Definitions for Stone

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Stone stone

Spelling: [stohn]

IPA: /stoʊn/

Stone is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Stone (enost).

Definitions for Stone

noun

1. the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
2. a rock or particular piece or kind of rock, as a boulder or piece of agate.
3. a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose:
4. a small piece of rock, as a pebble.
5. precious stone.
6. Chiefly British. one of various units of weight, especially the British unit equivalent to 14 pounds (6.4 kg).
7. something resembling a small piece of rock in size, shape, or hardness.
8. any small, hard seed, as of a date; pit.
9. Botany. the hard endocarp of a drupe, as of a peach.
10. Pathology. a calculous concretion in the body, as in the kidney, gallbladder, or urinary bladder. a disease arising from such a concretion.
11. a gravestone or tombstone.
12. a grindstone.
13. a millstone.
14. a hailstone.
15. Building Trades. any of various artificial materials imitating cut stone or rubble.
16. Printing. a table with a smooth surface, formerly made of stone, on which page forms are composed.
17. (in lithography) any surface on which an artist draws or etches a picture or design from which a lithograph is made.
18. a playing piece in the game of dominoes, checkers, or backgammon.
19. Usually, stones. testes.
20. Edward Durell [doo-rel,, dyoo-] /dʊˈrɛl,, dyʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1902–78, U.S. architect.
21. Harlan Fiske [hahr-luh n] /ˈhɑr lən/ (Show IPA), 1872–1946, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1941–46.
22. Irving, 1903–1989, U.S. author.
23. I(sidor) F(einstein) [fahyn-stahyn] /ˈfaɪn staɪn/ (Show IPA), ("Izzy") 1907–1989, U.S. political journalist.
24. Lucy, 1818–93, U.S. suffragist (wife of Henry Brown Blackwell).

Idioms

1. cast the first stone, to be the first to condemn or blame a wrongdoer; be hasty in one's judgment:
2. leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility in attempting to achieve one's goal; spare no effort:

adverb

1. completely; totally (usually used in combination):

adjective

1. made of or pertaining to stone.
2. made of stoneware:
3. stonelike; stony; obdurate:

verb (used with object)

1. to throw stones at; drive by pelting with stones.
2. to put to death by pelting with stones.
3. to provide, fit, pave, line, face or fortify with stones.
4. to rub (something) with or on a stone, as to sharpen, polish, or smooth.
5. to remove stones from, as fruit.
6. Obsolete. to make insensitive or unfeeling.

Origin of Stone

before 900; (noun) Middle English stan, sto(o)n, Old English stān; cognate with Dutch steen, German Stein, Old Norse steinn, Gothic stains; akin to Greek stī́a pebble, Latin stīria icicle; (v

Examples for Stone

“The US cannot tolerate the idea of any rival economic entity,” stone writes.

What are these bits of stone, and of wood, and rusted nails, which are set out in front of him?

My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.

We talked of progress; but progress, like the philosopher's stone, could not be easily attained.

In the grass there can still be seen the stone to which the bull-ring was secured.

Woods were shredded, the earth trembled and the ground exploded in showers of stone and red-hot metal splinters.

Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.

Soon a stone flew against the door—then another— and bang, bang!

As to the stone, it glanced off obliquely and fell midway between the vessels.

That stone would slander the democratic, pro-Western, EuroMaidan revolution as a CIA coup is no surprise.