STONE
Definition:
- [noun] a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
Synonyms: rock
- [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
- [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] 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
- [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
- [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] United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
Synonyms: Stone, Oliver Stone
- [noun] United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
Synonyms: Stone, Lucy Stone
- [noun] United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
Synonyms: Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
- [noun] United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
Synonyms: Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
- [noun] United States architect (1902-1978)
Synonyms: Stone, Edward Durell Stone
- [noun] a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
- [verb] kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"
Synonyms: lapidate
- [verb] remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
Synonyms: pit
- [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
