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stone
Found in thesaurus: natural object, stuff, material, building material, crystal, seed vessel, pericarp, avoirdupois unit, coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness, kill, take away, take, remove, withdraw
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stone
adv.
completely
v.
put to death by pelting with stones, pelt with stones; fit or pave with stones; remove stones or pits from fruit
n.
rock; piece of rock shaped or cut for some purpose; pebble; gem; seed, pit; unit of weight equal to fourteen pounds or 6.36 kilograms (British)
adj.
of or pertaining to stone, made of stone
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Rock (geology)
In geology, rock or stone is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids. For example, the common rock granite is a combination of the quartz, feldspar and biotite minerals. The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock.
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Stone (manga)
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Sin-Ichi Hiromoto. Kodansha released the two bound volumes of the manga on April 23, 2002 and August 23, 2002, respectively.
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Stone
Noun
1. United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
(synonym) Oliver Stone
(hypernym) film maker, filmmaker, film producer, movie maker
2. United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
(synonym) Lucy Stone
(hypernym) feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber
3. United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
(synonym) I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
(hypernym) journalist
4. United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
(synonym) Harlan Fiske Stone
(hypernym) jurist, legal expert
5. United States architect (1902-1978)
(synonym) Edward Durell Stone
(hypernym) architect, designer
stone
Noun
1. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
(synonym) rock
(hypernym) natural object
(hyponym) achondrite
(derivation) lapidate
2. material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
(synonym) rock
(hypernym) material, stuff
(hyponym) quartzite
(substance-meronym) mineral
(derivation) lapidate
3. 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"
(hypernym) building material
(hyponym) ashlar
4. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
(synonym) gem, gemstone
(hypernym) crystal
(hyponym) cabochon
(part-holonym) jewelry, jewellery
5. 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"
(synonym) pit, endocarp
(hypernym) pericarp, seed vessel
(hyponym) peach pit
(derivation) pit
6. 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"
(hypernym) avoirdupois unit
(part-holonym) quarter
(part-meronym) pound, lb
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7. a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
(hypernym) coldness, coolness, frigidity
Verb
1. kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"
(synonym) lapidate
(hypernym) kill
(derivation) rock
2. remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
(synonym) pit
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(derivation) pit, endocarp
Adjective
1. of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
(similar) chromatic
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stone
n.
kámen; drahokam; pecka
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stone
Czas.
kamienować
Rzecz.
kamień; kamyk; pestka
