English

Pronunciation

• An audio transcript can be found at En-us-tombstone.ogg

Noun

Image:A04 1705.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Tombstone, [[w:Camp Butler National Cemetery|Camp Butler National Cemetery'>1]

1. A headstone marking the person's grave.
2. The symbol "" (Unicode U+220E, "END OF PROOF") marking the end of a proof.

Synonyms

• (mathematics) halmos

Translations

• Finnish: hautakivi
• French: pierre tombale
• German: Grabstein m.
• Greek: ταφόπλακα (tafóplaka)

• Portuguese: lápide

See also

• through-stone

Verb

1. 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.
2. : 2005: 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, — Bruce Jenkins, Surfer magazine, 2005 (referring to Kelly Slater) 2

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