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词汇 mortician
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Definition of mortician in English:

mortician

noun mɔːˈtɪʃ(ə)nmɔrˈtɪʃən
North American
  • An undertaker.

    〈主北美〉丧事承办人,殡葬业者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I felt there was a need for daycare, and it's one of those growing businesses that will always be around, like doctors and morticians.
    • To the dismay of the statisticians and pollsters, the only folks who truly fit the ‘happiest people’ profile to a tee are apprenticing morticians.
    • A 34-year-old college graduate who studied mortuary science, he was employed as a licensed mortician.
    • I was not a dietician; I was a budding mortician.
    • During his tour in Iraq last year, Cotnoir had been a military mortician responsible for preparing soldiers for open-casket funerals.
    • US military morticians had reconstructed the brothers' faces to look as lifelike as possible, and allowed Western journalists to videotape and photograph them, after Iraqi civilians were sceptical that Uday and Qusay were really dead.
    • Having met a beautiful mortician during their trip, the two agreed that Maxwell Reid would be a perfect choice to play that character.
    • But brutal conditions and the taunts of the mortician's apprentice cause a defiant Oliver to run away to London.
    • Funeral directors, morticians, and cemeteries are discovering the customer-experience thing, adopting technology to personalize and speed a trade long rooted in cookie-cutter sameness.
    • Farmer Hoggett himself looms like a tall, thin tree as he explains the moral underpinnings of veganism; Elliott Gould, already a supporter, frowns like a mortician in a black suit as he surveys the herd of potential endorsers and donors.
    • Believe it or not, this guy actually is a mortician, running a lucrative funeral business in Richmond, Virginia!
    • Three different teams, 31 on each team, medical examiners, morticians on those teams, they will locate the bodies.
    • Cotnoir was a mortician in Iraq and was undergoing psychological counseling at the time of his award, presented by the ‘Marine Corps Times’ last month.
    • Books must deal with the local sheriff, an eager mortician, and a nosey reporter who all want a piece of the dying legend.
    • And I believe the mortician has gone down to receive the body.
    • Inside the tent, U.S. officials said it was standard practice to use morticians putty to prepare bodies for viewing and was not intended to fool the Iraqi people.
    • The standard drill: bodies arrive via truck, usually delivered by morticians or drivers employed by the Coroner's Office, as you need a license to haul dead people.
    • In one case, the report found a hospital mortician was paid £10 for each brain he provided for a research project.
    • The mortician did his job well enough for the other brother to look at his mother in her casket, her face turned to the side to show the undamaged features.
    • All the while I kept thinking about this character in the play ‘Greater Tuna’ who declares that the local mortician, Finis, will not be the last man to zip her up.
    Synonyms
    funeral director

Origin

Late 19th century: from Latin mors, mort- 'death' + -ician.

Rhymes

academician, addition, aesthetician (US esthetician), ambition, audition, beautician, clinician, coition, cosmetician, diagnostician, dialectician, dietitian, Domitian, edition, electrician, emission, fission, fruition, Hermitian, ignition, linguistician, logician, magician, mathematician, Mauritian, mechanician, metaphysician, mission, monition, munition, musician, obstetrician, omission, optician, paediatrician (US pediatrician), patrician, petition, Phoenician, physician, politician, position, rhetorician, sedition, statistician, suspicion, tactician, technician, theoretician, Titian, tuition, volition

Definition of mortician in US English:

mortician

nounmôrˈtiSHənmɔrˈtɪʃən
North American
  • An undertaker.

    〈主北美〉丧事承办人,殡葬业者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I felt there was a need for daycare, and it's one of those growing businesses that will always be around, like doctors and morticians.
    • All the while I kept thinking about this character in the play ‘Greater Tuna’ who declares that the local mortician, Finis, will not be the last man to zip her up.
    • US military morticians had reconstructed the brothers' faces to look as lifelike as possible, and allowed Western journalists to videotape and photograph them, after Iraqi civilians were sceptical that Uday and Qusay were really dead.
    • Inside the tent, U.S. officials said it was standard practice to use morticians putty to prepare bodies for viewing and was not intended to fool the Iraqi people.
    • During his tour in Iraq last year, Cotnoir had been a military mortician responsible for preparing soldiers for open-casket funerals.
    • Three different teams, 31 on each team, medical examiners, morticians on those teams, they will locate the bodies.
    • To the dismay of the statisticians and pollsters, the only folks who truly fit the ‘happiest people’ profile to a tee are apprenticing morticians.
    • Books must deal with the local sheriff, an eager mortician, and a nosey reporter who all want a piece of the dying legend.
    • Believe it or not, this guy actually is a mortician, running a lucrative funeral business in Richmond, Virginia!
    • Funeral directors, morticians, and cemeteries are discovering the customer-experience thing, adopting technology to personalize and speed a trade long rooted in cookie-cutter sameness.
    • Cotnoir was a mortician in Iraq and was undergoing psychological counseling at the time of his award, presented by the ‘Marine Corps Times’ last month.
    • In one case, the report found a hospital mortician was paid £10 for each brain he provided for a research project.
    • The mortician did his job well enough for the other brother to look at his mother in her casket, her face turned to the side to show the undamaged features.
    • I was not a dietician; I was a budding mortician.
    • And I believe the mortician has gone down to receive the body.
    • A 34-year-old college graduate who studied mortuary science, he was employed as a licensed mortician.
    • Having met a beautiful mortician during their trip, the two agreed that Maxwell Reid would be a perfect choice to play that character.
    • Farmer Hoggett himself looms like a tall, thin tree as he explains the moral underpinnings of veganism; Elliott Gould, already a supporter, frowns like a mortician in a black suit as he surveys the herd of potential endorsers and donors.
    • The standard drill: bodies arrive via truck, usually delivered by morticians or drivers employed by the Coroner's Office, as you need a license to haul dead people.
    • But brutal conditions and the taunts of the mortician's apprentice cause a defiant Oliver to run away to London.
    Synonyms
    funeral director

Origin

Late 19th century: from Latin mors, mort- ‘death’ + -ician.

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