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Tombstone - What does it mean?

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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,

    Not English

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