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Definition of 'stone'Noun
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(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
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A small piece of stone, a pebble.
A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
* Shakespeare
- inestimable stones , unvalued jewels
A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ? 6.3503 kilograms
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(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
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(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
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(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
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(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
* Alexander Pope
- Should some relenting eye / Glance on the stone where our cold relics lie.
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(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
* Shakespeare
- Lend me a looking-glass; / If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , / Why, then she lives.
(obsolete) A testicle.
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(dated|printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone.
Usage notes
All countable senses use the plural stones'' except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural ''stone .
Synonyms
* (substance) rock
* (small piece of stone) pebble
* (hard stone-like deposit) calculus
* (curling piece) rock
Derived terms
( Terms derived from the noun)
* birthstone
* brownstone
* cast the first stone
* cobblestone
* cornerstone
* foundation stone
* gemstone
* gravestone
* hailstone
* headstone
* keystone
* limestone
* lodestone
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* markstone
* milestone
* moonstone
* oilstone
* sandstone
* sink like a stone
* Smithfield stone
* soapstone
* stepping stone
* stone frigate
* stone wall
* touchstone
* turn to stone
* whetstone
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Verb
( ston)
To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
- She got stoned to death after they found her.
To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
(slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
Synonyms
* (pelt with stones) lapidate
Adjective
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Constructed of stone.
- stone walls
Having the appearance of stone.
- stone pot
Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
(AAVE) (Used as an intensifier).
- She is one stone fox.
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Adverb
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As a stone (used with following adjective).
- My father is stone''' deaf. This soup is '''stone cold.
(slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
- I went stone crazy after she left.
Derived terms
* stone cold
* stone dead
* stone deaf
Derived terms
( terms derived from "stone")
* Bath stone
* birthstone
* Black Stone
* Blarney Stone
* bluestone
* bondstone
* cast the first stone
* china stone
* cinnamon stone
* cobblestone
* cornerstone
* curling stone
* dolostone
* dripstone
* dry-stone
* eolith
* fieldstone
* flagstone
* footstone
* foundation stone
* freestone
* gallstone
* gravestone
* grindstone
* hard as stone
* headstone
* heathstone
* keystone
* kidney stone
* kill two birds with one stone
* leave no stone unturned
* lodestone
* milestone
* oilstone
* paving stone
* Philosopher's Stone, Philosophers' Stone
* pipestone
* pizza stone
* precious stone
* pudding stone
* rhinestone
* rolling stone
* Rosetta Stone
* soapstone
* standing stone
* stepping stone
* Stone Age
* stone bass
* stone boat
* stone butch
* stone cold
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* stone crab
* stone curlew
* stone dead
* stone deaf
* stone femme
* stone fruit
* stone hands
* stone lily
* stone marten
* stone mint
* stone parsley
* stone pine
* stone pit
* stone shoot
* stone the crows
* stone-blind
* stonebreaker
* stone-broke
* stonecast
* stonechat
* stone-cold
* stonecrop
* stonecutter
* stoned
* stone-dead
* stone-deaf
* stone-faced
* stonefish
* stonefly
* stoneground
* stone-ground
* stonehearted
* Stonehenge
* stoneless
* stonemason
* stoner
* stoneroller
* stone's throw
* stonewall
* stonewall
* stonewaller
* stoneware
* stonewashed
* stonework
* stonewort
* stoneyard
* throw stones
* touchstone
* whetstone
* whinstone
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