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Ledger vs Tombstone - What's the difference?

ledger | tombstone |

As nouns the difference between ledger and tombstone

is that ledger is a book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records while tombstone is a headstone marking the person's grave.

As a verb 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.

ledger

English

(wikipedia ledger)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records.
  • (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
  • (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to the building.
  • A large flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.

    • Derived terms

    * ledger bait * ledger board * (l) * ledger wall

    Anagrams

    *

    See also

    * (wikipedia "ledger") *

    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,