Headstone vs. Tablet — What's the Difference?

A headstone, tombstone, or gravestone is a stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. It is traditional for burials in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religions, among others.

A slab or plaque, as of stone or ivory, with a surface that is intended for or bears an inscription.

A memorial stone set at the head of a grave.

A thin sheet or leaf, used as a writing surface.

Also head stone(Architecture) See keystone.

A set of such leaves fastened together, as in a book.

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

A pad of writing paper glued together along one edge.

The cornerstone or principal stone of a building.

A lightweight, portable computer having a touchscreen as the method by which data is input.

The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.

A small flat pellet of medication to be taken orally.

The stone at the head of a grave.

A small flat cake of a prepared substance, such as soap.

The central building block at the top of an arch or vault

To inscribe on a tablet.

A stone that is used to mark a grave

To form into a tablet.

A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.

(religion) A short scripture written by the founders of the Bahá'í faith.

A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.

A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.

(computing) A graphics tablet.

(computing) A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.

(Scotland) A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.

(rail) A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.

(transitive) To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.

A small table or flat surface.

A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

A kind of pocket memorandum book.

A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; - called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

A slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription

A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

A small flat compressed cake of some substance;

A dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet