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stone
(stōn)n.
1.
a. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock.
b. Such concreted matter of a particular type. Often used in combination: sandstone; soapstone.
2. A small piece of rock.
3. Rock or a piece of rock shaped or finished for a particular purpose, especially:
a. A piece of rock that is used in construction: a coping stone; a paving stone.
b. A gravestone or tombstone.
c. A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone.
d. A milestone or boundary.
4. A gem or precious stone.
5. Something, such as a hailstone, resembling a stone in shape or hardness.
6. Botany The hard covering enclosing the seed in certain fruits, such as the cherry, plum, or peach.
7. Medicine A mineral concretion in an organ, such as the kidney or gallbladder, or other body part; a calculus.
8. pl. stone Abbr. st. A unit of weight in Great Britain, 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms).
9. Printing A table with a smooth surface on which page forms are composed.
adj.
1. Relating to or made of stone: a stone wall.
2. Made of stoneware or earthenware.
3. Complete; utter. Often used in combination: a stone liar; stone-deaf.
adv.
Completely; utterly: stone cold; standing stone still.
tr.v. stoned, ston·ing, stones
1. To hurl or throw stones at, especially to kill with stones.
2. To remove the stones or pits from.
3. To furnish, fit, pave, or line with stones.
4. To rub on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen.
5. Sports To block a shot taken by (an opponent). Used of a goalie.
6. Obsolete To make hard or indifferent.
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stone
(stəʊn)npl stone
1. (Geological Science) the hard compact nonmetallic material of which rocks are made.
2. (Geological Science) a small lump of rock; pebble
3. (Jewellery) jewellery short for gemstone
4.
a. a piece of rock designed or shaped for some particular purpose
b. (in combination): gravestone; millstone.
5.
a. something that resembles a stone
b. (in combination): hailstone.
6. (Botany) the woody central part of such fruits as the peach and plum, that contains the seed; endocarp
7. (Botany) any similar hard part of a fruit, such as the stony seed of a date
8. (Units) Brit a unit of weight, used esp to express human body weight, equal to 14 pounds or 6.350 kilograms
9. (Curling) Also called: granite the rounded heavy mass of granite or iron used in the game of curling
10. (Pathology) pathol a nontechnical name for calculus
11. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing a table with a very flat iron or stone surface upon which hot-metal pages are composed into formes; imposition table
12. (Games, other than specified) rare (in certain games) a piece or man
13. (Colours)
a. any of various dull grey colours
b. (as adjective): stone paint.
14. (modifier) relating to or made of stone: a stone house.
15. (Ceramics) (modifier) made of stoneware: a stone jar.
16. cast a stone at cast aspersions upon
17. heart of stone an obdurate or unemotional nature
18. leave no stone unturned to do everything possible to achieve an end
adv
(in combination) completely: stone-cold; stone-dead.
vb (tr)
19. to throw stones at, esp to kill
20. to remove the stones from
21. to furnish or provide with stones
22. stone the crows slang Brit and Austral an expression of surprise, dismay, etc
[Old English stān; related to Old Saxon stēn, German Stein, Old Norse steinn, Gothic stains, Greek stion pebble]
ˈstonable, ˈstoneable adj
ˈstoneless adj
ˈstonelessness n
ˈstoneˌlike adj
Stone
(stəʊn)n
1. (Biography) Oliver. born 1946, US film director and screenwriter: his films include Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991), Nixon (1995), Alexander (2004), and World Trade Center (2006)
2. (Biography) Sharon. born 1958, US film actress: her films include Basic Instinct (1991), Casino (1995), and Cold Creek Manor (2003)
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stone
(stoʊn)n., pl. stones for 1-5,7-19, stone for 6, n.
1. the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
2. a rock or particular piece or kind of rock.
3. a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose: paving stones.
4. a small piece of rock, as a pebble.
5. a mineral used in jewelry; gemstone.
6. one of various units of weight, esp. the British unit equivalent to 14 pounds (6.4 kg).
7. something resembling a small piece of rock in size, shape, or hardness.
8. any small, hard seed, as of a date; pit.
9. the hard endocarp of a drupe, as of a peach.
10. a calculous concretion in the body, as in the kidney, gallbladder, or urinary bladder.
11. a gravestone or tombstone.
14. hailstone.
15. any of various artificial building materials imitating cut stone or rubble.
16.
adj. a. Print. a table with a smooth surface, formerly made of stone, on which page forms are composed.
b. any surface on which a picture or design is drawn or etched in the process of making a lithograph.
17. made of or pertaining to stone or stoneware.
18. stonelike; stony; obdurate: a stone killer; stone strength.
adv. 19. completely; totally: stone cold.
v.t. 20. to throw stones at.
21. to put to death by pelting with stones.
22. to provide, pave, line, face, or fortify with stones.
23. to rub with or on a stone, as to sharpen, polish, or smooth.
24. to remove stones from (fruit).
Idioms: leave no stone unturned, to explore every possibility; spare no effort.
[before 900; (n.) Middle English stan, sto(o)n, Old English stān, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon stēn, Old High German stein, Old Norse steinn, Gothic stains]
ston′er, n.
Stone
(stoʊn)n.
1. Edward Durell, 1902–78, U.S. architect.
2. Harlan Fiske, 1872–1946, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1941–46.
3. I(sidor) F(einstein), 1907–89, U.S. political journalist.
4. Lucy, 1818–93, U.S. suffragist.
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stone
(stōn)1. Geology A general term for rock, especially as used in construction.
2. Botany The pit of certain fruits, such as the plum or cherry.
3. Medicine A hard mass of minerals or other substance, such as cholesterol, that forms in a body part or organ: kidney stones.
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stone
- From a Germanic base meaning "solidity" or "stiffness."See also related terms for stiff.
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Stone
of drunks—Lipton, 1970.Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
stone
1. 'stone' and 'rock'
Stone is the hard, solid substance which is found in the ground and is often used for building.
The bits of stone are joined together with cement.
...a stone wall.
In British English, a stone is a small piece of stone which you can pick up in your hand.
Roger picked up a stone and threw it.
In American English, a small piece of stone like this may also be called a rock.
She bent down, picked up a rock and threw it into the trees.
In both British and American English, a rock is also a large piece of stone that sticks up out of the ground or the sea, or that has broken away from a mountain.
2. 'stone' and 'pit'
In British English, the large, hard seed in a fruit such as a cherry, date, or apricot is called the stone.
...a cherry stone.
In American English, this seed is called the pit.
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stone
Past participle: stoned
Gerund: stoning
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stone
(in fruit) pit
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Stone
One stone = fourteen pounds. It is an archaic English unit of weight that was sometimes still used in the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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| Noun | 1. |  stone - a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man achondrite - a stony meteor lacking chondrules bedrock - solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil calculus, concretion - a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body; "renal calculi can be very painful" chondrite - a rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules clastic rock - (geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks crystallization, crystal - a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces intrusion - rock produced by an intrusive process outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop - the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land pebble - a small smooth rounded rock petrifaction - a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form sill - (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock stepping stone - a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing tor - a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill wall rock - a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault whinstone, whin - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) xenolith - (geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded |
| 2. | 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" ashlar - a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes cornerstone - a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls cornerstone - a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies foundation stone - a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building grindstone - a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools hearthstone - a stone that forms a hearth millstone - one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain monolith - a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) paving stone - a stone used for paving whetstone - a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives building material - material used for constructing buildings | |
| 3. | 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" material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" mineral - solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition quartzite - hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals road metal - broken rock used for repairing or making roads sedimentary rock - rock formed from consolidated clay sediments sial - the granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum sima - rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium metamorphic rock - rock altered by pressure and heat crushed rock, gravel - rock fragments and pebbles caliche - nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru shingling - (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction pumice, pumice stone - a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive aphanite - fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye claystone - fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles dolomite - a kind of sedimentary rock resembling marble or limestone but rich in magnesium carbonate emery rock, emery stone - a mixture of emery dust and a binder; can be molded into grindstones conglomerate, pudding stone - a composite rock made up of particles of varying size fieldstone - stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material greisen - a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica calc-tufa, tufa - a soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime magma - molten rock in the earth's crust igneous rock - rock formed by the solidification of molten magma limestone - a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals marble - a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material matrix - (geology) amass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded | |
| 4. |  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"jewellery, jewelry - an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) cabochon - a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets crystal - a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure opaque gem - a gemstone that is opaque transparent gem - a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion | |
| 5. | 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" Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds) | |
| 6. | stone - 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" pericarp, seed vessel - the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary peach pit - the stone seed of a peach cherry stone - the stone seed of a cherry | |
| 7. | Stone - United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946) | |
| 8. | Stone - United States filmmaker (born in 1946) | |
| 9. | Stone - United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) | |
| 10. | Stone - United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) | |
| 11. |  Stone - United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946) | |
| 12. | Stone - United States architect (1902-1978) | |
| 13. | stone - a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" chilliness, coldness, iciness, frigidity, frigidness, coolness - a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner" | |
| Verb | 1. | stone - kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock" kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
| 2. | stone - remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" | |
| Adj. | 1. | stone - of any of various dull tannish or grey colors chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue |
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stone
noun
3. gem, jewel, precious stone, gemstone, rock (informal) a diamond ring with three stones
cast in stone fixed, decided, definite, established, settled, arranged The idea is not cast in stone.
Related words
adjective lithic
adjective lithic
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Translations
حَجَرحَجَر المَرارَه او الكِلْيَهحَجَر كَريمحَجَر، مادَّة الحِجارَهقِطْعَةٌ حَجَرِيَّه
камененкамък
kámenkamenovatpeckavypeckovatbrit. váha 14 liber
stensteneudsteneædelstenbritisk vægtenhed
ŝtono
kivi
kivikivittääkovettuanappulatäysin
kamenkamenčić
kavicskőmegkövezvesekõ
batu
steinn-steinnsteinn; bergtegundtaka steina úraldinsteinn
石結石宝石
돌
lapis
akmeninisakmeniniu žvilgsniuakmens darbaiakmenuotasapmėtyti akmenimis
akmensapmētāt/nomētāt ar akmeņiembruģakmeņidārgakmensgaloda
piatră
kameňovať
kamenkamenjatikoščica
kamen
stenstenaädelstenpjäs
หินก้อนหิน
taştaş atmaktaşıtaşlamakçekirdeğini çıkarmak
đá
stone
[stəʊn]A. N
1. (gen) → piedra f; (= gravestone) → lápida f; (= gemstone) → piedra f, gema f
a stone's throw away; within a stone's throw → a un tiro de piedra
to cast the first stone → lanzar la primera piedra
which of you shall cast the first stone? → ¿cuál de vosotros se atreve a lanzar la primera piedra?
to leave no stone unturned → no dejar piedra por mover
it isn't cast or set in stone → no es inamovible, no es para toda la vida
a stone's throw away; within a stone's throw → a un tiro de piedra
to cast the first stone → lanzar la primera piedra
which of you shall cast the first stone? → ¿cuál de vosotros se atreve a lanzar la primera piedra?
to leave no stone unturned → no dejar piedra por mover
it isn't cast or set in stone → no es inamovible, no es para toda la vida
2. (Brit) [of fruit] → hueso m
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stone
[ˈstəʊn] n
(= substance) → pierre f
(= piece of rock) → pierre f
a stone's throw
within a stone's throw of the station → à un jet de pierre de la gare
to leave no stone unturned → ne reculer devant rien
a stone's throw
within a stone's throw of the station → à un jet de pierre de la gare
to leave no stone unturned → ne reculer devant rien
(= gem) → pierre f
(MEDICINE) → calcul m kidney stone
modif [arch, bridge, building, floor, staircase, jar] → en pierre; [block, slab] → de pierre; [carving] → de la pierre
a stone wall → un mur en pierre
a stone wall → un mur en pierre
vt
(mainly British) [+ fruit] → dénoyauter
(= throw stones at) [+ person] → lapider; [+ car, building] → caillasser
to be stoned to death → être lapidé(e) à mortStone Age n
the Stone Age → l'âge m de pierrestone-broke [ˌstəʊnˈbrəʊk] adj (US) → fauché comme les blés stone circle n (British) → cromlech mstone-cold [ˌstəʊnˈkəʊld]
to be stoned to death → être lapidé(e) à mortStone Age n
the Stone Age → l'âge m de pierrestone-broke [ˌstəʊnˈbrəʊk] adj (US) → fauché comme les blés stone circle n (British) → cromlech mstone-cold [ˌstəʊnˈkəʊld]
adj [tea, coffee, soup] → complètement froid(e)
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stone
n
→ Stein m; a heart of stone → ein Herz aus Stein; a stone’s throw from the station → nur einen Steinwurf or Katzensprung vom Bahnhof entfernt; to leave no stone unturned → nichts unversucht lassen; to have a stone in one’s kidney/gall bladder → einen Nieren-/Gallenstein haben; to be set or cast or carved in stone (fig) → in Stein gemeißelt sein
(Brit: = weight) britische Gewichtseinheit = 6,35 kg
vt
(= throw stones at) → mit Steinen bewerfen; (= kill) → steinigen; stone the crows! (Brit, inf) → jetzt brat mir einer einen Storch! (inf)
(esp Brit) fruit → entsteinen
stone
:Stone Age
n → Steinzeit f
stone-blind
adj → stockblind (inf)
stone-broke
adj (US inf) = stony-broke
stone circle
n (Brit) → Steinkreis m
stone coal
n (Miner) → Anthrazit m
stone-cold
adj → eiskalt
adv stone sober → stocknüchtern (inf)
stone crusher
n (Tech) → Steinbrechmaschine f
stone-dead
stone-deaf
adj → stocktaub (inf)
stone erosion
n (Build) → Steinfraß m
stone fruit
n → Steinfrucht f; (as collective) → Steinobst nt
stone marten
n (Zool) → Stein- or Hausmarder m
stonemason
n → Steinmetz m
stone pit, stone quarry
n → Steinbruch m
stoner
n (inf) → Kiffer(in) m(f)
stonewall
stonewaller
n (Pol) → Obstruktionspolitiker(in) m(f)
stonewashed
adj jeans → stone-washed
stonework
n → Mauerwerk nt
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stone
[stəʊn]1. n
a. (material) → pietra; (single pebble, rock) → sasso, ciottolo (also gemstone) → pietra preziosa, gemma; (of fruit) → nocciolo (Med) → calcolo (also gravestone) → lastra tombale, lapide f
to turn to stone (vt) → pietrificare (vi) → rimanere pietrificato/a
within a stone's throw of the station → a due passi dalla stazione, ad un tiro di schioppo dalla stazione
to leave no stone unturned → non lasciare nulla d'intentato
to turn to stone (vt) → pietrificare (vi) → rimanere pietrificato/a
within a stone's throw of the station → a due passi dalla stazione, ad un tiro di schioppo dalla stazione
to leave no stone unturned → non lasciare nulla d'intentato
b. (Brit) (weight, pl gen inv) → 6,348 kg
2. adj (wall) → di pietra
3. vt
b. (fruit) → snocciolare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
stone
(stəun) noun1. (also adjective) (of) the material of which rocks are composed. limestone; sandstone; a stone house; stone walls; In early times, men made tools out of stone.
2. a piece of this, of any shape or size. He threw a stone at the dog.
3. a piece of this shaped for a special purpose. a tombstone; paving-stones; a grindstone.
4. a gem or jewel. She lost the stone out of her ring; diamonds, rubies and other stones.
5. the hard shell containing the nut or seed in some fruits eg peaches and cherries. a cherry-stone.
6. a measure of weight still used in Britain, equal to 6.35 kilogrammes. She weighs 9.5 stone.
7. a piece of hard material that forms in the kidney, bladder etc and causes pain.
verb1. to throw stones at, especially as a ritual punishment. Saint Stephen was stoned to death.
2. to remove the stones from (fruit). She washed and stoned the cherries.
ˈstony adjective1. full of, or covered with, stones. stony soil; a stony path/beach; It's very stony around here.
2. (of a person's expression etc) like stone in coldness, hardness etc. He gave me a stony stare.
ˈstonily adverbˈstoniness noun
ˌstone-ˈcold, ˌstone-ˈdead, ˌstone-ˈdeaf adjective
completely cold, dead, or deaf. He's almost stone-deaf; Your soup is stone-cold. He was stone-dead.
ˈstoneware noun, adjective (of) a hard type of pottery made of clay containing pieces of stone. a stoneware jug.
ˈstonework noun construction done in stone, especially the stone parts of a building.
leave no stone unturned to try every possible means. The police left no stone unturned to (try to) find the child.
a stone's throw a very short distance. They live only a stone's throw away from here.
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stone
→ حَجَر kámen sten Stein πέτρα piedra kivi pierre kamen, kamenčić pietra 石 돌 steen stein kamień, kamyk pedra камень, камешек sten หิน taş đá 石头Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
stone
n. piedra, cálculo.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
stone
n cálculo (form), piedra; kidney — cálculo renal, piedra del or en el riñónEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.