bone

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Adjective 1.2.2 Noun 1.2.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.2.3 Verb 1.2.3.1 Synonyms 1.2.3.2 Translations 1.2.4 Derived terms 1.2.5 Related terms 1.2.6 See also 1.2.7 External links 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 2 Esperanto 2.1 Adverb 3 Ido 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Adverb

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /bəʊn/
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  Rhymes: -əʊn

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English bān. Cognate with Dutch been, German Bein ‘leg’.

[edit] Adjective

bone (not comparable)

1. (color) Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
2. (informal) Said of something that is rubbish or broken.

[edit] Noun

bone (countable and uncountable; plural bones)

1. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone
4. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
5. (color) An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

   bone colour:

6. (US, informal) A dollar.
7. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
8. (slang) Dominoes or dice.
9. (slang) Shortened form of trombone.

[edit] Synonyms

• (rigid parts of a corset): rib, stay

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[edit] Verb

to bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

   "They boned the roast before placing it in the oven."

2. (vulgar slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

   So, did you bone her?

3. (Australia, dated) (In Aboriginal culture) To be the victim of "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
   • 1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48.

     "You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".

4. To study (see also bone up)
   • 1896, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums

     "I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."

5. To polish boots to a shiny finish
   • ca 1980, F van Zyl, SADF National Service (1979-1980)

     "...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits"

[edit] Synonyms

• (remove the bone from): debone
• (vulgar, have sexual intercourse with): bonk (British), do, fuck, screw, shag (British)

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[edit] Derived terms

auditory bone be skin and bone bone ash bone marrow bone meal bone of contention bone spavin bone structure bone turquoise bone up boned bone-dry bonefish bonehead boneless boner boney bonesetter boneshaker boneyard bonfire bony breastbone

bred in the bone cannon bone capitate bone close to the bone coffin bone collarbone condyle crazy bone cuboid bone cuneiform bone dembones debone dog bone ethmoid bone feel it in one's bones fishbone frontal bone funny bone greenstick fracture hamate bone hamulus have a bone in one's leg have a bone in one's throat have a bone to pick with heel bone

hipbone hyoid bone innominate bone intermediate cuneiform bone jawbone keep one's bone green lacrimal bone lamella lateral cuneiform bone long bone lucky-bone lunate bone make no bones about mastoid bone medial cuneiform bone membrane bone nasal bone navicular bone near the bone not make old bones occipital bone otic bone palatine bone

parietal bone pisiform bone pull bone pulley bone rag-and-bone man ringbone scaphoid bone shinbone sphenoid bone splint bone stirrup bone T-bone steak temporal bone throw a bone to to the bare bones to the bone trapezoid bone triquetral bone vomer bone wishbone work one's fingers to the bone zygomatic bone

[edit] Related terms

exostosis myositis ossificans ossature ossein osseous ossicle ossification ossify ossuary osteal

osteitis osteoblast osteoclasis osteoclast osteocyte osteogenesis osteolysis osteoma osteomalacia

osteomyelitis osteophyte osteoplastic osteoplasty osteoporosis osteosarcoma osteosis osteotome osteotomy

[edit] See also

coccygeal vertebra cervical vertebra calcaneus carpal acetabulum clavicle coccyx costa cranium distal phalange femur fibula humerus ilium incus inferior nasal concha intermediate phalange

ischium kneecap lumbar vertebra malleus mandible maxilla metacarpal metatarsal orthopedic os coxae patella pelvic girdle pelvis phalanx proximal phalange pubis radius

rib sacral vertebra sacrum scapula shoulder blade skeleton skull stapes sternum talus tarsal thoracic vertebra tibia trapezium ulna vertebra Appendix:Colours

[edit] External links

• Wikipedia list of bones in the human skeleton

[edit] Etymology 2

Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

[edit] Verb

to bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

1. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
   • 1942: Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 802)

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Adverb

bone

1. well, OK

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[edit] Ido

[edit] Etymology

From bona, good.

[edit] Adverb

bone

1. well