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Meaning stone meaning

What does stone mean?
Definitions in simple English

stone Noun

— A stone is a hard, solid piece of earth. I do not have a hammer but I will use a stone to hammer the nail.

stone

— noun (= rock) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter he threw a rock at me — noun 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 — noun (= rock) 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 — verb kill by throwing stones at People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock — adjective of any of various dull tannish or grey colors — noun 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 — noun 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 — noun a lack of feeling or expression or movement he must have a heart of stone her face was as hard as stone — verb (= pit) remove the pits from pit plums and cherries — noun (= gem) 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

Stone

— noun United States architect (1902-1978) — noun United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) — noun United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946) — noun United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946) — noun United States filmmaker (born in 1946) — noun United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

Synonyms stone synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as stone?

stone English » English

rock pit pebble boulder seed kernel pip calculus gem lapidate throw stones at stony mountain hill gemstone nut made of stone jewel flint endocarp coral cliff white rock unfeeling stone block small stone rough rocky pelt with stones ore money lump hard rock gravestone gravel flat core concretion clay bullet big wintry white wage war wacke unrelenting unmalleable unforgiving unemotional type of

Stone English » English

Oliver Stone Lucy Stone Isidor Feinstein Stone I. F. Stone Harlan Stone Harlan Fiske Stone Harlan Fisk Stone Harlan F. Stone Edward Durell Stone

Topics stone topics

What do people use stone to talk about?
Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Rock
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with stone
Universe, creation Plant

Parts of a plant
Person Healthy

Injure
Person Life Die

Kill
Physical actions Move something Carry

Throw
States Big

Weigh
Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Jewel
Person Body functions

Urinate, urine
Person Healthy

Disease
Person Healthy Disabled

Deaf
Person Life

Die
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Sorcery
Daily life Food Food preparation Steps in food preparation

Grind flour
Daily life Cleaning

Wash clothes
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building materials
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk
States Big Distance

Near
States Quality Hot

Cold

Conjugation stone conjugation

How do you conjugate stone?

stone · verb

Examples stone examples

How do I use stone in a sentence?

Simple sentences

To kill two birds with one stone.
I wish I were a stone.
He weighed the stone in his hand.
I killed two birds with one stone.
The first structures were built with stone and wood.
The kid picked up a little stone.
That way I kill two birds with one stone.
Bolas are made up of a long cord with two stone balls at the free ends.
What's the idea of throwing that stone?
Tom can swim no more than a stone can.
That proposal may be a way to kill two birds with one stone, but we also have to be careful not to get greedy and spoil everything.
The statue is carved out of stone.
The stone was so heavy that nobody could lift it.
The stone is too heavy for me to lift.
The stone was carved into a large statue.
The stone was inscribed with the date of his death.
The boy threw a stone at the frog.
The child picked up a small stone.
What kind of stone is this?
The bridge is made of stone.
Though he lives within a stone's throw of the school, he is often late.
Don't beat your head against a stone wall.
The house is made of stone.
The house had a stone wall around it.
It will kill two birds with one stone.

Movie subtitles

What was that stone for?
A man once lived in the far east and possessed a valuable ring. The stone ring had a secret power of. making someone at peace with God and man.
Return with me to stone all ye whom from stone were wrought.
You have to defeat me three times, o king: with the stone, the spring, and the spear.
I'll throw the stone for you and carry you in the jump.
Hank Curtis' cabin was a stone's throw from the dancehall.
Every lot is a stone's throw from the station.
And I will have Carfax Abbey torn down stone by stone, excavated a mile around.
Get me a piece of stone, anything.
Find me a stone.
When she got here, she used man after man as a stepping stone.
One night after dinner, the count took one of our sailors. down to see his trophy room. at the foot of those stone steps.
Stone him!
All the boys I've known used to say I was made of stone.
Get me a piece of stone, anything. It will help me drive the stake through their hearts.
We caught them down the old stone quarry.
And when I saw Edward Robinson and George E. Stone put this box in a drawer. I knew something was wrong.
After all, you can't take blood from a stone.
Don't leave a stone unturned. He's probably under one.
Nice stone you have there.
Not at all. There's one very good stone in it.
GET OUT AND FIND THE MAN THAT THREW THAT STONE!
IF I HAVE TO TEAR THIS PLACE DOWN STONE BY STONE.
It's like talking to a stone!
There's one very good stone in it.
Once the plot has been cleared they put up stone walls, without mortar.
I felt I could reproduce the warmth and flesh and blood of life. far more better in wax than in cold stone.
It was a stone.
Yes, ma'am, for Mr. Harold Stone, the department store man.
I tripped on a stone.

News and current affairs

Political maps are never carved in stone.
They were in the open, flat desert, with none of the cover and protection that Hezbollah had in their stone-built villages in Lebanon.
For example, elongated stone blades are found not only at Neanderthal sites in Europe and the Near East, but also at sites inhabited by Moderns in the Near East and Africa since at least 100,000 years ago.
On the other hand, to secure that promise of peace and stability, Europeans must recognize that the Union is not and cannot be perceived as a work set in stone.
Because the rules to be put in place at the end of March will set in stone a two-speed Europe, they are bound to generate resentments that will endanger the EU's political cohesion.
A manicure, carwash, or a massage is often only a stone's throw from one's home.
To put it inelegantly, two birds are killed with one stone.
Competition means that a society has economic winners and losers, and everyone feels pressure to perform; flexibility means that the status quo is not written in stone.
Olmert seemed to be reminding the Iranians of the hard realities of nuclear deterrence: Iran may join the nuclear club someday, but it will return to the Stone Age if it uses those weapons against a country that has a far more advanced nuclear arsenal.
Such a faith understands that belief is a matter of hearts and minds, not of bricks and stone.
Our only defenses against a hostile world were primitive stone tools and fire - a minimal kind of protection at best.
Commodity prices dropped like a stone, and interest rates in emerging markets soared.
For most of our evolutionary history, human beings - and our primate ancestors - have lived in small groups, in which violence could be inflicted only in an up-close and personal way, by hitting, pushing, strangling, or using a stick or stone as a club.
When they found that he was stone deaf to their threats, NATO was forced to raise the ante again, by actually bombing military targets in Yugoslavia.
For example, consider methane clathrate, an ice-like stone that in most cases is built in an ordered way by a complex collaboration of microbes.
A demonstration by Nigerian Muslims in Kano against the US war in Afghanistan provoked stone throwing by Nigerian Christians.
For, if Asia is to begin to build the type of dense institutional infrastructure that has brought Europe peace and prosperity, the flashpoint between China and Taiwan will need to be transformed into a foundation stone of regional cooperation.
Sarkozy's recent poll numbers have been dropping like a stone.
The Stability Pact holds another important lesson: casting in stone institutional arrangements designed to address the problems of the past is a recipe for failure in the future.
The result may yet turn out to be a stepping-stone towards an effective state that deserves international recognition.
He said it was over, with his stone-faced wife on hand to confirm with a silence that spoke louder than words.
We have not found the nearest such world yet, but statistically it should be within about 15 light years of us - a stone's throw in cosmic terms.
A manicure, carwash, or a massage is often only a stone's throw from one's home. Doorman buildings provide round-the-clock service to residents and dog-walkers look after pets during the workday.
Humans stopped using stone because bronze and iron were superior materials.
He was once a stone-throwing, radical, street-fighting man.

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