Meaning of stone | Babel Free

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1. stone (hard earthen substance that can form large rocks)
2. An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.
   countable
3. A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
   uncountable
4. flint (small cylinder used to produce a spark in a lighter, etc.)
5. A male given name.
   countable
6. Completely; utterly: stone cold; standing stone still.
7. A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.
   countable
8. hailstone (single ball of hail, or solid precipitation)
9. A placename:
   countable, uncountable
10. A locale in England:
    countable, uncountable
11. A village in Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell parish, Buckinghamshire, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7811).
    countable, uncountable
12. leave no stone unturned, to explore every possibility; spare no effort.
13. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
    countable, uncountable
14. 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.
    British, countable, uncountable
15. crack (potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine)
16. A village in Ham and Stone parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6895).
    countable, uncountable
17. (in fruit) pit
18. The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
    countable, uncountable
19. pumice
20. A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774).
    countable, uncountable
21. One stone = fourteen pounds. It is an archaic English unit of weight that was sometimes still used in the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century.
22. A hard, stone-like deposit.
    countable, uncountable
23. A hamlet in Maltby parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK5589).
    countable, uncountable
24. koue بِقَسْوَه، بِجَفاف، بِتَحَجُّر хладно friamente ledově steinern isnende παγερά fríamente kalgilt بطرز بي احساس jäätävästi froidement בִּקשִׁיחוּת पथरीलेपन से, कठोरतापूर्वक, निर्दयतापूर्वक, भावशून्यता से kameno, kamenito köve(cse)sen; kőkeményen, jéghidegen dengan keras kuldalega duramente 無表情に 돌처럼 akmeniniu/pastėrusiu žvilgsniu kā akmens; akmenim līdzīgi dengan beras koudkaldt, steinhardt lodowato friamente cu răceală с каменным выражением ľadovo kamnito kamenito stenhårt, iskallt อย่างเ...
25. A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
    countable, uncountable
26. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034).
    countable, uncountable
27. koudheid تَحَجُّر хладност frieza kamenitost; chladnost steinige Beschaffenheit kulde σκληρότητα, πετρώδης επιφάνεια frialdad kalkus بي احساسي jäätävyys, kivisyys nature pierreuse, duretéקשיחות भावशून्यता, कठोरता koji je kamen, kamenit érzéketlenség; kőszerűség kekerasan sem er grÿttur, harður durezza 無表情 돌 같음 suakmenėjimas akmeņainība bersifat keras koudheid (det) som er hardt/iskaldt lodowata atmosfera frieza caracter pietros, duritate холодность kamenistosť; ľadovosť kamnitost kamenitost s...
28. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
    countable, uncountable
29. A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575).
    countable, uncountable
30. completely cold, dead, or deaf. He's almost stone-deaf; Your soup is stone-cold. He was stone-dead. yskoud, morsdood, stokdoof تماما، كُلّياً изстинал totalmente chladný/mrtvý/hluchý jako kámen eiskalt, mausetot, stocktaub iskold; stendød; stokdøv εντελώς, τελείως παγωμένος, νεκρός, κουφός completamente frío/tieso/sordo jääkülm, koolnud, kurt كاملا بي جان jääkylmä, kuollut kuin kivi, umpikuuro complètement froid; raide mort; sourd comme un potלגמרי पूर्ण sasvim (hladan, mrtav ili gluh) jéghid...
31. A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
    countable, uncountable
32. A locale in the United States.
    countable, uncountable
33. An unincorporated community in California.
    countable, uncountable
34. (of) a hard type of pottery made of clay containing pieces of stone. a stoneware jug. erdewerk مَصْنوعات حَجَرِيَّه керамични изделия louça de barro kamenina; kameninový das Steingut stentøj; stentøjs- κεραμικά από αμμώδη άργιλο gres kivikeraamika نوعي ظرف سنگي kivikeramiikka grès כְּלֵי חֶרֶס शिलामाण्ड kameno pocakljeno posuđe, lončarska roba od kremenaste gline kőedény gerabah leirmunir gres; di gres 陶器の一種 석기 keraminiai indai; keraminis akmens masas keramika perkakasan mengandungi batu stee...
35. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
    countable, uncountable
36. An unincorporated community in Indiana.
    countable, uncountable
37. construction done in stone, especially the stone parts of a building. klipwerk مَبْنى حَجَري каменоделство cantaria kamenné zdivo die Steinarbeit murerarbejde λιθοδομήcantería kivimüüritis سنگ كاري kivityö maçonnerie עֲבוֹדַת אֶבֶן पत्थर की चिनाई kameni zidovi, ziđe kőfaragás pertukangan batu vinna við steinsmíði (muratura in pietra) 石造物 석조물, 석조 건축 akmens darbai akmens būvniecība; mūris; (celtnes) akmens daļas kerja batuan steenwerk murverk, steinkonstruksjon kamieniarka cantaria zidărie каме...
    especially
38. A mirror, or its glass.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
39. An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone.
    countable, uncountable
40. to try every possible means. The police left no stone unturned to (try to) find the child. op alle moontlike maniere يَبْذُلُ قُصارى جُهْدِه не оставям камък върху камък mover céus e terra obrátit každý kámen nichts unversucht lassen prøve alle midler κινώ γη και ουρανό, δοκιμάζω όλα τα μέσα no dejar piedra por mover kõiki vahendeid kasutama همه راهها را امتحان كردن tehdä kaikkensa remuer ciel et terre לְנָסוֹת בְּכָל דֶרֶך אֶפשָרִית तमाम प्रयास करना sve pokušati, poduzeti sve i sva minden kö...
41. A testicle.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
42. An unincorporated community in the town of Rutland, Dane County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
43. 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.
    countable, historical, uncountable
44. Ellipsis of Stone County.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“[…]Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels[…]”

“British people measure their weight in stones and pounds. I weigh eight stone five.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Near-synonym: pip”

“a peach stone”

“The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth.”

“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[…]”

“She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone, / Why then ſhe liues.”

“[…]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.”

“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.”

“The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.”

“Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment.”

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