tombstone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
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Etymology: From tomb + stone.
Compound parts: tomb
stone
Inflected forms:
form: tombstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tomb-stone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: tombstones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tombstoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tombstoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tombstoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tomb-stone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A grave marker, a stone slab or similar object marking a person's grave.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The symbol "∎" marking the end of a proof.
pos: noun
gloss: A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.
pos: noun
examples: If you attempt to restore a backup that is older than the tombstone lifetime, it may introduce objects that were deleted […]
gloss: A crashdump.
pos: noun
examples: This actually results in a crash dump, which is written to the log and to a tombstone file.
gloss: An unusual morphological feature on an electrocardiogram indicative of acute myocardial infarction, characterized by a massive ST elevation.
pos: noun
gloss: A printed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, typically having unadorned centered text in black and white, enclosed in a simple box.
pos: noun
gloss: A museum plaque or caption displaying information about a work of art or exhibited object.
pos: noun
examples: The last bit of information on each tombstone is an accession number—an alphanumeric block that is assigned when an object is added (accessioned) to the museums’ collections.
gloss: A pawnbroker's ticket.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
examples: "[…] Pity we're not both same size, or I'd steal one of your shirts, for I buried the last of mine yesterday, and here's the tombstone," producing a pawnbroker's duplicate.
gloss: To take part in tombstoning: to jump into the sea, etc. from a cliff or other high point so as to enter the water vertically straight.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: 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, […]
gloss: To replace (an object or data) with a tombstone marker.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One of the many improvements in Windows 2000 WINS (and NT4 SP4) is the capability to selectively delete or tombstone records.
Related words: through-stone
Derived words: tombstone engineering
tombstoner
tombstoning
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