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STONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
Example:
he wanted a special stone to mark the site
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stone" is a kind of...):
building material (material used for constructing buildings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stone"):
whetstone (a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives)
stela; stele (an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings)
impost; springer (the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs)
paving stone (a stone used for paving)
monolith (a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk))
millstone (one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain)
hearthstone (a stone that forms a hearth)
grindstone (a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools)
gravestone; headstone; tombstone (a stone that is used to mark a grave)
foundation stone (a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building)
cornerstone (a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies)
cornerstone (a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls)
capstone; copestone; coping stone; stretcher (a stone that forms the top of wall or building)
ashlar (a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes)
Instance hyponyms:
Blarney Stone (a stone in a castle in Ireland that is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A lack of feeling or expression or movement
Example:
her face was as hard as stone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("stone" is a kind of...):
chilliness; coldness; coolness; frigidity; frigidness; iciness (a lack of affection or enthusiasm)
Derivation:
stony (showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
Example:
he threw a rock at me
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("stone" is a kind of...):
natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stone"):
xenolith ((geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded)
whin; whinstone (any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt))
wall rock (a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault)
tor (a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill)
stepping stone (a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing)
sill ((geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock)
petrifaction (a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form)
pebble (a small smooth rounded rock)
outcrop; outcropping; rock outcrop (the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land)
intrusion (rock produced by an intrusive process)
crystal; crystallization (a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces)
clastic rock ((geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks)
chondrite (a rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules)
calculus; concretion (a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body)
boulder; bowlder (a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin)
bedrock (solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil)
achondrite (a stony meteor lacking chondrules)
Derivation:
stone (kill by throwing stones at)
stony (abounding in rocks or stones)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States architect (1902-1978)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
Synonyms:
Harlan Fiske Stone; Stone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
jurist; legal expert (a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations)
Sense 6
Meaning:
United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
Synonyms:
I. F. Stone; Isidor Feinstein Stone; Stone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)
Sense 7
Meaning:
United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
Synonyms:
Lucy Stone; Stone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
feminist; libber; women's liberationist; women's rightist (a supporter of feminism)
suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))
Sense 8
Meaning:
United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
Synonyms:
Oliver Stone; Stone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)
Sense 9
Meaning:
United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
Synonyms:
Harlan F. Stone; Harlan Fisk Stone; Harlan Stone; Stone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
chief justice (the judge who presides over a supreme court)
Sense 10
Meaning:
The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
Example:
you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stone" is a kind of...):
pericarp; seed vessel (the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stone"):
peach pit (the stone seed of a peach)
cherry stone (the stone seed of a cherry)
Derivation:
stone (remove the pits from)
stony (showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings)
Sense 11
Meaning:
An avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
Example:
a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("stone" is a kind of...):
avoirdupois unit (any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights)
Meronyms (parts of "stone"):
lb; pound (16 ounces avoirdupois)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Holonyms ("stone" is a part of...):
quarter (a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds))
Sense 12
Meaning:
Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
Example:
stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries
Synonyms:
rock; stone
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stone" is a kind of...):
material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)
Meronyms (substance of "stone"):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stone"):
matrix ((geology) a mass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded)
marble (a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material)
limestone (a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals)
igneous rock (rock formed by the solidification of molten magma)
magma (molten rock in the earth's crust)
calc-tufa; tufa (a soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime)
greisen (a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica)
fieldstone (stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material)
conglomerate; pudding stone (a composite rock made up of particles of varying size)
emery rock; emery stone (a mixture of emery dust and a binder; can be molded into grindstones)
dolomite (a kind of sedimentary rock resembling marble or limestone but rich in magnesium carbonate)
claystone (fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles)
aphanite (fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye)
pumice; pumice stone (a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive)
shingling ((geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction)
caliche (nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru)
crushed rock; gravel (rock fragments and pebbles)
metamorphic rock (rock altered by pressure and heat)
sima (rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium)
sial (the granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum)
sedimentary rock (rock formed from consolidated clay sediments)
road metal (broken rock used for repairing or making roads)
quartzite (hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals)
Derivation:
stone (kill by throwing stones at)
Sense 13
Meaning:
A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
Example:
she had jewels made of all the rarest stones
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("stone" is a kind of...):
crystal (a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stone"):
cabochon (a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets)
opaque gem (a gemstone that is opaque)
transparent gem (a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion)
Holonyms ("stone" is a part of...):
jewellery; jewelry (an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they stone ... he / she / it stones
Past simple: stoned
Past participle: stoned
-ing form: stoning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the pits from
Example:
pit plums and cherries
Synonyms:
pit; stone
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "stone" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
stone (the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Kill by throwing stones at
Example:
People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
Synonyms:
lapidate; stone
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "stone" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to stone the prisoners
Derivation:
stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)
stone (material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust)
stoner (an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill))
stoning (the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death))
Context examples:
He was greeted with snarls by his kind, with curses and stones by his gods.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
More than 1,000 stone tools were collected from the two caves.
(Neanderthals used resin 'glue' for tools, National Science Foundation)
The presence of one or more stones in the common bile duct.
(Common Bile Duct Stone, NCI Thesaurus)
In a little while she sat among the stones, holding her wretched head with both her hands.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A procedure to break a stone into small particles that can be more easily cleared from the body.
(Lithotripsy, NCI Thesaurus)
Every odd moment he could find he had the knife and stone out and was whetting away.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But sometimes a stone will not go away.
(Kidney Stones, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
It results in the formation of stones in the kidney, ureter, and urinary bladder.
(Cystinuria, NCI Thesaurus)
He thought his love slept sweetly: he finds she is stone dead.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
