Stone

[stəʊn] or [ston]

Definition

(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 .

Typist: Ruth--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Edited by Della

Synonyms and Synonymous

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.

Editor: Peter

Definition

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.

Edited by Ahmed