Tombstone vs Graveyard - What's the difference?
tombstone | graveyard |
A headstone marking the person's grave.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
(mathematics) The symbol "" marking the end of a proof.
(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/]:
A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
(figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
# (card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
# (sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
As nouns the difference between tombstone and graveyard
is that tombstone is a headstone marking the person's grave while graveyard is a tract of land in which the dead are buried.As a verb tombstone
is 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.tombstone
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Synonyms
* headstone, gravestone * (mathematics ) halmosSee also
* through-stoneVerb
(tombston)- 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,