stone

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Adjective 1.5.1 Translations 1.6 Adverb 1.6.1 Derived terms 1.6.2 Translations 1.6.3 Derived terms 1.6.4 Related terms 1.6.5 See also 1.7 Anagrams

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[edit] Etymology

From Old English stān, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stai-. Cognate with Scots stane, Dutch steen, German Stein, Swedish sten, Danish sten, Norwegian stein and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek στῖον (stion), “‘pebble’”), Russian стена (stená), “‘wall’”).

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• (RP) IPA: /stəʊn/
• (GenAm) IPA: /stoʊn/
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  Rhymes: -əʊn

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stone (countable and uncountable; plural stones)

1. (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
2. A small piece of stone.
3. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
4. (British) (plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms

   • 1843: Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds. — The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.
   • 1882: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England Volume 4, p. 209.

5. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

   a peach stone

6. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

   kidney stone

7. (board games)A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
8. (color/colour) A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

   stone colour:

9. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

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• (substance): rock
• (small piece of stone): pebble
• (hard stone-like deposit): calculus
• (curling piece): rock

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to stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)

1. (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
2. (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
3. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
4. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)

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stone (not comparable)

1. Constructed of stone.

   stone walls

2. Having the appearance of stone.

   stone pot

3. (color/colour) Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
4. Complete, absolute, of the highest degree.

   stone free

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stone (not comparable)

1. As a stone (used with following adjective).

   My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.

2. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).

   I went stone crazy after she left.

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• stone cold
• stone dead
• stone deaf
• stony broke

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• Appendix:Colours

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