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grave
A grave is a location where a cadaver, dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is burial, buried or interred after a funeral. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of buria ...
is a location where a dead body is buried.
Grave may also refer to:
Phonetics, diacritics, and music
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Grave (band)
Grave is a Swedish death metal band that was formed in 1988 by vocalist and guitarist Ola Lindgren who is their only constant member. The band had particular success in the early 1990s, and their first four albums, ''Into the Grave'', ''You'l ...
, a Swedish death metal band
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Grave (phonetic), a term used to classify sounds
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Grave (tempo) Grave is a tempo mark and mood designation in music. The word originates in the Italian language and means solemn, heavy, or serious. The grave tempo is very slow at a pace of approximately 20-40 musical beats per minute.
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, a term for a slow and solemn music tempo or a solemn mood in general
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Grave accent
The grave accent () ( or ) is a diacritical mark used to varying degrees in French, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and many other Western European languages as well as for a few unusual uses in English. It is also used in other ...
, a diacritical mark
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Backtick
The backtick is a typographical mark used mainly in computing. It is also known as backquote, grave, or grave accent.
The character was designed for typewriters to add a grave accent to a (lower-case) base letter, by overtyping it atop that let ...
, also known as grave, a character on computer keyboards
Places
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Grave (crater), on the Moon
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Grave, Netherlands
Grave (; formerly ''De Graaf'') is a city and former municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The former municipality had a population of in . Grave is a member of the Dutch Association of Fortified Cities.
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, a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant
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La Grave
La Grave (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association.
It is a small ski resort in the French Alps, dominat ...
, a ''commune'' in southeastern France
People
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Dmitry Grave
Dmytro Oleksandrovych Grave (, ; 6 September 1863 – 19 December 1939) was a Ukrainian, Russian and Soviet mathematician.
Naum Akhiezer, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Mikhailo Kravchuk, and Boris Delaunay were among his students.
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(1863–1939), Russian and Soviet mathematician
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Franz Grave (1932-2022), German Roman Catholic bishop
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Hendrik Gravé (1670–1749), Dutch States Navy officer
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Ivan Grave (1874–1960), Soviet general and scientist
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Jean Grave
Jean Grave (; October 16, 1854, Le Breuil-sur-Couze – December 8, 1939, Vienne-en-Val) was an important activist in French anarchism and the international anarchist communism movements. He was the editor of three major anarchist periodicals, ...
(1854–1939), French anarchist writer
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Jørgen Grave (1909–1988), Norwegian politician
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Manuel Grave (born 1989), Portuguese equestrian rider
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Robert Grave (d. 1600), Anglican priest
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W.W. Grave (1901–1999), English academic
Media and entertainment
*Grave, the main character in the third-person shooter video games ''
Gungrave
is a 2002 Japanese third-person shooter video game developed and published by Red Entertainment (Sega in North America and Activision in Europe) for the PlayStation 2. ''Gungrave'' follows its main character through a variety of stages on a pat ...
'' and ''Beyond the Grave''
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"Grave" (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''), the final episode of the sixth season of ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''
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''Grave'' (film), a 2016 film also titled as ''Raw''
Other uses
*Grave, cognate of the German
Graf
(; feminine: ) is a historical title of the German nobility and later also of the Russian nobility, usually translated as "count". Considered to be intermediate among noble ranks, the title is often treated as equivalent to the British title ...
, a historical title of the German nobility
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Grave (unit)
The grave (, ), abbreviated ''gv'', is the unit of mass used in the first metric system, which was implemented in France in 1793. In 1795, the grave was renamed as the kilogram.
Origin
The modern kilogram has its origins in the Age of Enligh ...
, an old unprefixed name for the kilogram
See also
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Graves (disambiguation) Graves is the plural of grave, a location where a dead body is buried. Graves or The Graves may also refer to:
Geography
* Graves (wine region), a wine region of Bordeaux
* Graves, Georgia, a community in the United States
* The Graves (Massachuse ...
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The Grave (disambiguation)
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The Graves (disambiguation)
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