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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from corner (n.) + stone (n.). The figurative use is from early 14c.\n\nI endorse without reserve the much abused sentiment of Governor M'Duffie, that "Slavery is the corner-stone of our republican edifice;" while I repudiate, as ridiculously absurd, that much lauded but nowhere accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal." No society has ever yet existed, and I have already incidentally quoted the highest authority to show that none ever will exist, without a natural variety of classes.
[James H. Hammond, "Letter to an English Abolitionist" 1845]
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A ceremonial stone set at the corner of a building, joining two exterior walls, and often inscribed with the starting and completion dates of construction, the name of the architect and owner, and other details. 2 By extension, that which is prominent, fundamental, noteworthy, or central. n. 1 A ceremonial stone set at the corner of a building, joining two exterior walls, and often inscribed with the starting and completion dates of construction, the name of the architect and owner, and other details. 2 By extension, that which is prominent, fundamental, noteworthy, or central.
WordNet
n. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork]
a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies
a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
Wikipedia
The cornerstone (or foundation stone) concept is derived from the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation, important since all other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.
Over time a cornerstone became a ceremonial masonry stone, or replica, set in a prominent location on the outside of a building, with an inscription on the stone indicating the construction dates of the building and the names of architect, builder, and other significant individuals. The rite of laying a cornerstone is an important cultural component of eastern architecture and metaphorically in sacred architecture generally. There are six references to cornerstones in both the Old and New Testaments. Jesus is referred to as the cornerstone in Christianity.
Some cornerstones include time capsules from, or engravings commemorating, the time a particular building was built.
Cornerstone is a relational database for DOS by Infocom. It was widely hailed upon its release in 1985 for its ease of use, but is generally considered one of the leading factors in the demise of the company.
Cornerstone is a 1987 album by Holly Dunn. Although it yielded no #1 hits, as would some of her later albums, Cornerstone would attain the highest Billboard Top Country Albums rating in her career for Holly Dunn at #22, based on three hits which made it into the Country Top Ten singles list: the #2 "Love Someone Like Me," the #4 "Only When I Love," and the #7 "Strangers Again."
Cornerstone is a New York-based creative lifestyle marketing and public relations agency with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and London. It is helmed by co-CEOs Rob Stone and Jon Cohen. The company employs approximately 100 professionals worldwide, in addition to a network of field marketing representatives throughout the United States.
Cornerstone is the ninth studio album by Styx, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). Cornerstone was Styx's follow-up to their second consecutive Top 10 selling Triple Platinum album in a row, 1978's Pieces of Eight. Like the four previous Styx albums, the band produced the album themselves. The band started using a new recording studio Pumpkin Studios in Oak Lawn, Illinois. The album was the first where the band shied away from the art-rock/prog-rock influences that dominated their first eight studio albums and was the band's first move towards a more pop/rock direction (band member Dennis DeYoung stated in a 2009 interview that the change in direction came from reading bad reviews that the group received in the rock press while on their first tour of England). Dennis DeYoung had two ballads on the album. The first was the album's first single and Styx's only US #1 single " Babe" which Dennis wrote for his wife Suzanne. The track was performed and recorded as a demo with just him and the Panozzo brothers but then James Young and Tommy Shaw heard the track and decided to put it on Cornerstone with Shaw overdubbing a guitar solo in the song's middle section. Another ballad was the power ballad "First Time" which was intended to be Cornerstone's second single (radio stations were playing it and got such a response that A&M wanted it released) until Shaw complained and threatened to leave the band. " Borrowed Time" was released instead, reaching a disappointing #63 on the charts. DeYoung also wrote the Top 30 hit, the poppish " Why Me", which was the third single release from the album. Dennis predominantly used a Fender Rhodes electric piano on over half of the tracks. Also, the group used real horns and strings on the album on several tracks. DeYoung and Shaw co-wrote two tracks. The opening "Lights" was music by DeYoung and Shaw with lyrics by Shaw (who also sang on the track). The rocking "Borrowed Time" had music by DeYoung (intro) and Shaw with lyrics from DeYoung (who sang on this track). "Borrowed Time" would open concerts on the group's tour in support of Cornerstone nicknamed The Grand Decathlon tour. Shaw's famous song on the album was the folkish " Boat on the River", which became the band's biggest European hit. He also penned the pop-rocker "Never Say Never" and the epic proggish closer "Love in the Midnight," which has been sampled to create the hip-hop song "The Streets Been Good to Me" by the artist Maino, on the album "Death before Dishonor". JY contributed the rocker "Eddie", which was about Edward Kennedy, pleading with him not to make a run for the U.S. presidency.
Cornerstone became Styx's first US Top 5 album peaking at #2 on the Billboard album chart and is currently sitting at Double Platinum according to the R.I.A.A. although A&M said it went Triple Platinum (3 million copies sold in the US).
Cornerstone was a newspaper and later a magazine published by Jesus People USA, focusing on topics of evangelical Christian faith and engagement with politics and culture.
Cornerstone began as an 8-page black-and-white newspaper in 1971, printed at various locations by the itinerant Jesus People community. In 1973 its publication address settled permanently in Chicago, Illinois. Cornerstone quickly grew in artistic style, content, page count, and circulation throughout the United States and other countries. The newspaper carried nearly a thousand addresses of "bulk distributors," providing an early networking vehicle for members of the Jesus Movement and the Christian counterculture. The newspaper regularly focused on Jesus music and musicians, Christian evidences, racism, the drug culture, conversion testimonies, and stories from the Jesus People commune which published it. Subtitled "The National Jesus Paper," Cornerstone peaked in circulation at 250,000 copies by 1979, the year it changed to magazine format.
Though its press run dropped by half with the change in format, its influence and literary variety matured. Regular features were poetry, short fiction, Christian visual and performing arts, news on cults and persecuted Christians, investigative reporting, and full-color comics. The Cornerstone logo on the cover was changed each issue of its life.
The magazine received both criticism and praise for its exposés of Lauren Stratford, John Todd and Mike Warnke, who had made names for themselves with stories of first-hand involvement in Satanism and Satanic ritual abuse which turned out to be untrue. Cornerstone magazine also spawned the Cornerstone Festival. In 2003, Cornerstone ceased publication after publishing 124 issues throughout its 32-year career.
A cornerstone is a ceremonial masonry stone set in a prominent location on the outside of a building.
Cornerstone may also refer to:
Companies/organizations
- Cornerstone (agency), a New York-based creative agency
- Cornerstone, an imprint of Random House UK
- Cornerstone Community Care, a Scottish charity providing support and care for people with disabilities
- Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., an American cloud-based talent management software company
- Cornerstone Policy Research and its legislative action arm Cornerstone-Action, a U.S. political organization based in the state of New Hampshire
- Cornerstone Research, an economic and financial consulting firm in the United States
- Cornerstone Theater Company, a Los Angeles–based theater company
- Cornerstones, a Ghanaian football club
- Cornerstone Church (disambiguation)
- Cornerstones, a Nigerian Insurance Company
- Cornerstone Barristers
"Cornerstone" is a song by the English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, released as the second single from their third album Humbug. It was released on 16 November 2009. Like the previous single " Crying Lightning", the vinyl was made available in Oxfam shops. Alex Turner told Uncut magazine that he wrote this song, "one morning, quite quickly." He added: "There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day you're a bit more defensive. I saw it as a challenge to write something in a major key, but that wasn't cheesy." It was originally written in the key of A Major. In October 2013 it was sampled by the rapper Dom Kennedy for the song "Pleeze" on his album Get Home Safely.
Cornerstone is the twenty-first album in the live praise and worship series of contemporary worship music by Hillsong Live. It reached No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart, debuted at No. 32 on the Billboard 200 chart, and became the No. 1 album on the Billboard Christian Albums chart.
Its first single was "Hope of the World", a song written by Jason Ingram, Reuben Morgan and Matthew Bronleewee, that also is available in Studio Version, in the Deluxe Edition (Digital). Two live music videos has been released on their VEVO channel: "Hope of the World" and "Cornerstone" featuring Reuben Morgan and David Ware respectively.
This is the last Hillsong Live album to feature Darlene Zschech as a worship leader and this is the first time that Zschech did not contribute any of her original songs.
Usage examples of "cornerstone".
The hiss of the storm blew around between the buildings and howled in the cornerstones, but in their lee they were out of the falling snow and sheltered from the wind.
The company had much more interest in a project called the Indian Creek Dam, a structure--to be located hi Milagro Canyon--that was considered the essential cornerstone of a Devine development endeavor known as the Miracle Valley Recreation Area.
And in that acoustically superb vaulted church -- cornerstone laid on March 28, 1343 -- a fat boy, supported by the main organ and the echo organ, sings a slender Credo.
The building at the far end of this block-long concrete bower had a look of some austerity to it, with its strictly channelled cornerstones, but the square was anybody's, street-cultured, with blacks and buskers and birdshit, sax-players, pushers, jungle artists.
This progressive internalization is a cornerstone of psychoanalytic developmental psychology (from Hartmann to Blanck and Blanck to Kernberg to Kohut).
Then a gust broomed away ash and cinders to reveal cornerstones and a stone dragon cracked by the heat.
Meany used to carry the granite slabs, the curbstones and cornerstones, and the monuments.
At the very least, we could obtain a source of the active ingredient in the cornerstone of your drug empire that would allow you to manufacture safe batches for a long, long time.
Bunnish grabbed White's advanced pawn with his queen, removing the cornerstone of the mating net.
Swain had the gall to pump his farm's wastes into Lake Waccamaw, then call out a reporter to show her what an environmentally friendly farm we had at Cornerstone.
The Idealists undoubtedly glimpsed significant portions of the transpersonal domain, and at least made them a theoretical cornerstone of their systems.
The example of the bacterial flagellum quickly became a cornerstone of the intelligent design movement, and Behe's principle of irreducible complexity was promoted as an unavoidable barrier to the evolution of complex structures and functions.
Krispy Kremes are sort of the Deep South equivalent of Dunkin' Donuts, ubiquitous and cheap and great in a sort of what-am-I-doing-eating-dessert-for-breakfast way, and are a cornerstone of what Jim C.
It was they who fitted the small fusion rockets into each chosen asteroid, computed the course to bring it to a Lagrangian point where it would be gravitationally trapped between the Earth and moon, and sent it to join the procession of mineral chunks that made up the cornerstone of Earth’.
He believes they built their sites almost openly wanting you to detect them and you did and then there was a lot of saber-rattling, the whole world's frightened to death, and in exchange for the Soviet agreement to take the missiles out of Cuba your President tore up your Monroe Doctrine, the cornerstone of your whole security system.