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Engraving vs Tombstone - What's the difference?

engraving | tombstone |

As nouns the difference between engraving and tombstone

is that engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it while tombstone is a headstone marking the person's grave.

As verbs the difference between engraving and tombstone

is that engraving is while tombstone is (surfing) for a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) because the surfer is underwater with his or her legrope pulled tight often this indicates a surfer in difficulty, either held down by the power of a wave or unconscious and unable to get to the surface.

engraving

English

Noun

(wikipedia engraving) (en noun)
  • The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
  • An engraved image.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
  • (music)  The art of drawing music notation at high quality, see .

    • Related terms

    * engrave * whittle * carve

    Verb

    (head)

    • tombstone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A headstone marking the person's grave.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
    • True, there's no harm in crying for one's husband, and the tombstone , though plain, was a solid piece of work, and on summer's days when the widow brought her boys to stand there one felt kindly towards her.
  • (mathematics) The symbol "" marking the end of a proof.

    • Synonyms

    * headstone, gravestone * (mathematics ) halmos

    See also

    * through-stone

    Verb

    (tombston)
  • (surfing) For a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) because the surfer is underwater with his or her legrope pulled tight. Often this indicates a surfer in difficulty, either held down by the power of a wave or unconscious and unable to get to the surface.
  • * 2005 , Bruce Jenkins, Surfer magazine, (referring to Kelly Slater) [http://surfermag.com/features/events/mav05/]:
    • Before the contest even started, Slater went down hard in a warmup session. He took a two-wave hold-down in the semifinals, his board tombstoning eerily for all to see,