(n.) The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.
(n.) The stone at the head of a grave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
(2) Today there is only the headstone, inscribed with an Islamic star and crescent, standing among dozens of Christian crosses of other veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in the cemetery’s section 60, the plot called “the saddest acre in America”.
(3) His grave lies in Arlington national cemetery , where silent rows of headstones on rolling hills mark the final resting place for more than 400,000 service members, veterans and their families stretching back to the civil war.
(4) Before 2008, she and her husband ran a 100-year-old family business making headstones.
(5) Photograph: Andrew Fox Harkamel Sahota used her second loan from My Home Finance to cover part of the cost of her son's headstone.
(6) When discretionary costs such as probate, headstones and flowers are added, the total cost of dying has risen faster than inflation and now stands at £7,622 – an increase of 7.1% on 2012.
(7) Israel is waiting for you with open arms.” But the French prime minister, Manuel Valls – who was speaking after several hundred Jewish headstones were vandalised at a cemetery in eastern France – said that he regretted Netanyahu’s call, noting that the Israeli prime minister was “in the midst of a general election campaign”.
(8) Casestudy: The single mother who borrowed for her baby's headstone Harkamel Sahota applying for a loan.
(9) I wish I’d spent more time at the office” are words few would carve on their headstones • Andrew Simms is author of Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity, published by Little Brown at £13.99 on 28 February.
(10) Thousands of precisely trimmed rose and rosemary bushes, plaques and headstones are set in an ocean of lawn, surrounding a constantly exhaling redbrick crematorium.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Headstones on the graves of children who died from the Ebola virus at a cemetery for victims in Waterloo, south of the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown.
(12) But Jackamoe Buzzell, a fan of the show who organised the event, complete with real headstone and a fleet of black limousines, was undeterred.
(13) "Each one of them deserves a headstone with his name on it," she said.
(14) Harry Collett got so tired of being asked the same question that he had a stonemason make up a false headstone – and had it placed at a suitable location on his walk.
(15) The Telegraph opted for the most funereal of all front pages choosing a headstone-style front page with a full length photograph of Thatcher on a black background and the simple headline "Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013".
(16) The names on the headstones were written in chalk and some had been washed away.
(17) A headstone in the flooded graveyard in Moorland, Somerset.
(18) The headstone is as humble as Maclean's – intentionally humble ("He trusted in God and tried to do the right") with a bronze plaque nearby advertising its humility by pointing out that it no way differs from the hundreds of thousands of other headstones "placed in many lands over his comrades who fell in the Great War".
(19) Her father is buried nearby; white butterflies flutter among the Islamic headstones; a light breeze blows.
(20) Fresh flowers appeared this week at the simple marble headstone of Humayun Khan, an American Muslim killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004.
Stone
Definition:
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
(3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
(5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
(6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
(8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
(9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
(11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
(16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
(17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
(18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.