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

  • 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.

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