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Revision as of 10:33, 12 March 2011
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) stan, (deprecated template usage) ston, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) stān, from Template:proto (cf. Dutch (deprecated template usage) steen, German (deprecated template usage) Stein), from Template:proto (compare Latin (deprecated template usage) stiria ‘icicle’, Russian (deprecated template usage) стена (stená), Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., (deprecated template usage) stear ‘tallow’, Sanskrit (deprecated template usage) styāyate ‘it hardens’).
Pronunciation
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Noun
- Template:uncountable A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
- A small piece of stone.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- Template: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.
- Template:botany The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- a peach stone
- Template:medicine A hard, stone-like deposit.
- kidney stone
- Template:board gamesA playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- stone:
- Template:curling A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
Synonyms
- (substance): rock
- (small piece of stone): pebble
- (hard stone-like deposit): calculus
- (curling piece): rock
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun
Translations
substance
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small piece of stone
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gem stone
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unit of mass
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centre of some fruits
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medical: hard, stone-like deposit
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piece of hard material used in board games
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colour
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curling stone
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Translations to be checked
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Verb
stone (third-person singular simple present ston, present participle ing, simple past and past participle stoned)
- Template:transitive To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
- Template:transitive To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- Template:intransitive To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- Template:transitive To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
Synonyms
- (pelt with stones): lapidate
Translations
kill by pelting with stones
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remove stone from
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form a stone during growth
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intoxicate, especially with narcotics
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Adjective
stone (not comparable)
- Constructed of stone.
- stone walls
- Having the appearance of stone.
- stone pot
- Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- Complete, absolute, of the highest degree.
- stone free
Translations
constructed of stone
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having the appearance of stone
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Adverb
stone (not comparable)
- As a stone (used with following adjective).
- My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
- Template:slang Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
- I went stone crazy after she left.
Derived terms
Translations
absolutely, completely
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Derived terms
terms derived from "stone"
- Bath stone
- birthstone
- Black Stone
- Blarney Stone
- bluestone
- bondstone
- cast the first stone
- china stone
- cinnamon stone
- cobblestone
- cornerstone
- curling stone
- dolostone
- dripstone
- dry-stone
- eolith
- fieldstone
- flagstone
- footstone
- foundation stone
- freestone
- gallstone
- gravestone
- grindstone
- hard as stone
- headstone
- heathstone
- keystone
- kidney stone
- kill two birds with one stone
- leave no stone unturned
- lodestone
- milestone
- oilstone
- paving stone
- Philosopher's Stone, Philosophers' Stone
- pipestone
- pizza stone
- precious stone
- pudding stone
- rhinestone
- rolling stone
- Rosetta Stone
- soapstone
- standing stone
- stepping stone
- Stone Age
- stone bass
- stone boat
- stone cold
- stone crab
- stone curlew
- stone dead
- stone deaf
- stone fruit
- stone hands
- stone lily
- stone marten
- stone mint
- stone parsley
- stone pine
- stone pit
- stone shoot
- stone the crows
- stone-blind
- stonebreaker
- stone-broke
- stonecast
- stonechat
- stone-cold
- stonecrop
- stonecutter
- stoned
- stone-dead
- stone-deaf
- stone-faced
- stonefish
- stonefly
- stoneground
- stone-ground
- stonehearted
- Stonehenge
- stoneless
- stonemason
- stoner
- stoneroller
- stone's throw
- stonewall
- stonewall
- stonewaller
- stoneware
- stonewashed
- stonework
- stonewort
- stoneyard
- throw stones
- touchstone
- whetstone
- whinstone
Related terms
terms related to "stone"
See also
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- English adverbs
- English uncomparable adverbs
- 1000 English basic words
- Backgammon
- Greys