tombstone

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtuːmstəʊn/    美 /ˈtuːmstoʊn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A grave marker, a stone slab or similar object marking a person's grave.
    — 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.
  2. The symbol "∎" marking the end of a proof.
  3. A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.
    — If you attempt to restore a backup that is older than the tombstone lifetime, it may introduce objects that were deleted […]
  4. A crashdump.
    — This actually results in a crash dump, which is written to the log and to a tombstone file.
  5. An unusual morphological feature on an electrocardiogram indicative of acute myocardial infarction, characterized by a massive ST elevation.
  6. A printed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, typically having unadorned centered text in black and white, enclosed in a simple box.
  7. A museum plaque or caption displaying information about a work of art or exhibited object.
    — 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.
  8. A pawnbroker's ticket. archaic,slang
    — "[…] 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.
动词 v.
  1. 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. UK,intransitive
  2. 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.
    — 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, […]
  3. To replace (an object or data) with a tombstone marker. transitive
    — One of the many improvements in Windows 2000 WINS (and NT4 SP4) is the capability to selectively delete or tombstone records.

词形变化

tombstones plural tomb-stone alternative,archaic tombstones present,singular,third-person tombstoning participle,present tombstoned participle,past tombstoned past tomb-stone alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
tombstone engineering tombstoner tombstoning
相关词
through-stone

词源

词源 1
From tomb + stone.
词源 2
From tomb + stone.
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