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[Middle English urne, from Latin urna.]
Lidded ovaloid vase on a circular
A generic name applied to a vase or jar, generally with a rounded body, narrow neck, and a height greater than its maximum diameter, that was used (not necessarily exclusively) to contain the cremated remains of the dead. The name has become applied to some styles of prehistoric pottery (e.g.collared urn) because examples were found in burial contexts before they were widely recognized on contemporary settlement sites. Many prehistoric urns are simply domestic vessels of a style preferentially selected for use in burial rites; in later times ceramics were especially produced for use in burial and ceremonial situations.
Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
— Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857).
Tutor's tip: She wanted to "earn" (to receive payment for one's labor) praise by carving an "erne" (a European eagle) into the marble "urn" (a vase used as a receptacle for cremated ashes).
An urn is a vase, ordinarily covered and without handles that usually has a narrowed neck above a footed pedestal. Knife urns on pedestals flanking a dining-room sideboard were an English innovation of the late 1760s that went out of fashion as sideboards with deep cupboard drawers were introduced at the end of the following decade.
In Classical term: A large decorative container of wood, metal, pottery, etc. In furniture, a large wooden vaselike container which was usually set on a pedestal on either side of a side table. This was the chracteristic of Adam designs and also of Hepplewhite's work. Urns were also used as decorative turnings at the cross points of stretchers in the 16th and 17th century furniture designs, The urn and the vase were very often set on the central pedestal in a "broken" or "swan's" neck pediment --- The Dictionary of Interior Design by Martin Pegler
Funerary urns (also called cinerary urns) were used by many civilizations. After death, a body would be cremated and the ashes were typically collected in an urn (for example, the Greek lekythos).
Romans placed the urns in a niche in a collective tomb called a "columbarium" (literally, "dovecote": the interior of a dovecote is usually covered in rows of niches to house doves).
The discovery of a Bronze Age urn burial in Norfolk prompted Sir Thomas Browne to deliver a careful description of the antiquties found, and then expand to give a survey of most of the burial and funerary customs, ancient and current, of which his era was aware, in Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial (1658).
The Ashes, the prize in the biennial Test cricket competition between England and Australia, are contained in a miniature urn.
Urns are a common form of architectural detail and garden ornament. Well-known ornamental urns include the Waterloo Vase.
In mathematics, an urn problem is a thought experiment in probability theory.
A tea urn is a heated metal container traditionally used to brew tea or boil water in large quantities in factories, canteens or churches, i.e. is it not usually found in domestic use. It has a small tap near the base for extracting either tea or hot water.zh-yue:骨灰罌
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - urne, temaskine, kaffemaskine
v. tr. - anbringe i en urne/temaskine/kaffemaskine
Nederlands (Dutch)
urn, lijkbus, koffie-/ theekan (met kraantje)
Français (French)
n. - urne funéraire
v. tr. - renfermer dans une urne
Deutsch (German)
n. - Urne, Tee- od. Kaffeemaschine, Samowar
v. - in einer Urne aufbewahren
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - υδρία, δοχείο, αγγείο, σαμοβάρι, τσαγιέρα
Português (Portuguese)
n. - urna (f), chaleira ou cafeteira com torneira (f)
Русский (Russian)
урна (погребальная), ваза, большой электрический самовар или кофейник
Español (Spanish)
n. - urna, jarra, cafetera, tetera
v. tr. - colocar (algo) en una urna
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - urna, gravurna, tekök, tekokare, kaffekokare, kaffebryggare
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
瓮, 骨灰瓮, 缸, 把...放入瓮内
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 甕, 骨灰甕, 缸
v. tr. - 把...放入瓮內
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 항아리, 납골단지, 묘비
v. tr. - 항아리에 넣다, 매장하다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 大型コーヒー沸かし, つぼ, 骨つぼ
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) جرة, قارورة, قارورة لحفظ رماد الموتى
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - קנקן, מיחם, כד-אפר (של מת)
v. tr. - שם בכד-אפר
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