STONE

Definition:

1. [noun] a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
   Synonyms: rock
   
   
2. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: rock
   
   
3. [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"
   
   
4. [noun] 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"
   Synonyms: gem, gem
   
   
5. [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"
   Synonyms: pit, endocarp
   
   
6. [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"
   
   
7. [noun] United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
   Synonyms: Stone, Oliver Stone
   
   
8. [noun] United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
   Synonyms: Stone, Lucy Stone
   
   
9. [noun] United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
   Synonyms: Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
   
   
10. [noun] United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
    Synonyms: Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
    
    
11. [noun] United States architect (1902-1978)
    Synonyms: Stone, Edward Durell Stone
    
    
12. [noun] a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
    
    
13. [verb] kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"
    Synonyms: lapidate
    
    
14. [verb] remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
    Synonyms: pit
    
    
15. [adjective] of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
    
    

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Related Words:

• achondrite
• bedrock
• boulder, bowlder
• calculus, concretion
• chondrite
• clastic rock
• crystal, crystallization
• intrusion
• outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop
• pebble
• petrifaction
• sill
• stepping stone
• tor
• wall rock
• whinstone, whin
• xenolith
• quartzite
• road metal
• sedimentary rock
• sial
• sima
• metamorphic rock
• gravel, crushed rock
• caliche
• shingling
• pumice, pumice stone
• aphanite
• claystone
• dolomite
• emery stone, emery rock
• pudding stone, conglomerate
• fieldstone
• greisen
• tufa, calc-tufa
• magma
• igneous rock
• limestone
• marble
• ashlar
• Blarney Stone
• capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher
• cornerstone
• cornerstone
• foundation stone
• gravestone, headstone, tombstone
• grindstone
• hearthstone
• millstone
• monolith
• paving stone
• springer, impost
• stele, stela
• whetstone
• cabochon
• opaque gem
• transparent gem
• peach pit
• cherry stone

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