stone
IPA: stˈoʊn
noun
- (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
- A small piece of stone, a pebble.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- (Britain) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
- (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- (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.
- (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 or tombstone.
- (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
- (obsolete) A testicle.
- (printing, historical) 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.
- (countable) An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.
- (countable) A male given name
- A placename
- A locale in England, United Kingdom.
- A market town in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).
- A village in Buckinghamshire.
- A village in Gloucestershire.
- A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774).
- A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575).
- A locale in the United States.
- An unincorporated community in California.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
- An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
- Ellipsis of Stone County. [One of 75 counties in Arkansas, United States. County seat: Mountain View. It was named after natural stone formations.]
verb
- (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
- (transitive) To wall with stones.
- (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
- (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
- (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
adjective
- Constructed of stone.
- Having the appearance of stone.
- Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
- (LGBT, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
adverb
- As a stone (used with following adjective).
- (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
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Examples of "stone" in Sentences
- Palestinians hurled stones.
- The stone got crystallized.
- The answer is in the stone layers.
- The stone was burned and pulverized.
- The stone is marketable and valuable.
- The serpent was pictured on the stone.
- The quantity of the stone is not mentioned.
- The preservation of the stone is remarkable.
- The weight of the stone tower keeps it pressed against the rock.
- He found out in the end by reading the gossip column of the Rolling Stone.
- Because of that, anything less than a fix literally graven in stone is unacceptable.
- It isn't a woman; It's a blight upon the sex: A freak: It's _stone_, and when lightning strikes stone something bursts to smithereens.
- On one side of the stone is the Aztecs 'conqueror Hernan Cortes' hand holding a spear and on the other side the hand of Cuauhetemoc, the last Aztec emperor, holding a sling.
- Attention-grabbing, unashamedly pretentious and arriving later than scheduled, the stone is an apt tribute to one of the most confounding and charismatic figures in British music.
- Stone of Foundation is said, for peculiar reasons, to have been of a cubical form, must it be confounded with that stone called by the continental Masons the _cubical stone_ -- the _pierre cubique_ of the
- Expose the stone to direct sunlight and hold an opaque white card a few inches from the stone, in the direction of the sun, so as to get the bright reflections _from within the stone_ reflected onto the card.
- When I started on the project I had my doubts about the idea of a diploma that set in stone from the age of 14 that someone would 'be a designer' - or an actor, a film director, an editor, a radio engineer etc.
- _coral stone_, which grows like clustered trees spreading its branches on all sides as is done by real _coral_, to which this stone bears so strong resemblance that it deceives many who are not very skilful respecting the growth and nature of coral.