All 11 Uses of
grave
in
The Hunt for Red October
- "I note this, and will so enter it in the log," the executive officer said gravely.†
Chpt 1.gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- He paraded at the requisite battle shrines in polished boots and blood-red scarf, and gravely stood watch over the remains of some unknown soldier while clasping to his chest a deactivated PPSh submachinegun, his back ramrod straight before the eternal flame.†
Chpt 3.
- By choice Marko became individual in his thinking, and so unknowingly committed the gravest sin in the Communist pantheon.†
Chpt 3.gravest = most important or most serious
- This situation is at the least unsettling, and at the most a grave and wholly unwarranted provocation.
Chpt 8. *grave = serious and solemn
- Unless the Russians were carrying nuclear warheads, their antiship missiles would not be able to damage his ship gravely—the New Jersey had upwards of a foot of class B armor plate.†
Chpt 9.gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- Of course, Ramius was a loyal Party member, the son of a Party hero who had been carried to his grave by three Politburo members.†
Chpt 1.
- From the grave looks of Moore and Greer, he guessed that these were two of the cleared officers; the other, he assumed, was the deputy director of operations (DDO), another Texan named Robert Ritter.†
Chpt 6.
- This was located in the engine room, aft of the compartment that held the reactor and the heat exchanger/steam generator, the latter placed right at the submarine's center of gravity.†
Chpt 8.
- The vehicle's center of gravity was precisely marked, and they watched the mark approach a particular number engraved on the cargo bay floor.†
Chpt 9.
- We found the grave of a boomer.†
Chpt 15.
- The only marker on the Konovalov's grave was a mass of bubbles.†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(1)
(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Better known meanings of grave and gravity:Less common meanings of grave:
- grave -- a place where a dead body is buried
- gravity -- in the sense of physics to refer to the force of attraction between all masses in the universe--especially the force that causes things to fall toward the earth
- death -- as in "A message from beyond the grave."
- describing a color as dark
- to sculpt with a chisel
- to clean and coat the bottom of a wooden ship with pitch
- grave accent -- a punctuation mark (`) that is used in some non-English languages, and that is placed over some letters of the alphabet to tell how they are pronounced.
- grave musical direction -- in a slow and solemn manner