Definizione monolingua

grave

grave (third-person singular simple present graves, present participle graving, simple past graved or grove, past participle graved or graven)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Ps. VII 16 (Book of Prayer).

     He hath graven and digged up a pit.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Ex. XXVIII.,9.

     Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Stevenson, Requiem

     This be the verse you grave for me / ""Here he lies where he longs to be""

3. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Chaucer.

     With gold men may the hearte grave.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Prior.

     O! may they graven in thy heart remain.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Shakespeare

     Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.

6. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessels bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

grave (plural graves)

1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
   • (Can we date this quote?), John XI, 17.

     He had lain in the grave four days.

   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.

2. death, destruction.

grave (comparative graver, superlative gravest)

1. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.7:

     An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.

2. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre. [from 16th c.]
3. Low in pitch, tone etc. [from 17th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) Moore (Encyc. of Music).

     The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.

4. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. [from 19th c.]

grave

1. (music) grave (low in pitch, tone etc.)
2. accent grave – accent grave, grave accent

Definizione dizionario grave

	fossa
	excavation for burial

	grave
	(Molto)serio.
	(Very) serious.

	sepolcro
	Luogo (generalmente contrassegnato da una lapide) dove sono seppellite una o più persone (usualmente in una bara sotto terra).
	A place (commonly marked with a headstone) where one or more people are buried (usually in a coffin underneath the ground).

	tomba
	Luogo (generalmente contrassegnato da una lapide) dove sono seppellite una o più persone (usualmente in una bara sotto terra).
	A place (commonly marked with a headstone) where one or more people are buried (usually in a coffin underneath the ground).

serio

	tumulo
	Luogo (generalmente contrassegnato da una lapide) dove sono seppellite una o più persone (usualmente in una bara sotto terra).
	A place (commonly marked with a headstone) where one or more people are buried (usually in a coffin underneath the ground).

adulto

austero

cimitero

considerevole

dignitoso

importante

notevole

pesante

ragguardevole

scolpire

sepoltura

solenne

tagliare

Altri significati:

(transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

(transitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

Low in pitch, tone etc. [from 17th c.]

(transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.

to be checked

(intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

(transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.

(transitive, obsolete) To dig.

(transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

(obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative. [16th-18th c.]

death, destruction.

written accent

having a sense of seriousness

serious in a negative sense

A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.

Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre. [from 16th c.]

Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. [from 19th c.]