Synonyms of the word

headstone

• n. A gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave.

gravestone

• n. A stone slab set at the head of a grave.

key

• n. An object designed to open and close a lock.
• n. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain…
• n. A crucial step or requirement.
• n. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
• n. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
• n. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly…
• n. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular…
• n. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a…
• n. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
• n. (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
• n. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple;…
• n. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
• n. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
• n. (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
• n. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
• n. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
• n. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw…
• n. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the…
• n. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
• n. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
• n. (masonry) A keystone.
• n. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
• n. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
• n. (heraldry) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.
• n. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or…
• adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
• adj. Important, salient.
• v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
• v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
• v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
• v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
• v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
• v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
• v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
• v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
• v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
• v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
• n. One of a string of small islands.
• n. Alternative form of quay.
• n. (slang) Clipping of kilogram. (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).

keystone

• n. (architecture) The top stone of an arch.
• n. Something on which other things depend for support.
• n. A native or resident of the American state of Pennsylvania.
• v. (transitive) To distort (an image) by projecting it onto a surface at an angle, which for example causes…

memorial

• n. A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.
• n. A service of remembrance or commemoration.
• n. (law) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal,…
• adj. Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
• adj. Contained in the memory.
• adj. Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

monument

• n. A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
• n. An important site owned by the community as a whole.
• n. An exceptional or proud achievement.
• n. An important burial vault or tomb.
• n. A legal document.
• n. A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).

stone

• n. (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
• n. A small piece of stone, a pebble.
• n. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
• n. (Britain, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals,…
• n. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp…
• n. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
• n. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon,…
• n. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
• n. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the…
• n. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
• n. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
• n. (obsolete) A testicle.
• n. (dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange…
• v. (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
• v. (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
• v. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive).
• v. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when…
• adj. Constructed of stone.
• adj. Having the appearance of stone.
• adj. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
• adj. (African American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
• adj. (LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
• adv. As a stone (used with following adjective).
• adv. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

tombstone

• n. A headstone marking the person's grave.
• n. (mathematics) The symbol "∎" marking the end of a proof.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To take part in tombstoning: to jump into the sea, etc. from a cliff or other…
• v. (surfing) For a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) because…