STONE
\stˈə͡ʊn], \stˈəʊn], \s_t_ˈəʊ_n]\
Definitions of STONE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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United States architect (1902-1978)
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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"
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United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
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United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
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United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
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United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
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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"
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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"
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a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
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of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
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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"
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remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
By Princeton University
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United States architect (1902-1978)
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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"
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United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
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United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
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United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
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United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
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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"
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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"
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a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
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of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A precious stone; a gem.
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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.
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Something made of stone. Specifically: -
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The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
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A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
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A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
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One of the testes; a testicle.
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The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
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A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
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Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
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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.
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To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
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To make like stone; to harden.
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To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
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To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
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To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
By Oddity Software
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To pelt or kill by hurling pieces of rock at; remove the stones, or pits, from; as, to stone cherries.
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Made of stone or earthenware; as, a stone jar.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A hard mass of earthy or mineral matter: a precious stone or gem: a tombstone: a concretion formed in the bladder: a hard shell containing the seed of some fruits: a standard weight of 14 lbs. avoirdupois: torpor and insensibility.
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To pelt with stones: to free from stones: to wall with stones.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To hurl stones at.
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To remove the stones or pits from.
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To furnish, as a well, with stone.
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A small piece of rock, or such pieces collectively.
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A stony concretion in the bladder.
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The hard covering of the kernel in a fruit.
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A measure of weight, avoirdupois, usually 14 pounds.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Gothic] A mass of concreted earthy or mineral matter ;-a precious stone; a gem ;-a piece of rock hewn or cut for building ;-a monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead ;-a calculous concretion in the kidneys or bladder ; the disease arising from a calculus ;-a testicle ;-the nut of a drupe or stone fruit ; -a weight which legally is 14 lbs., but in practice varies with the articles weighed ;-torpidness and insensibility.
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