Stone
[stəʊn] or [ston]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a lack of feeling or expression or movement; 'he must have a heart of stone'; 'her face was as hard as stone'.
(noun.) United States architect (1902-1978).
(noun.) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946).
(noun.) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989).
(noun.) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893).
(noun.) United States filmmaker (born in 1946).
(noun.) United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946).
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) kill by throwing stones at; 'People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock'.
(adj.) of any of various dull tannish or grey colors .
整理:露丝--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) 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.
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
黛拉校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Rock, pebble.[2]. Gem, jewel, precious stone.[3]. Nut (of a drupe).[4]. Vesical calculus.[5]. Testicle.[6]. Monumental tablet.
v. a. [1]. Pelt with stones.[2]. Face with stone, line with stone.[3]. Free from stones.
整理:彼得
解釋/意思:
n. a hard mass of earthy or mineral matter the hard material of which rock consists: a piece of rock of a certain size or form or for a particular purpose as grindstone millstone &c.: a precious stone or gem a crystal mirror: a tombstone: a concretion formed in the bladder: a hard shell containing the seed of some fruits: a standard weight of 14 lb. avoirdupois (other stones occur as that of 24 lb. for wool 22 lb. for hay 16 lb. for cheese &c.): torpor and insensibility.—adj. made of stone or of stoneware.—v.t. to pelt with stones: to free from stones: to wall with stones.—n. Stone′-age the condition of a people using stone as the material for the cutting-tools and weapons which in a higher condition of culture were made of metals.—adj. Stone′-blind as blind as a stone perfectly blind.—ns. Stone′-boil′ing a primitive method of making water boil by putting hot stones in it; Stone′-bow a crossbow for shooting stones: a children's catapult; Stone′-brash a soil made up of finely-broken rock; Stone′-break the meadow-saxifrage; Stone′-break′er one who or that which breaks stones a stone-crushing machine; Stone′-bruise a bruise caused by a stone esp. on the sole of the foot from walking barefooted; Stone′-cast Stone's′-cast Stone′-shot Stone's′-throw the distance which a stone may be thrown by the hand; Stone′chat Stone′chatter Stone′clink one of the most common of the British Turdid smaller than the redbreast—the Wheat-ear is the true stonechat.—n.pl. Stone′-cir′cles or Circles of Standing Stones popularly but erroneously called Druidical Circles in Britain and Cromlechs in France consist of unhewn stones set up at intervals round the circumference of a circular area usually of level ground.—n. Stone′-coal mineral coal as opposed to charcoal: any hard coal anthracite.—adj. Stone′-cold cold as a stone.—n. Stone′-col′our the colour of stone grayish.—adj. Stone′-col′oured.—ns. Stone′-cor′al massive coral as distinguished from branching or tree coral; Stone′crop the wall-pepper Sedum acre; Stone′-curlew a large species of plover; Stone′-cut′ter one whose occupation is to hew stone; Stone′-cut′ting the business of hewing and carving stones for walls monuments &c.—adjs. Stoned containing stones; Stone′-dead lifeless; Stone′-deaf quite deaf.—ns. Stone′-dress′er one who prepares stones for building; Stone′-fal′con a species of hawk or falcon which builds its nest among the rocks; Stone′-fly a genus of insects typical of the order Plecoptera—several species are native to Britain and furnish good lures to anglers; Stone′-fruit a fruit whose seeds are enclosed in a hard kernel; Stone′-ham′mer a hammer for breaking stones.—adjs. Stone′-hard (Shak.) as hard as a stone; Stone′-heart′ed (Shak.) hard-hearted cruel pitiless.—ns. Stone′horse a stallion; Stone′-lil′y the popular name of an Encrinite; Stone′-mā′son a mason who works with stone; Stone′-mill a machine for breaking stone; Stone′-oil rock-oil petroleum; Stone′-pine a Mediterranean nut-pine; Stone′-plov′er the stone-curlew; Stō′ner one who strikes or kills with stones; Stone′-rag -raw a lichen Parmelia saxatilis; Stone′-snipe the greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler a common North American bird.—adj. Stone′-still (Shak.) as still as a stone motionless.—ns. Stone′ware a coarse kind of potter's ware baked hard and glazed; Stone′-work mason-work.—adv. Stō′nily.—n. Stō′niness the state of being stony or abounding with stones: hardness of heart or mind.—adjs. Stō′ny made of or resembling stone: abounding with stones: hard: pitiless: obdurate: (B.) rocky; Stō′ny-heart′ed hard-hearted cruel pitiless.—Leave no stone unturned to do everything that can be done in order to secure the effect desired; Mark with a white stone to mark as particularly fortunate.
艾哈迈德校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of seeing a blood stone, denotes that you will be unfortunate in your engagements. For a young woman to receive one as a gift, denotes she will suffer estrangement from one friend, but will, by this, gain one more worthy of her.
To see stones in your dreams, foretells numberless perplexities and failures. To walk among rocks, or stones, omens that an uneven and rough pathway will be yours for at least a while. To make deals in ore-bearing rock lands, you will be successful in business after many lines have been tried. If you fail to profit by the deal, you will have disappointments. If anxiety is greatly felt in closing the trade, you will succeed in buying or selling something that will prove profitable to you. Small stones or pebbles, implies that little worries and vexations will irritate you. If you throw a stone, you will have cause to admonish a person. If you design to throw a pebble or stone at some belligerent person, it denotes that some evil feared by you will pass because of your untiring attention to right principles. See Rock.
錄入:奥利维尔
例句/造句/用法:
- The day was cold and dark and wintry and the stone of the houses looked cold. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It was a corrugated, unsightly mountain of stone. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- If you have got the value of the stone in your pocket, answered Mr. Franklin, say so, Betteredge, and in it goes! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Well, then, he said, I yield; if not to your earnestness, to your perseverance: as stone is worn by continual dropping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A great stone that I happened to find, after a long search, by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Yellow diamonds are more flashingly brilliant than white stones that cost much more. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- As they passed the different mile-stones, Oliver wondered, more and more, where his companion meant to take him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He chose the trade of a lapidary, or polisher of precious stones, an art which in that age was held in almost as high esteem as that of the painter or sculptor. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- By dint of hard scrambling he finally straddled the top, but some loose stones crumbled away and fell with a crash into the court within. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There, Mrs Clennam dropped upon the stones; and she never from that hour moved so much as a finger again, or had the power to speak one word. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- At one end he built a fireplace of small stones from the beach. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Do _you_ want to be trampled upon and stoned? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Do you want me to be trampled upon and stoned? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The child belongeth to the parent; and the violator of wedlock shall be stoned. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They did it, and the people stoned the accused by the city wall, and he died. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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