different between cremation vs casket

cremation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crem?ti?, crem?ti?nis; equivalent to cremate +? -ion

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k???me???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

cremation (countable and uncountable, plural cremations)

  1. A burning; especially the act or practice of cremating the dead, burning a corpse.

Synonyms

  • incineration

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • crotamine, manticore

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casket

English

Etymology

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask +? -et. Doublet of cassette.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?kæs.k?t/, /?k??.sk?t/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?kæs.k?t/

Noun

casket (plural caskets)

  1. A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
    • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 5
      They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.
  2. (Britain) An urn.
  3. (Canada, US) A coffin.
  4. (nautical) A gasket.

Translations

Verb

casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
    • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 5,[1]
      I have [] casketed my treasure.

Related terms

  • cask

References

Anagrams

  • sacket

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