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Definition of 'Stone'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) stone
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.

2.  stone
a rock or particular piece or kind of rock.

3.  stone
a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose:
paving stones.

4.  stone
a small piece of rock, as a pebble.

5.  stone
a mineral used in jewelry; gemstone.

6.  stone
one of various units of weight, esp. the British unit equivalent to 14 pounds (6.4 kg).

7.  stone
something resembling a small piece of rock in size, shape, or hardness.

8.  stone
any small, hard seed, as of a date; pit.

9.  stone
the hard endocarp of a drupe, as of a peach.

10.  stone
a calculous concretion in the body, as in the kidney, gallbladder, or urinary bladder.

11.  stone
a gravestone or tombstone.

12.  stone
any of various artificial building materials imitating cut stone or rubble.

13.  stone
any surface on which a picture or design is drawn or etched in the process of making a lithograph.

14. (adj.) stone
made of or pertaining to stone or stoneware.

15.  stone
stonelike; stony; obdurate:
a stone killer; stone strength.

16. (adv.) stone
completely; totally:
stone cold.

17. (v.t.) stone
to throw stones at.

18.  stone
to put to death by pelting with stones.

19.  stone
to provide, pave, line, face, or fortify with stones.

20.  stone
to rub with or on a stone, as to sharpen, polish, or smooth.

21.  stone
to remove stones from (fruit).

22. (n.) Stone
Edward Durell, 1902–78, U.S. architect.

23.  Stone
Harlan Fiske, 1872–1946, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1941–46.

24.  Stone
I(sidor) F(einstein), 1907–89, U.S. political journalist.

25.  Stone
Lucy, 1818–93, U.S. suffragist.

Definition of 'Stone'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) rock, stone
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
"he threw a rock at me"

2. (noun) stone
building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
"he wanted a special stone to mark the site"

3. (noun) rock, stone
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
"that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"

4. (noun) gem, gemstone, stone
a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
"he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"

5. (noun) stone
an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
"a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"

6. (noun) stone, pit, endocarp
the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
"you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"

7. (noun) Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone
United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)

8. (noun) Stone, Oliver Stone
United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

9. (noun) Stone, Lucy Stone
United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

10. (noun) Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

11. (noun) Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)

12. (noun) Stone, Edward Durell Stone
United States architect (1902-1978)

13. (adj) stone
a lack of feeling or expression or movement
"he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"

14. (verb) stone
of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

15. (verb) stone, lapidate
kill by throwing stones at
"People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"

16. (verb) pit, stone
remove the pits from
"pit plums and cherries"

Definition of 'Stone'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) stone
rock
a statue made from stone

2.  stone
a small piece of rock
children throwing stones into the water

3.  stone
a large, hard seed in some fruits
a nectarine stone

4.  stone
a unit used in the U.K. for measuring weight, equal to 14 pounds or 6.35 kilograms
He weighs just over 12 stone.

5. (verb) stone
to throw stones at sb as a punishment
He was stoned to death by the crowd.

Definition of 'Stone'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Stone
concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones

2. (noun) Stone
a precious stone; a gem

3. (noun) Stone
something made of stone. Specifically: -

4. (noun) Stone
the glass of a mirror; a mirror

5. (noun) Stone
a monument to the dead; a gravestone

6. (noun) Stone
a calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus

7. (noun) Stone
one of the testes; a testicle

8. (noun) Stone
the hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp

9. (noun) Stone
a weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed

10. (noun) Stone
fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone

11. (noun) Stone
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; -- called also imposing stone

12. (noun) Stone
to pelt, beat, or kill with stones

13. (noun) Stone
to make like stone; to harden

14. (noun) Stone
to free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins

15. (noun) Stone
to wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar

16. (noun) Stone
to rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone

Translation of 'Stone'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: ( limestone; sandstone; a stone house; stone walls; In early times, men made tools out of stone.
Afrikaans: klip	Arabic: حَجَر، مادَّة الحِجارَه	Bulgarian: камък (материал)
Brazilian: pedra	Czech: kámen; kamenný	German: der Stein, Stein-...
Danish: sten; -sten; sten-	Greek: πέτρα	Spanish: piedra
Estonian: kivi	Farsi: صخره	Finnish: kivi
French: (de) pierre	Hebrew: אֶבֶן	Hindi: पत्थर, प्रस्तर, पाषाण
Croatian: kamen (materijal)	Hungarian: kő	Indonesian: batu
Icelandic: steinn; bergtegund	Italian: pietra; di pietra	Japanese: 石
Korean: 석재	Lithuanian: akmuo	Latvian: akmens; akmens-
Malay: batu bata	Dutch: steen	Norwegian: stein, bergart
Polish: kamień	Portuguese: pedra	Romanian: (de) piatră
Russian: камень	Slovak: kameň	Slovenian: kamen; kamnit
Serbian: kamen	Swedish: sten	Thai: แข็งเหมือนหิน
Turkish: taş	Taiwanese: 石頭	Ukrainian: камінь
Urdu: پتھر	Vietnamese: đá	Chinese: 石头
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