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Meaning of 'stone' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Stone [ 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.
- A precious stone; a gem.
- Something made of stone. Specifically: -
- The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
- A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
- One of the testes; a testicle.
- The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
- A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
- Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
- 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.
- To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
- To make like stone; to harden.
- To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
- To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
- To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Meaning of 'stone' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . stone [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
Example in sentence:
  • a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone
Meaning (2):
- a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
Example in sentence:
  • he had the gem set in a ring for his wife;
  • she had jewels made of all the rarest stones
Meaning (3):
- a lack of feeling or expression or movement
Example in sentence:
  • he must have a heart of stone;
  • her face was as hard as stone
Meaning (4):
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
Example in sentence:
  • he threw a rock at me
Meaning (5):
- building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
Example in sentence:
  • he wanted a special stone to mark the site
Meaning (6):
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
Example in sentence:
  • stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries;
  • that mountain is solid rock
Meaning (7):
- 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 in sentence:
  • you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
8 . stone [ v]
Meaning (8):
- kill by throwing stones at
Example in sentence:
  • People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
Meaning (9):
- remove the pits from
Example in sentence:
  • pit plums and cherries

Nearby Words:

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