Ledger vs Tombstone - What's the difference?
ledger | tombstone |
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.
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/]:
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)Derived terms
* ledger bait * ledger board * (l) * ledger wallAnagrams
*See also
* (wikipedia "ledger") *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,