Dictionary Definition
stone adj : of any of various dull tannish-gray
colors
Noun
1 a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral
matter; "he threw a rock at me" [syn: rock]
2 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" [syn: rock]
3 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 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" [syn: gem, gemstone]
5 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" [syn: pit,
endocarp]
6 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 United States filmmaker (born in 1946) [syn:
Oliver
Stone]
8 United States feminist and suffragist
(1818-1893) [syn: Lucy
Stone]
9 United States journalist who advocated liberal
causes (1907-1989) [syn: I. F.
Stone, Isidor
Feinstein Stone]
10 United States jurist who served on the United
States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946) [syn: Harlan
Fiske Stone]
11 United States architect (1902-1978) [syn:
Edward
Durell Stone]
12 a lack of feeling or expression or movement;
"he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as
stone"
Verb
1 kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should
be stoned according to the Koran" [syn: lapidate]
2 remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
[syn: pit]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
stan, from |*stainaz, from |*stai-. Cognate with Scots stane, Dutch steen, German Stein, Swedish and Danish sten, Norwegian stein and (from Indo-European) with Greek στῖον ("pebble"), Russian стена ("wall").Noun
- A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
- A small piece of stone.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- (plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the
weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc.
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- 1882: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England Volume 4, p. 209.
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- The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- a peach stone
- A hard, stone-like deposit.
- kidney stone
- A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
- A dull light grey or
beige, like that of some
stones.
- stone colour:
- A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
substance
- Albanian: gur
- Armenian: քար (k‘ar)
- Asturian: piedra
- Basque: harri
- Breton: maen , mein p
- Bulgarian: камък
- Catalan: pedra
- Chinese: 石 (shí)
- Chuvash: чул (chul)
- Croatian: kamen
- Czech: kámen
- Danish: sten
- Dutch: steen
- Esperanto: ŝtono
- Estonian: kivi
- Finnish: kivi
- French: pierre
- German: Stein
- Greek: λίθος
- Guaraní: ita
- Hawaiian: haku
- Hungarian: kő
- Icelandic: steinn
- Ido: petro
- Ilocano: bato
- Indonesian: batu
- Interlingua: petra
- Irish: cloch f2
- Italian: pietra, roccia
- Japanese: 石 (いし)
- Korean: 돌 (dol)
- Kurdish: kevir, ber, berd, kuç, بهرد
- Latin: lapis
- Latvian: akmens
- Lithuanian: akmuo g Lithuanian
- Low Saxon: steen
- Malagasy: vato
- Malay: batu
- Maori: whatu
- Northern Sami: geađgi
- Old English: stan
- Pitjantjatjara: apu
- Polish: kamień
- Portuguese: pedra
- Romanian: piatră
- Russian: камень
- Sardinian (Nugorese): preda
- Scots: stane
- Scottish Gaelic: clach
- Serbian: kamen
- Slovak: kameň
- Slovene: kamen
- Spanish: piedra
- Swedish: sten
- Tagalog: bato
- Tupinambá: itá
- Turkish: taş
- Ukrainian: камінь (kamіn’)
- Vietnamese: đá
- Welsh: carreg
- West Frisian: stien
small piece of stone
- Arabic: (ħájar)
- Breton: kailhenn , kailhoù p
- Bulgarian: камък
- Chuvash: чул
- Czech: kámen
- Dutch: steen , steentje
- Estonian: kivi
- Finnish: kivi
- French: pierre
- German: Stein
- Hindi: पत्थर (pat’thar)
- Hungarian: kavics
- Icelandic: steinn
- Irish: cloch f2
- Italian: pietra , sasso , sassolino
- Japanese: 小石 (こいし, koishi)
- Korean: 돌 (dol)
- Kurdish: kevir, ber, berd, kuç
- Latin: lapis
- Marathi: दगड (dagadd) g Marathi
- Polish: kamyk
- Portuguese: pedra
- Russian: камень
- Slovene: kamen
- Spanish: piedra
- Swedish: sten
- Tupinambá: itá
- Turkish: taş
- Ukrainian: камінець (kaminets’)
gem stone
- Finnish: kivi, jalokivi
- French: gemme
- German: Edelstein, Schmuckstein
- Icelandic: gimsteinn , eðalsteinn
- Italian: gemma
- Japanese: 宝石
- Korean: 보석 (寶石, boseok)
- Russian: камень
- Spanish: gema , piedra preciosa
- Swedish: ädelsten
unit of mass
- Russian: стоун
centre of some fruits
medical: hard, stone-like deposit
- Breton: maen-gravell , mein-gravell p
- Bulgarian: камък
- Chinese: 石 (shí)
- Czech: kámen
- Dutch: steen
- Estonian: kivi
- Finnish: kivi
- French: calcul
- German: Stein
- Italian: calcolo
- Japanese: 石, 結石
- Korean: 결석 (結石, gyeolseok)
- Kurdish: kevir, ber, berd, kuç
- Polish: kamień
- Portuguese: pedra
- Russian: камень
- Slovene: kamen
- Spanish: cálculo
- Swedish: sten
piece of hard material used in board games
colour
- Finnish: kivenharmaa
curling stone
- Finnish: kivi
Verb
Translations
kill by pelting with stones
- Arabic: (rajama)
- Breton: labezañ, meinata
- Dutch: stenigen
- Finnish: kivittää
- French: lapider
- German: steinigen
- Interlingua: lapidar
- Italian: lapidare
- Polish: kamienować
- Portuguese: apedrejar, lapidar
- Slovak: kameňovať
- Spanish: lapidar
- Swedish: stena
remove stone from
form a stone during growth
- Finnish: kovettua
intoxicate, especially with narcotics
- Dutch: zich drogeren
- Finnish: huumata, huumautua (narcotics); juovuttaa, juopua (alcohol)
- French: défoncer
- German: sich berauschen
- Swedish: bli stenad
Adjective
Translations
constructed of stone
- Armenian: քարեշեն (qarešen)
- Breton: maen
- Bulgarian: каменен
- Dutch: stenen
- Finnish: kivinen, kivi-
- French: de pierre, en pierre
- German: steinern
- Interlingua: de petra, petrose
- Italian: pietroso , petroso , roccioso
- Latvian: akmens
- Portuguese: de pedra, pétreo
- Russian: каменный
- Spanish: de piedra, pétreo , pétrea
- Swedish: sten-, av sten
having the appearance of stone
- Dutch: stenen
- Finnish: kivijäljitelmä-
- German: steinern
- Italian: pietroso , petroso , roccioso
Adverb
- As a stone (used with following adjective).
- My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
- Absolutely,
completely (used with
following adjective).
- I went stone crazy after she left.
Derived terms
Translations
absolutely, completely
- Finnish: täysin
Derived terms
- Bath stone
- birthstone
- Black Stone
- Blarney Stone
- bluestone
- bondstone
- cast the first stone
- china stone
- cinnamon stone
- cobblestone
- cornerstone
- curling stone
- dolostone
- dripstone
- dry-stone
- eolith
- fieldstone
- flagstone
- footstone
- foundation stone
- freestone
- gallstone
- gravestone
- grindstone
- hard as stone
- headstone
- heathstone
- keystone
- kidney stone
- kill two birds with one stone
- leave no stone unturned
- lodestone
- milestone
- oilstone
- paving stone
- Philosopher's Stone, Philosophers' Stone
- pipestone
- pizza stone
- precious stone
- pudding stone
- rhinestone
- rolling stone
- Rosetta Stone
- soapstone
- standing stone
- stepping stone
- Stone Age
- stone bass
- stone boat
- stone cold
- stone crab
- stone curlew
- stone dead
- stone deaf
- stone fruit
- stone hands
- stone lily
- stone marten
- stone mint
- stone parsley
- stone pine
- stone pit
- stone shoot
- stone the crows
- stone-blind
- stonebreaker
- stone-broke
- stonecast
- stonechat
- stone-cold
- stonecrop
- stonecutter
- stoned
- stone-dead
- stone-deaf
- stone-faced
- stonefish
- stonefly
- stoneground
- stone-ground
- stonehearted
- Stonehenge
- stoneless
- stonemason
- stoner
- stoneroller
- stone's throw
- stonewall
- stonewall
- stonewaller
- stoneware
- stonewashed
- stonework
- stonewort
- stoneyard
- throw stones
- touchstone
- whetstone
- whinstone
Related terms
- acrolith
- lapidary
- lapidate
- litharge
- lithiasis
- lithic
- lithify
- lithography
- lithoid
- lithotomy
- lithotripsy
- lithotripter
- menhir
- monolithic
- sangar
- sardonyx
- sarsen
- saxatile
- saxicolous
- saxifrage
- trilithon
See also
Extensive Definition
Stone may refer to:
Construction and building
- Masonry, the building of structures from stone
- Coade stone, a special form of vitreous stoneware, used for monumental work and architectural decoration
- Standing stone, a solitary stone set vertically into the ground
seealso list of
stone, the types of stone used in building, sculpture, and
masonry work
Geology
- Rock (geology), is a formation of minerals that creates a hard stone.
- Marble, a metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone.
seealso List
of rock types
In print and literature
- Stone trilogy, novels by Graham Edwards
- Stone (novel), a science fiction novel by Adam Roberts
- Stone (Marvel Comics), a martial artist first featured in the Daredevil series
- Stones (Novel) The young adult novel of the year written by William Bell- Canadian Novel. Horror\fiction.screw science
In media
- Stone (film), a 1974 Australian biker film produced and directed by Sandy Harbutt
- The Stones (TV series), an American sitcom
- Piedras (film), (Stones), a 2002 Spanish film directed by Ramon Salazar
- Stone Phillips
In music
- The Rolling Stones, often known simply as "The Stones"
- Stone (band), a Finnish thrash metal band
- The Stone (band), a Serbian black metal band
- The Stones (New Zealand band), a New Zealand rock band
- 12 Stones, an American Christian rock band
- "Stones" (song), a song popular within the Ultima universe
- Stones (Neil Diamond album), released in 1971
- The Stone Roses, an English band
- "The Stone" (Ashes Divide song), a 2008 song by Ashes Divide
- "Stone," a song by Ronnie Lane, recorded by The Small Faces on their album First Step, and based on his song "Evolution".
- Sixteen Stone - album by British grunge band Bush
- "Like a Stone" - hit single by Alternative rock band Audioslave.
Other uses
- Stone (surname)
- Stone, Buckinghamshire in England
- Stone, Kent in England
- Stone, Staffordshire in England
- Stoning, a method of execution carried out by throwing rocks at the victim
- Gemstone, a type of visually attractive stone used in jewelry
- Stone (mass), a unit of mass equal to fourteen pounds
- Stone (Chinese weight), a Chinese unit of weight equal to 120 piculs or 160 pounds
- Calculus (medicine), a painful concretion of materials in organs or ducts, commonly known as e.g. gallstones
- Stone is a slang for crack cocaine
- Stoneware, a clay or ceramic material
- Stone Brewing Company, a brewery in Escondido, California
- Stones Bitter, a bitter beer from Yorkshire
- The NATO reporting code name for the Russian SS-26 Iskander
- A physical token used in a board game
- The hard covering enclosing the seed of a drupe such as a peach
- Another term for the pit of a fruit.
stone in Bosnian: Kamen
stone in Danish: Sten
stone in German: Stein
stone in Persian: سنگ
stone in French: Pierre
stone in Italian: Stone
stone in Hebrew: אבן
stone in Latin: Lapis
stone in Dutch: Steen
stone in Japanese: 石
stone in Kurdish: Kevir
stone in Norwegian Nynorsk: Stein
stone in Polish: Kamień
stone in Russian: Камень
stone in Simple English: Stone
stone in Slovenian: Kamen
stone in Tajik: Санг
stone in Ukrainian: Каміння
stone in Samogitian: Kūlis
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Irish confetti, Lydian stone, Tarmac, Tarvia, aa, abyssal rock, acorn, adamant, adamantine, adobe, agate, alexandrite, amethyst, anklet, anthraconite, aplite, aquamarine, arch, armlet, ashlar, asphalt, aventurine, bakestone, bangle, barrow, basalt, basanite, beads, bedrock, beetlestone, behead, berry, beryl, bijou, bird seed, bitumen, bituminous macadam,
black sheep, blacktop,
blemish, block lava,
bloodstone, blow to
pieces, blow up, board,
bola, bolt, bondstone, bone, boomerang, booze up, boozify, boundary stone,
bowstring, bracelet, brain, brash, brass, breastpin, breccia, brick, brickbat, bricks and mortar,
brilliant, brimstone, bring down,
brooch, brownstone, buhr, buhrstone, burn, burn to death, bust, cairn, cairngorm, capstone, carbuncle, carnelian, cement, cenotaph, chain, chalcedony, chalk, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, chrysoberyl, chrysolite, circle, citrine, clapboard, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, column, concrete, conglomerate, copestone, copperplate, coral, cornerstone, coronet, countermissile, covering
materials, crag, crock, cromlech, cross, crown, crucify, crystal, cup, curb, curbing, curbstone, cut down, cut to
pieces, cyclolith,
deal a deathblow, decapitate, decollate, defenestrate, demantoid, dendrite, diabase, diadem, diamond, disintegrate, dolmen, dolomite, doorstone, dripstone, drop, druid stone, duplicate plate,
eaglestone, earring, edgestone, egg, electrocute, electrotype, emerald, emery rock, execute, face, fell, ferroconcrete, festooned
pahoehoe, firebrick,
flag, flagging, flagstone, flaxseed, flint, flintlike, flinty, floatstone, flooring, fob, footstone, foreign body,
foreign intruder, frag,
fruit, fuddle, garnet, garrote, gem, gem stone, girasol, give the quietus,
glass, glaze, gneiss, goldstone, grain, granite, granitelike, granitic, grave, gravel, gravestone, grindstone, grit, gritrock, gritstone, guillotine, gun down,
hairstone, harlequin
opal, hayseed, headstone, heart of oak,
heliotrope, hoarstone, hyacinth, igneous rock,
impurity, incinerate, inflict capital
punishment, inscription, intruder, iron, ironstone, jade, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, jewel, jugulate, kerb, kerbstone, kernel, keystone, lapidate, lapis lazuli,
lath, lath and plaster,
lava, lay low, limestone, linseed, lithic, living rock, locked-up
page, locket, lodestone, macadam, magma, mantlerock, marble, marblelike, marker, masonry, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch,
memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, metamorphic rock,
milestone, milkstone, millstone, misfit, missile, monkey wrench, monolith, monument, moonstone, morganite, mortar, mote, mound, nails, necklace, necrology, nose ring, nut, oak, obelisk, obituary, obsidian, oddball, oilstone, onyx, opal, overtake, pahoehoe, paper, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving
stone, pellet, pelt, peridot, petrified, petrogenic, phonolite, pickle, pillar, pillow lava, pin, pip, pistol, pit, pitchstone, plank, plaque, plasma, plaster, plasters, plastic plate,
plate, poleax, pollute, porphyry, precious stone,
prestressed concrete, printing plate, printing surface, prize, projectile, pudding stone,
pumice, put to death,
pyramid, quartz, quartzite, regolith, reliquary, remembrance, rhinestone, ribbon, riddle, ring, road metal, rock, rocket, roofage, roofing, ropy lava, rose quartz,
rostral column, rottenstone, rubber plate,
rubble, rubblestone, rubstone, ruby, sandstone, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, sarsen, schist, scoria, scree, sedimentary rock, seed, semiprecious stone, serpentine, shaft, shake, shale, sheathe, shelly pahoehoe,
shingle, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death,
shotgun, shrine, siding, silence, slabstone, slate, slaty, sliver, snakestone, soapstone, souse, speck, spinel, spinel ruby, splinter, stab to death,
stalactite, stalagmite, starstone, steatite, steel, steel plate, stela, stepping-stone, stepstone, stereotype, stew, stickpin, stinkstone, stone to death,
strangle, strike dead,
stupa, swack, tablet, talus, tarmacadam, testimonial, thatch, throw stick,
throwing-stick, tiara,
tile, tilestone, tiling, tipsify, tomb, tombstone, topaz, tope, torpedo, torque, touchstone, trap, traprock, trophy, tufa, tuff, turquoise, typeform, vaporize, veneer, waddy, wall in, wall up, walling, wallpaper, wampum, washboard, weatherboard, weed, whetstone, whitestone, wristband, wristlet, zincograph, zincotype