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stone

/ stone /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
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"
Type of:
building material
Kinds of:
ashlar Blarney Stone capstone copestone coping stone
verb Sense 2
kill by throwing stones at
"Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"
Type of:
kill
Derived:
stoning lapidation stoner lapidator rock
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
noun Sense 3
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"
Type of:
avoirdupois unit
Has parts:
quarter
Domain:
United Kingdom UK Great Britain
noun Sense 4
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"
Type of:
pericarp seed vessel
Kinds of:
peach pit cherry stone
Derived:
pit
noun Sense 5
United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
Type of:
film maker filmmaker film producer
noun Sense 6
United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
Type of:
feminist women's rightist women's liberationist
noun Sense 7
United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
Type of:
journalist
noun Sense 8
United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
Type of:
jurist legal expert
noun Sense 9
United States architect (1902-1978)
Type of:
architect designer
noun Sense 10
a lack of feeling or expression or movement
"he must have a heart of stone"
"her face was as hard as stone"
Type of:
coldness coolness frigidity
adjective satellite Sense 11
of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
Similar:
chromatic
noun Sense 12
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
"he threw a rock at me"
Type of:
natural object
Kinds of:
achondrite bedrock boulder bowlder calculus
Derived:
lapidate
noun Sense 13
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"
Type of:
material stuff
Kinds of:
quartzite road metal sedimentary rock sial sima
Derived:
lapidate
verb Sense 14
remove the pits from
"pit plums and cherries"
Type of:
remove take take away
Derived:
pit endocarp
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
noun Sense 15
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"
Type of:
crystal
Kinds of:
cabochon opaque gem transparent gem
Has parts:
jewelry jewellery
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
15
Total Synonyms
1
Total Relationships
60
Times Searched
4
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building material ashlar Blarney Stone capstone copestone coping stone kill avoirdupois unit pericarp seed vessel peach pit cherry stone