Main Difference
The main difference between Tomb and Grave is that the Tomb is a burial place and Grave is a burial location of a dead body.
Tomb
A tomb (from Greek: τύμβος tumbos) is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes.
Grave
A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of burial, such as graveyards or cemeteries.Certain details of a grave, such as the state of the body found within it and any objects found with the body, may provide information for archaeologists about how the body may have lived before its death, including the time period in which it lived and the culture that it had been a part of.
In some religions, it is believed that the body must be burned for the soul to survive; in others, the complete decomposition of the body is considered to be important for the rest of the soul (see bereavement).
Tomb (noun)
A small building (or “vault”) for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
Tomb (noun)
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
Tomb (noun)
One who keeps secrets.
Tomb (verb)
To bury.
Grave (noun)
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
Grave (noun)
Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
Grave (noun)
Death, destruction.
Grave (noun)
A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).
Grave (noun)
A count, prefect, or person holding office.
Grave (verb)
To dig.
Grave (verb)
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
Grave (verb)
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
“to grave an image”
Grave (verb)
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
Grave (verb)
To entomb; to bury.
Grave (verb)
To clean, as a vessel’s bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
Grave (verb)
To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
Grave (adjective)
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful. from 16th c.
“sober|solemn|sombre|sedate|serious|staid”
Grave (adjective)
Low in pitch, tone etc. from 17th c.
Grave (adjective)
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. from 19th c.
“serious|momentous|important”
Grave (adjective)
Influential, important; authoritative. 16th-18th c.
Tomb (noun)
a large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead.
Tomb (noun)
an enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or in rock.
Tomb (noun)
a monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place.
Tomb (noun)
used in similes and metaphors to refer to a place or situation that is extremely cold, quiet, or dark, or that forms a confining enclosure
“the house was as quiet as a tomb”
Tomb (noun)
death
“none escape the tomb”
Grave (noun)
a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or dead body, typically marked by a stone or mound
“the coffin was lowered into the grave”
“a mass grave”
Grave (noun)
used as an allusive term for death
“life beyond the grave”
Grave (noun)
a place where a broken or discarded object lies
“they lifted the aircraft from its watery grave”
Grave (noun)
another term for grave accent
Grave (adjective)
giving cause for alarm; serious
“a matter of grave concern”
Grave (adjective)
serious or solemn in manner or appearance
“his face was grave”
Grave (adjective)
(as a direction) slowly; with solemnity.
Grave (verb)
engrave (an inscription or image) on a surface
“marble graved with exquisite flower, human and animal forms”
Grave (verb)
fix (something) indelibly in the mind
“the times are graven on my memory”
Grave (verb)
clean (a ship’s bottom) by burning off the accretions and then tarring it
“they graved the ship there and remained 26 days”
Grave (adverb)
(as a direction) slowly; with solemnity.