-old young woman, 800-700 b. C. From the inscriptions on the sarcophagus name, family and living circumstances could be found.
  • (16) Taylor hopes even more secrets will be revealed in years to come, including being able to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects inside the mummies.
  • (17) However, during the inscription of positive retrograde P waves in man, activation occurs rapidly up the interatrial septum (we believe via the anterior internodal pathway) to Bachmann's bundle, from where it then spreads in a manner similar to that which occurs during normal sinus rhythm.
  • (18) As an expression of the systemic hemodynamic alteration, the decrease in time of inscription of the intrinsecoid deflection, of the left ventricle in V6 became evident when the mitral area diminished or by increase of mean pressure of the pulmonary artery.
  • (19) It's made me return to my meagre merchandise collection – a prop newspaper from III, a replica hoverboarding helmet from II (which came pre-autographed by the actor Thomas F Wilson , with the inscription "Biff to the Future!
  • (20) The cuffs are filled via different inlets clearly distinguished by color as well as by the inscriptions "proximal" and "distal".