Prononciations (4)
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/ˈfɹiːstəʊn/
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/ˈfɹiːstoʊn/
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- US
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ˈfɹiːstəʊn
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ˈfɹiːstoʊn
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Nom
Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
Usage- dénombrable
- indénombrable
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Plus d’exemples (2)
Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.
It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.
The exterior walls are of freestone, and have a smooth, neat appearance.
A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.
Usage- dénombrable
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fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit
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