Pronunciations (8)
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/stəʊ̯n/
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/stoʊ̯n/
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/stɐʉ̯n/
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/ston/
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- Scotland
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/stoːn/
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stəʊn
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stoʊn
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stɐʉn
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Noun
A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
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Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.
The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre.
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It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
A piece of such material: a block of stone, rock or a pebble.
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A railway station which formerly stood a few miles from Sydney has recently been demolished, stone by stone, and has been re-erected as a church in the Australian Capital Territory of Canberra, about 200 miles away.
A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
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[…]Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels[…]
A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
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British people measure their weight in stones and pounds. I weigh eight stone five.
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Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones.
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Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.
The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
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Near-synonym: pip
a peach stone
A hard, stone-like deposit.
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The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth.
A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
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A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
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A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
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A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
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Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie.
It seems to me that when I die / These words will be written on my stone[…]
A mirror, or its glass.
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She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone, / Why then ſhe liues.
A testicle.
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[…]and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels ſtone?
Hee that is wounded in the ſtones, or hath his priuie member cut off, ſhall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
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To make Capons […] ſome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done.
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.
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The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.
Adjective
Constructed of stone.
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stone walls
Having the appearance of stone.
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stone pot
Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
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Used as an intensifier.
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She is one stone fox.
Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that.
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Of course the Torah rejects (*some*) sexual acts between members of the same sex. And of course it doesn't condemn gays and lesbians. Someone who doesn't realize that is a stone bigot to begin with.
“And I got the best metal man in the business going for me, too.” “This job's going to be a stone motherfucker,” Flacco said
He might be a stone killer who simply doesn't care if his victim's alive or dead at the time of disfigurement.
Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
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stone butch
stone femme
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Lately I've read these stories by women who are so angry with stone lovers, even mocking their passion when they finally give way to trust, to being touched.
My physical preference tends more to very masculine-bodied non-transitioning stone TG butches.
Adverb
As a stone (used with following adjective).
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My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
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I went stone crazy after she left.
I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
Verb
To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
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stoned to death
She got stoned to death after they found her.
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55 But hee being full of the holy Ghost, looked vp stedfastly into heauen, and saw the glory of God, and Iesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heauens opened, and the Sonne of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their eares, and ran vpon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans feete, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Steuen, calling vpon God, and saying, Lord Iesus receiue my spirit. 60 And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe.
An up slow train on the Howrah-Burdwan line, north of Calcutta, arrived 15 min. late at Belur recently. The delay resulted in several waiting passengers stoning the driver and the guard.
Our house was being stoned by a group of adolescent boys. We called the police seven times and they wouldn't come.
To wall or wall up with stones.
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[…] and since it was a rule of the French troops not to be a burden on the people along their route it could be that the advance guard dug and stoned the well for the troop's own special use.
To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
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To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
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Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
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To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
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I was stoning the whole of today.
Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning.
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The Marina Barrage is a reservoir, but everyone goes there because the spacious greenery at the top is the perfect place for stoning, which is Singlish for hanging out and chilling.
To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
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Before they did the setup on the machining center, they stoned the table to knock down any nicked burrs.
Adjective
of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
Noun
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
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he threw a rock at me
building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
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he wanted a special stone to mark the site
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
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that mountain is solid rock
stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries
a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
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he had the gem set in a ring for his wife
she had jewels made of all the rarest stones
an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
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a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty 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
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you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
a lack of feeling or expression or movement
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he must have a heart of stone
her face was as hard as stone
Verb
kill by throwing stones at
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People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
remove the pits from
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pit plums and cherries