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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stone
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brick/stone/wooden building
▪ The farmhouse is a long stone building about a century old.
a heart of stone (=a very cruel character)
▪ You’d have to have a heart of stone not to feel sorry for them.
a marble/stone/bronze etc statue
▪ a magnificent marble statue of Frederick the Great
a Rolling Stones/Kylie Minogue etc fan
▪ Mike has been a lifelong Kylie Minogue fan.
a stone cottage
▪ The village is full of old stone cottages with thatched roofs.
a stone/marble/bronze etc sculpture (=made of stone, marble etc)
▪ Opposite the chapel is a bronze sculpture of Cardinal Schwarzenberg.
a stone/wooden/iron bridge
▪ The iron bridge was built in 1811.
foundation stone
▪ Greek and Latin were once viewed as the foundation stones of a good education.
loose stones
▪ His rear wheel spun on the loose stones.
paving stone
philosopher's stone
precious stone
Stone Age
▪ Stone Age weapons
stone circle
stone dead
▪ The wrong music can kill a commercial stone dead.
stone deafinformal (= completely deaf)
▪ She must be stone deaf if she didn’t hear all that noise!
stone deaf
stone/brick/concrete wall
▪ The estate is surrounded by high stone walls.
the Stone Age (=the very early time in human history, when only stone was used for making tools, weapons etc)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
▪ But my spine seemed to turn to cold stone when I saw two other groups converging on the scene of combat.
▪ Placing one hand on the cold stone wall for guidance, she plunged forward.
▪ He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall.
▪ Dark cold stone loomed over him on both sides, blinding him.
▪ The cold stone whispered to her.
▪ I started up the cold stone steps to the gallery.
▪ He seemed to be as much part of it as the cold stone floor he was standing on.
▪ He was as cold as the stone she sat on, she thought forlornly.
dry
▪ From a dry stone wall inland, redstarts darted, like orange flames, tail feathers fanned and quivering.
▪ A dry stone conduit underlies the road here; a roadside marker is a metal keystone rusted blank.
▪ More thick dry stone arches connect the two ruins and lead the eye into a singular landscape.
▪ Away in the distance, beyond the foin, the land became fertile and fields began, enclosed by dry stone walls.
great
▪ We went to the back, to the great stone pond, to see what had happened to the fish.
▪ He stood with the others on the great stone pier.
▪ Like a great black stone slapped down upon the great wei chi board of Chung Kuo.
▪ It is true we no longer live in the cultures that produced the great temples or stone circles or earthworks.
▪ In the middle of the flat ground stood two great stones.
▪ They set the urn in a hollow grave and piled great stones over it.
▪ The moon was shining brightly on the great stones, and between them, on the flat ground, lay the girl.
▪ But behind the great stone structures, the land swells and softens in the sands of the Sahara.
grey
▪ Behind a grey stone wall lay a little pool.
▪ She paused for breath and found her hand on the grey standing stone.
▪ Nicholson looked up at the grey stone building.
▪ Her eyes were also grey like stones through clear water.
▪ Somewhere in the middle lay the depression of grey stone houses.
▪ I found an round grey stone, striped with white, but Dad said it was too small.
▪ Opposite, the fields of the abbey stretched to its grey stone walls.
▪ A large grey stone mansion, surrounded by rhododendrons.
huge
▪ The most ancient burial chambers consisted of huge stone slabs forming a chamber with entrances through which further corpses might be introduced.
▪ Some women ground corn or wheat on huge round stones.
▪ Everything was grey, hard and wild. Huge rough stones stood on the hard ground.
▪ One huge stone still stands at Lochmaben: seven feet-ten inches high, weighing about ten tons.
▪ It came from one of the huge stone jars in the herbalist's shop near the bottom of Manchester Road.
▪ The bear became extremely angry with the fly, and eventually seized a huge stone and succeeded in killing it.
▪ There was the same huge stone behind.
▪ The wind, playing on the huge stones, produced a strange tune, like the notes of a great harp.
large
▪ It too was replaced by a larger stone station, part of which still stands beside the modern structure which succeeded it.
▪ The largest Jilin stone weighed in at well over one thousand kilograms.
▪ From the heart of a large flat pebble-shaped stone he has revealed two fishes in brilliant, iridescent blues.
▪ The surgeons of our corps selected for a hospital a large massive stone building....
▪ There was one large stone farmhouse, outside which a small dark-haired girl was playing with some kittens by an empty farm-cart.
▪ However, if the small stones were put in first, it was impossible to add the large stones.
▪ So letters were left under large stones, wedged firmly in flowerpots or slipped under the door.
▪ On her fingers are three rings bearing large stones.
loose
▪ Boldly he kicked loose stones off the ledges and heard them clatter into the silence below.
▪ Then they were driving over rough ground, loose stones popping under the tyres.
▪ There aren't any loose stones.
▪ My brain feels like a loose stone in a dried leather pouch.
▪ I've been trying to find loose stones again.
▪ He moved lightly over the rough ground, dodging round bushes, avoiding every loose stone and broken twig.
▪ There is only one tall stone standing now and no white cross on the cairn-like mound of loose stones.
▪ Another mechanical argument against Copernicus concerns loose objects such as stones, philosophers, etc. resting on the surface of the earth.
old
▪ The old stones reeked of damp.
▪ Koju drove implacably on until we reached our destination Baabara, a cluster of old stone bungalows.
▪ All old stone paving slabs deserve retention, as do granite kerbs.
▪ On one side was the museum, a marvelous Romanesque Revival creation in an old reddish stone.
▪ It's only an old stone.
▪ The old stone pillars were shaking as if they were being brought back to life.
▪ When she was twenty-eight, she came home to teach a few young women in an old stone store.
precious
▪ Her designs are classical and very delicate, mainly in 18-carat gold jewellery and set with precious stones and pearls.
▪ Metaphorical bloodstains drench these precious stones, however, which makes a visit to the exhibition both eerie and wearisome.
▪ The dazzling inlay of precious stones was long ago picked out with daggers.
▪ He showed her the fruits he had gathered in the garden, and they had turned to precious stones.
▪ Before him lay precious stones of such size, variety and colour that would have made anyone who was not royal gasp.
▪ Diamonds and other highly precious stones varied too greatly in individual quality and worth for use as currency.
▪ Occasionally, precious stones and crystals are used for carving small idols.
small
▪ Past more small, stone houses.
▪ Nestled nearby each platform were rings filled with small stones.
▪ A bonfire blazed inside a small circle of stones.
▪ Little boys threw small stones at the bigger ones.
▪ Down the middle is a path of small stones.
▪ However, if the small stones were put in first, it was impossible to add the large stones.
▪ Gullies often become blocked by dead leaves and small stones which fall through the grating.
▪ The first thing I saw when my eyes blinked into focus was an ant marching over a small stone.
white
▪ It was an old-fashioned kind of garden - beds of roses edged with white stones, and a high, mossy wall.
▪ Then a white stone which had glittery lumps on it, but that wasn't smooth enough.
▪ A single white wei chi stone.
▪ We all sat in the courtyard at the front of his white stone house.
▪ Only a few blocks of white stone lay scattered on the ground in front of the Buddhas' huge niches.
▪ It was a stone house - white stone - with four rooms upstairs and four rooms downstairs.
■ NOUN
building
▪ The method of construction is different from that of Romanesque stone building.
▪ Nicholson looked up at the grey stone building.
▪ Beneath the present stone building were found traces of three earlier structures, all of timber, and all interpreted as churches.
▪ It was a four-storey stone building with one apartment on each floor.
▪ Osaka's decline is evident in the local prefectural office, a grand stone building with grimy linoleum floor coverings.
▪ Thus the earliest civilian activity belongs to the third century with the main stone buildings dated to the fourth.
▪ It is a stone building with a big low-pitched and stone-flagged roof, and its power is provided by two overshot waterwheels.
▪ Even though they lived inside stone buildings, they furnished them like tents.
circle
▪ I imagined solemn covens chanting, straggling torchlight processions winding up to mountain tops, stone circles, sacred trees and springs.
▪ It is true we no longer live in the cultures that produced the great temples or stone circles or earthworks.
▪ But even if we do accept the larger stone circles as computers, this does not really explain why people made them.
▪ Under sheltering trees stand three cairns and stone circles, worn yet awesomely dignified after more than 5,000 years.
▪ In the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, we find the beginning of temples, stone circles, and monumental earthworks.
▪ This Land of Our Fathers comes complete with Celtic stone circle, ancient swamps and iron-age huts.
▪ In the west of Ireland a small roadside shrine to the Virgin Mary stands almost alongside an equally modest stone circle.
floor
▪ Oh, two rugs on the stone floor were smouldering but the fire was contained.
▪ The kitchen was like a big utility room with a huge sink, a stone floor, and a large wooden table.
▪ There is a sudden scuffle as one of the dancers collapses, delirious on to the stone floor.
▪ Biko died on the stone floor of his cell the next day of severe head trauma and brain damage.
▪ He is afraid of falling and of the stone floor under him.
▪ He had a little hut with a stone floor, and a supply of handles and twigs.
▪ There was a large kitchen with a stone floor, but there was no fire, and the room was cold.
▪ At one end is the raised stone floor which at one time must have been a sleeping area.
foundation
▪ The foundation stone of the 519 feet structure was laid in 1891 and the complex opened at Whitsuntide 1894.
▪ Mr Knospe laid the foundation stone and drank his share of champagne at a party in his honor.
▪ He laid the foundation stone of the new greenhouse and later gave 150 guineas for its repair.
▪ Secondly, and most important, it would lay the foundation stones of the series from which the myth could be built.
▪ For over a century the accountancy profession has built its reputation on three foundation stones: objectivity, integrity and competence.
▪ The foundation stone was laid on 27 July 1848 by the Duke of Cambridge.
▪ Many believed that this means it is the foundation stone of the earliest basilica.
gall
▪ Many studies suggest that sludge formation is a marker of gall stone formation.
▪ The reason for the greater total lipid concentration in cholesterol gall stone patients is not clear at present.
▪ Paired hepatic and gall bladder bile samples were collected from 10 patients with cholesterol gall stones and six patients without gall stones.
▪ When it was designed, oral cholecystectography was the method of choice for the diagnosis of gall stones.
▪ As yet, there is no information about nucleation times measured in this way in patients with complete gall stone dissolution.
▪ These findings suggest that factors, in addition to biliary cholesterol saturation, are responsible for the formation of cholesterol gall stones.
▪ No gall stones, gall bladder wall thickening, or other pathology were identified in any subject.
▪ The aetiology of cholesterol gall stones has not been completely elucidated.
house
▪ Set above a handsome forecourt, the stone house has four well-spaced bays, mullioned windows, parapets and gables.
▪ Inside the restored stone house, an altar crowned by a statue of Mary drew the devout and the curious.
▪ Past more small, stone houses.
▪ On the far side of a tan cut cornfield a whitewashed stone house sends up smoke.
▪ The stone houses and tenements which replaced them, however, often continued to sport timber galleries above the street.
▪ We all sat in the courtyard at the front of his white stone house.
▪ Somewhere in the middle lay the depression of grey stone houses.
▪ The two-bedroom rented stone house had been a perfect companion: quiet, comfortable and cozy.
kidney
▪ BFoy struggled through a relapse, hospitalized for kidney stones, a side effect of his drug regimen.
▪ They did know that despite those high amounts, they could, with careful management, prevent kidney stones.
▪ Women get kidney stones most often during that same age period as a result of an infection that occurs with pregnancy.
▪ Frequently, hypercalciuria and kidney stones are the presenting complaint.
▪ The news about calcium and kidney stones is a case in point.
▪ Those who got the most calcium from their diets were at lower risk for kidney stones.
▪ Treatment Progress Since 1980, treatment for serious kidney stones has moved from huge incisions, to punctures, to non-invasive techniques.
▪ If you go back to the earliest burial grounds, you will find kidney stones and gall stones.
paving
▪ As they do so they step on a large paving stone, one which differs from its fellow stones by being black.
▪ Back alleys and building sites, a concrete subway dripping cold, paving stones lurching in sand and black water.
▪ Rhizoids of jungle creep between the paving stones.
▪ He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester.
▪ He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge.
▪ But good intentions make notoriously treacherous paving stones.
▪ He started walking again, treading carefully on the cracks between the paving stones.
wall
▪ It lies against a stone wall, shielded by birch and fur, overlooking a garden of remembrance, containing more memorials.
▪ It does not respect stone walls.
▪ Arkhina had moved calmly into the shelter of the high stone wall.
▪ The line at the stone wall gives way!
▪ Opposite, the fields of the abbey stretched to its grey stone walls.
▪ All have a kitchen with smoke-blackened stone walls and a rough and ready loo hut.
▪ A stile over a stone wall led into a field whose furthest wall consisted of the grey squat towers of the castle.
▪ We could see grassy tracks winding through the fields between stone walls and hedges of prickly pear.
■ VERB
build
▪ Scott's building was formerly the Midland Grand Hotel, and is built of brick with stone dressings.
▪ Further along the gravel road we encountered two old men outside a farmhouse built of stone.
▪ Unlike its neighbours which were built of local stone, the vicarage had been encased in grey stucco early in its life.
▪ I live in a crumbling cathedral, a beaux-arts building festooned with curling stone and stained glass.
▪ It is built of stone, and there is a little cupola with Gothic trimmings on the top.
▪ But the bottom of the building is stone with glass openings and the metalwork holding it.
▪ Phil Physioc, his brother, father and sons built a little stone summer cabin upon it by hand.
carve
▪ The men were then seconded to Britain to assemble the intricately carved blocks of stone that make up the temple building.
▪ A view, in other words, unsullied by buildings with the names of individuals carved in stone on their facades.
▪ Now most of the monasteries have carved stairways into the stone or erected bridges to usher outsiders into their world.
▪ In general, male stones are employed for making major icons of Gods while the pedestal is carved out of female stones.
▪ The Colonel did drive me to Jaisalmer, a city of carved golden stone set at the edge of the Thar.
▪ They are not carved on tablets of stone.
▪ He neither moved nor made a sound, like a figure carved of stone.
cast
▪ His killer had rifled his wallet before casting the stone into the stream.
▪ Rather, remain calm, let Mailer be Mailer, refrain from casting stones and you will be rewarded.
▪ Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, I may be hearing you say.
▪ A time to gather stones together, a time to cast away stones.
lay
▪ There he lay, in knightly stone effigy, with a row of eight knights in stone cartoon-strip below him.
▪ Mr Knospe laid the foundation stone and drank his share of champagne at a party in his honor.
▪ Mr Gladstone laid the foundation stone.
▪ Before him lay precious stones of such size, variety and colour that would have made anyone who was not royal gasp.
▪ Together he and Eleanor laid foundation stones for the monastery of St Augustine in Limoges in 1171.
▪ He laid the foundation stone of the new greenhouse and later gave 150 guineas for its repair.
▪ Good workmen they must have been, to lay stones, so scarred by time and events, and still so true.
▪ Secondly, and most important, it would lay the foundation stones of the series from which the myth could be built.
lose
▪ She had lost three stones in four months and had extremely slim hips and thighs to prove it.
▪ But he could only side-slice the tortoise-shell, and he lost two stones to Alistair before he had another go at it.
▪ Jones is in a Merseyside clinic after losing a stone and a half in weight over the last seven days.
▪ He has lost I stone and he is 73.
▪ She lost three stone on the low fat diet and reduced from a size 16 to a size 8!
▪ Three months later I am fitter and have lost two stone.
▪ Since embarking on the diet Barbara has lost over a stone and her inch loss is quite remarkable.
▪ I have just started my first ever diet in a bid to lose about half a stone.
throw
▪ Usually he lingered by the stream to throw in stones, but today he didn't stop.
▪ Partygoers rocked a bus and threw stones and bottles at police officers and patrol cars.
▪ Others began jeering and eventually threw bottles and stones.
▪ Little boys threw small stones at the bigger ones.
▪ Some of the people ran away when they saw me, but the others shouted and threw stones at me.
▪ Crowds of angry, panicky depositors threw stones at government buildings and police.
▪ He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone.
▪ The boys would throw stones or snowballs with rocks in them.
turn
▪ But my spine seemed to turn to cold stone when I saw two other groups converging on the scene of combat.
▪ One day, Shawn turned over a stone, and oh the excitement of discovering a new world!
▪ It will only turn her to stone, I promise you.
▪ Soon he wanted to turn over every stone and log in the forest.
▪ The setting sun had turned the pale stone walls to gold.
▪ He showed her the fruits he had gathered in the garden, and they had turned to precious stones.
▪ It uses them to turn over stones when it is looking for food.
▪ Guy turned to consider the stone hall.
weigh
▪ And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon.
▪ I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line: before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten.
▪ But the big two, weighing 35 stones between them, reckon he's got no chance.
▪ I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line: before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten.
▪ The lifeguard, who weighs fifteen stone and does not shave beneath her arms, yells at me to stop.
▪ A Prague newspaper said yesterday that he weighed 36 stone.
▪ The bad news is he weighs just under 30 stone at press time, down fourteen stone from his previous weight.
▪ Suitcases that had once been quite light now felt as if they were weighed down with stones.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hail of bullets/stones etc
▪ At 8am police officers, accompanying prison staff, tried to enter the centre but were met by a hail of stones.
▪ Sandra Mitchley, 35, died immediately in a hail of bullets.
▪ The man got within twenty yards of the tape before a hail of bullets finally brought him down.
▪ The mere appearance of a uniform is often enough to provoke a hail of stones, even a riot.
▪ They knew they had entered small-arms range when a hail of bullets crippled the steering.
▪ Three West Belfast men died in a hail of bullets.
a rolling stone gathers no moss
be faced with stone/concrete etc
▪ It is faced with stone on the outside and red marble inside.
be written/set/cast in tablets of stone
kill sth stone dead
▪ Indeed, as expectations can kill the magic stone dead, such occasions are often evoked by going somewhere completely new.
kill two birds with one stone
▪ Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
▪ Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
▪ By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
▪ In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
▪ Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
▪ Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
▪ Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
like getting blood out of a stone
people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
skim stones/pebbles etc
▪ Small boys skim stones across the surface of the river.
skip rocks/stones
stepping stones
the Stone Age
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a stone wall
▪ Kids were throwing stones into the water.
▪ Messina is a city built of stone.
▪ The gold ring was set with four precious stones.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And he insists that the museum trustees acted without authority when they gave the stones away.
▪ Bernice knelt at the wall, pressing her ear against the stone.
▪ Does he believe that one can get blood out of a stone?
▪ He is afraid of falling and of the stone floor under him.
▪ It is not difficult to construct your own labyrinth, either in stones or cut into your lawn.
▪ The Oxford sequences were shot in Edinburgh and the uncompromising stone facades of that city become darker and darker.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
▪ Then, one by one, they were stoned to death.
▪ I remember hearing stories in my childhood about how women like that were stoned to death in the old country.
▪ The beheading of murderers, the flogging and stoning to death of adulterers, the circumcision of women?
▪ Not even homophobes would today sanction the stoning to death of homosexuals.
▪ Had the court believed her, the men could have been convicted of adultery and stoned to death.
▪ They might approve of, and practice, ostracizing homosexuals from society, but stoning them to death?
▪ The girl was to be guarded until she delivered, at which time she was to be stoned to death.
▪ TheJewish council stoned Stephen to death after he denounced them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hail of bullets/stones etc
▪ At 8am police officers, accompanying prison staff, tried to enter the centre but were met by a hail of stones.
▪ Sandra Mitchley, 35, died immediately in a hail of bullets.
▪ The man got within twenty yards of the tape before a hail of bullets finally brought him down.
▪ The mere appearance of a uniform is often enough to provoke a hail of stones, even a riot.
▪ They knew they had entered small-arms range when a hail of bullets crippled the steering.
▪ Three West Belfast men died in a hail of bullets.
be written/set/cast in tablets of stone
kill sth stone dead
▪ Indeed, as expectations can kill the magic stone dead, such occasions are often evoked by going somewhere completely new.
like getting blood out of a stone
people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
stepping stones
the Stone Age
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ During the riot the mob started stoning the British embassy.
▪ The thieves were caught and sentenced to be stoned to death.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I remember hearing stories in my childhood about how women like that were stoned to death in the old country.
▪ Late last year five women wearing T-shirts were stoned in Dili's central market for dressing inappropriately and talking on mobile phones.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stone

Stone \Stone\, n. [OE. ston, stan, AS. st[=a]n; akin to OS. & OFries. st[=e]n, D. steen, G. stein, Icel. steinn, Sw. sten, Dan. steen, Goth. stains, Russ. stiena a wall, Gr. ?, ?, a pebble. [root]167. Cf. Steen.]

  1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. ``Dumb as a stone.''
    --Chaucer.

    They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar.
    --Gen. xi. 3.

    Note: In popular language, very large masses of stone are called rocks; small masses are called stones; and the finer kinds, gravel, or sand, or grains of sand. Stone is much and widely used in the construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture, and the like.

  2. A precious stone; a gem. ``Many a rich stone.''
    --Chaucer. ``Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels.''
    --Shak.

  3. Something made of stone. Specifically:

    1. The glass of a mirror; a mirror. [Obs.]

      Lend me a looking-glass; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, Why, then she lives.
      --Shak.

    2. A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
      --Gray.

      Should some relenting eye Glance on the where our cold relics lie.
      --Pope.

  4. (Med.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

  5. One of the testes; a testicle.
    --Shak.

  6. (Bot.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

  7. A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. [Eng.]

    Note: The stone of butchers' meat or fish is reckoned at 8 lbs.; of cheese, 16 lbs.; of hemp, 32 lbs.; of glass, 5 lbs.

  8. Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

    I have not yet forgot myself to stone.
    --Pope.

  9. (Print.) 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; -- called also imposing stone. Note: Stone is used adjectively or in composition with other words to denote made of stone, containing a stone or stones, employed on stone, or, more generally, of or pertaining to stone or stones; as, stone fruit, or stone-fruit; stone-hammer, or stone hammer; stone falcon, or stone-falcon. Compounded with some adjectives it denotes a degree of the quality expressed by the adjective equal to that possessed by a stone; as, stone-dead, stone-blind, stone-cold, stone-still, etc. Atlantic stone, ivory. [Obs.] ``Citron tables, or Atlantic stone.'' --Milton. Bowing stone. Same as Cromlech. --Encyc. Brit. Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the explosion of a meteor. Philosopher's stone. See under Philosopher. Rocking stone. See Rocking-stone. Stone age, a supposed prehistoric age of the world when stone and bone were habitually used as the materials for weapons and tools; -- called also flint age. The bronze age succeeded to this. Stone bass (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Serranus and allied genera, as Serranus Couchii, and Polyprion cernium of Europe; -- called also sea perch. Stone biter (Zo["o]l.), the wolf fish. Stone boiling, a method of boiling water or milk by dropping hot stones into it, -- in use among savages. --Tylor. Stone borer (Zo["o]l.), any animal that bores stones; especially, one of certain bivalve mollusks which burrow in limestone. See Lithodomus, and Saxicava. Stone bramble (Bot.), a European trailing species of bramble ( Rubus saxatilis). Stone-break. [Cf. G. steinbrech.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Saxifraga; saxifrage. Stone bruise, a sore spot on the bottom of the foot, from a bruise by a stone. Stone canal. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Sand canal, under Sand. Stone cat (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small fresh-water North American catfishes of the genus Noturus. They have sharp pectoral spines with which they inflict painful wounds. Stone coal, hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal. Stone coral (Zo["o]l.), any hard calcareous coral. Stone crab. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. A large crab ( Menippe mercenaria) found on the southern coast of the United States and much used as food.

    2. A European spider crab ( Lithodes maia). Stone crawfish (Zo["o]l.), a European crawfish ( Astacus torrentium), by many writers considered only a variety of the common species ( A. fluviatilis). Stone curlew. (Zo["o]l.)

      1. A large plover found in Europe ( Edicnemus crepitans). It frequents stony places. Called also thick-kneed plover or bustard, and thick-knee.

      2. The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]

    3. The willet. [Local, U.S.] Stone crush. Same as Stone bruise, above. Stone eater. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Stone borer, above. Stone falcon (Zo["o]l.), the merlin. Stone fern (Bot.), a European fern ( Asplenium Ceterach) which grows on rocks and walls. Stone fly (Zo["o]l.), any one of many species of pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Perla and allied genera; a perlid. They are often used by anglers for bait. The larv[ae] are aquatic. Stone fruit (Bot.), any fruit with a stony endocarp; a drupe, as a peach, plum, or cherry. Stone grig (Zo["o]l.), the mud lamprey, or pride. Stone hammer, a hammer formed with a face at one end, and a thick, blunt edge, parallel with the handle, at the other, -- used for breaking stone. Stone hawk (Zo["o]l.), the merlin; -- so called from its habit of sitting on bare stones. Stone jar, a jar made of stoneware. Stone lily (Paleon.), a fossil crinoid. Stone lugger. (Zo["o]l.) See Stone roller, below. Stone marten (Zo["o]l.), a European marten ( Mustela foina) allied to the pine marten, but having a white throat; -- called also beech marten. Stone mason, a mason who works or builds in stone. Stone-mortar (Mil.), a kind of large mortar formerly used in sieges for throwing a mass of small stones short distances. Stone oil, rock oil, petroleum. Stone parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ( Seseli Labanotis). See under Parsley. Stone pine. (Bot.) A nut pine. See the Note under Pine, and Pi[~n]on. Stone pit, a quarry where stones are dug. Stone pitch, hard, inspissated pitch. Stone plover. (Zo["o]l.)

      1. The European stone curlew.

      2. Any one of several species of Asiatic plovers of the genus Esacus; as, the large stone plover ( E. recurvirostris).

      3. The gray or black-bellied plover. [Prov. Eng.]

    4. The ringed plover.

    5. The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] Also applied to other species of limicoline birds. Stone roller. (Zo["o]l.)

      1. An American fresh-water fish ( Catostomus nigricans) of the Sucker family. Its color is yellowish olive, often with dark blotches. Called also stone lugger, stone toter, hog sucker, hog mullet.

      2. A common American cyprinoid fish ( Campostoma anomalum); -- called also stone lugger. Stone's cast, or Stone's throw, the distance to which a stone may be thrown by the hand; as, they live a stone's throw from each other. Stone snipe (Zo["o]l.), the greater yellowlegs, or tattler. Stone toter. (Zo["o]l.)

        1. See Stone roller (a), above.

        2. A cyprinoid fish ( Exoglossum maxillingua) found in the rivers from Virginia to New York. It has a three-lobed lower lip; -- called also cutlips.

          To leave no stone unturned, to do everything that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.

Stone

Stone \Stone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoning.] [From Stone, n.: cf. AS. st?nan, Goth. stainjan.]

  1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

    And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
    --Acts vii. 59.

  2. To make like stone; to harden.

    O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.
    --Shak.

  3. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

  4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

  5. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stone

Old English stan, used of common rocks, precious gems, concretions in the body, memorial stones, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (cognates: Old Norse steinn, Danish steen, Old Saxon sten, Old Frisian sten, Dutch steen, Old High German stein, German Stein, Gothic stains), from PIE *stoi-no-, suffixed form of root *stai- "stone," also "to thicken, stiffen" (cognates: Sanskrit styayate "curdles, becomes hard;" Avestan stay- "heap;" Greek stear "fat, tallow," stia, stion "pebble;" Old Church Slavonic stena, Russian stiena "wall").\n

\nSense of "testicle" is from late Old English. The British measure of weight (usually equal to 14 pounds) is from late 14c., originally a specific stone. Stone-fruit, one with a pit, is from 1520s. Stone's throw for "a short distance" is attested from 1580s. Stone Age is from 1864. To kill two birds with one stone is first attested 1650s. To leave no stone unturned is from 1540s.

stone

"made of stone," Old English (which also had stænan "stonen"); see stone (n.). As an intensifying adjective recorded from 1935, first recorded in black slang, probably from earlier use in phrases like stone blind (late 14c., literally "blind as a stone"), stone deaf, stone-cold (1590s), etc. Stone cold sober dates from 1937.

stone

c.1200, "to pelt with stones," from stone (n.). From c.1600 as "to fit with stones;" 1630s as "to free from stones" (of fruit, etc.). Related: Stoned; stoning.

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Wiktionary
stone

  1. 1 constructed of stone. 2 Having the appearance of stone. 3 Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones. 4 (context AAVE English) (non-gloss definition: Used as an intensifier). adv. 1 As a stone (qualifier: used with following adjective). 2 (context slang English) absolutely, completely (qualifier: used with following adjective). n. (context uncountable English) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones. 2 (context transitive English) To remove a stone from (fruit et

  3. ). 3 (context intransitive English) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc. 4 (context transitive slang English) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (qualifier: Usually in passive)

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WordNet
stone

adj. of any of various dull tannish-gray colors

stone

  1. n. 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"

stone

  1. v. 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]

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Gazetteer
Stone -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 28658
Housing Units (2000): 16241
Land area (2000): 463.224255 sq. miles (1199.745263 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 47.681883 sq. miles (123.495506 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 510.906138 sq. miles (1323.240769 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.714982 N, 93.457028 W
Headwords:
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Stone, MO
Stone County
Stone County, MO
Stone -- U.S. County in Mississippi
Population (2000): 13622
Housing Units (2000): 5343
Land area (2000): 445.365748 sq. miles (1153.491942 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.705208 sq. miles (7.006457 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 448.070956 sq. miles (1160.498399 sq. km)
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 30.796000 N, 89.129526 W
Headwords:
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Stone, MS
Stone County
Stone County, MS
Stone -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 11499
Housing Units (2000): 5715
Land area (2000): 606.592101 sq. miles (1571.066263 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.835784 sq. miles (7.344646 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 609.427885 sq. miles (1578.410909 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.874106 N, 92.169912 W
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Stone (unit)

The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) is an English and imperial unit of weight now equal to 14 pounds (6.35029318 kg).

England and other Germanic-speaking countries of northern Europe formerly used various standardized "stones" for trade, with their values ranging from about 5 to 40 local pounds (roughly 3 to 15 kg) depending on the location and objects weighed. The United Kingdom's imperial system adopted the wool stone of 14 pounds in 1835. With the advent of metrication, Europe's various "stones" were superseded by or adapted to the kilogram from the mid-19th century on. The stone continues in customary use in Britain and Ireland for measuring body weight, but was prohibited for commercial use in the UK by the Weights and Measures Act of 1985.

Stone (band)

Stone is a thrash metal band formed in Kerava, Finland in the mid-1980s. They released four albums and one live album during the late 1980s and early 1990s, before disbanding in 1991 to pursue different musical directions. Stone reunited to play a final set of concerts in 2000, but parted ways again soon afterwards. In 2008, Stone made five "re-union"/comeback appearances. They reunited again in March 2013 for select shows in order to promote their new box set. The band is still active as of March 2014.

Despite their rather short career, Stone's legacy has provided inspiration for many of the countless metal bands who emerged during the popularity explosion of the genre during the 1990s. Perhaps the most notable of these bands is Children of Bodom, whose lead guitarist Alexi Laiho credits former Stone member Roope Latvala as a major influence on his playing. Latvala himself would later join Children of Bodom as a session player and eventually permanent guitarist after the departure of Alexander Kuoppala and also played alongside Laiho in the now defunct Sinergy.

Stone (UK Parliament constituency)

Stone is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 recreation by Bill Cash, a Conservative.

Stone (Marvel Comics)

Stone is the name of a number of fictional comic book characters appearing in books published by Marvel Comics.

Stone (surname)

Stone is a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin.

Stone (comics)

Stone, in comics, may refer to:

  • Stone (Marvel Comics), a number of Marvel Comics characters
  • STONe, a title from Tokyopop
  • Tyler Stone (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • John Stone (comics), a character from Wildstorm's Planetary
  • Mike Stone, a Marvel character using the name Sunturion

Comic creators with the surname Stone:

  • Chic Stone, America comics artist
  • Dave Stone, British writer

It may also refer to:

  • Stone Boy, a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes
  • Stone Soup (comic strip)
  • Stonecutter (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Stonewall (comics), a Marvel Comics character
Stone (1974 film)

Stone is a 1974 Australian biker film written, directed and produced by Sandy Harbutt. It was a low budget movie by company Hedon Productions

Police officer Stone goes undercover with the Gravediggers outlaw motorcycle gang, to find out who is murdering their members, one by one.

The film stars Ken Shorter and features Rebecca Gilling, Bill Hunter and Helen Morse. The film's soundtrack was composed by Billy Green and featured some members of his group Sanctuary. Motorcycles featured include the legendary Kawasaki Z1(900). Stone initially rides a Norton.

The promotional trailer features narration by radio and media personality John Laws. The film was featured in the documentary, Not Quite Hollywood, in which Quentin Tarantino enthuses about his admiration for the film.

Stone (novel)

Stone, published in 2002, is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts.

Stone (Chinese mass)
Stone (manga)

is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Sin-Ichi Hiromoto. Kodansha released the two bound volumes of the manga on April 23, 2002 and August 23, 2002, respectively.

The manga is licensed for an English-language release in North America be Tokyopop. Tokyopop released the two bound volumes of the manga on September 7, 2004 and December 7, 2004, respectively.

Stone (2010 film)

Stone is a 2010 American crime thriller film directed by John Curran and starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich. Most of the filming was done in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Stone (G.I. Joe)

Stone is the name of three different fictional characters from G.I. Joe, the line of military-themed toys by Hasbro. Two Lieutenants and a Sergeant, each one is featured in a different continuity, G.I. Joe Extreme, G.I. Joe: Sigma 6, (appearing in both the animated series and comic books) and He is portrayed by Brendan Fraser in the live-action movie film.

Stone (album)

Stone is the debut album from Finnish thrash metal band Stone. It was originally released in 1988, and remastered and re-issued in 2003. It was re-released again in 2009, bundled with No Anaesthesia! in a 2 CD set. Several singles were released from the album.

Stone (disambiguation)

A stone is a small piece of rock.

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Stone (TV series)

Stone is an American police drama that aired on ABC on Monday nights between January 14 and March 17, 1980. The series was a Stephen J. Cannell Productions in association with Gerry Productions, Inc. and Universal Television (it was Cannell's last series before he went independent) and was created by Cannell, Richard Levinson and William Link.

Stone (1751 Kent cricketer)

Stone (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket matches for Kent in 1751.

Stone (2012 film)

Stone (, translit. ''Kamen' '') is a 2012 Russian dramatic thriller directed by Vyacheslav Kaminsky (In English-speaking countries it was released as Orphan). It is based on the 2009 novel Do not live (, translit. ''Ne zhit' '') by Yurii Brigadir.

The film was released in January 19, 2012 in the International premier, but was pre-screened in mid-December 2011 in some movie theaters in Russia. The film was Released on DVD In February 16, 2012.

When a well-known businessman's 7-year-old son is kidnapped, it turns out that the mysterious kidnapper does not need any ransom, and his demand to the father is to commit suicide. For the next day he must decide who will die of the two: his child or himself...

Stone (singer)

Annie Gautrat, better known by her stage name Stone (born in Paris on 31 July 1947) is a French singer and actor, and very notably part of the musical duo Stone et Charden with her then-husband Éric Charden. the duo were famous in the 1970s with many hits in France and internationally.

In 1966, Gautrat (Stone) was taking part in the "Miss Beatnik" competition where Éric Charden was a member of the jury. They were acquainted after the competition and got married the same year. Already having separate musical careers, they decided to form the duo known as Stone et Charden in 1971. They became hugely popular "L'Avventura" in 1972 and "Made in Normandie" in 1973.

She also took part in the French musical comedy Mayflower written by Guy Bontempelli and music composed by Charden. Other actors included Pascale Rivault, Christine Delaroche, Patrick Topaloff, Gregory Ken, Roland Magdane, Roger Miremont and Mario d'Alba.

Soon artistic, mediatic and family tensions resulted in a divorce and break-up of the duo in 1975 with each member pursuing a separate sole musical career. Éric Charden married Pascale Rivault, whereas Stone later married actor Mario d'Alba with whom she had 2 children, Martin and Daisy.

In the early 1980s, she played in Le Plus beau métier du monde besides Charlotte Julian. The duo Stone et Charden reunited at the end of the 1990s taking part in some television shows and galas. A compilation of their songs was released in 1997. They also took part in the tour "Âge tendre et Têtes de bois" in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Besides singing, she pursued a career in acting in theater most notably in Les 3 Jeanne and Les monologues du vagin, the French-language adaptation of '' The Vagina Monologues.

Both her and her previous husband Éric Charden of Stone et Charden days were decorated with the honorable Legion of Honour (in French Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur) on 1 January 2012 just months before the death of Éric Charden.

Stone (Alice in Chains song)

"Stone" is the second single by American rock band Alice in Chains from their 2013 album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here. The song reached the top of the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. A music video has been released for the song. According to Graham Hartmann writing for Loudwire, "the new single [...] has its fair share of sludge [...], further delving into a dark and unnerving side of alternative rock and atmospheric metal."

Stone (Cyrus Villanueva song)

"Stone" is the debut and winner's single by Cyrus, the series seven winner of The X Factor Australia. It was released digitally on 24 November 2015 as the lead single from his self-titled debut album. The song debuted at number four on the ARIA Singles Chart. The music video was released on 12 December 2015.

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Usage examples of "stone".

Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.

Though the bridge of stone and timber had washed away centuries before, the abutments still remained.

There I drank it, my feet resting on acanthus, my eyes wandering from sea to mountain, or peering at little shells niched in the crumbling surface of the sacred stone.

Stone, call up the druggist, repeat the number to him, and ask if it calls for your aconitine prescription.

A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone.

Sheets of immeasurable fire, and veins Of gold and stone, and adamantine iron.

I recognized that voice: It was Aden Fiske, who was the head of the Stone Harbor Historical Society and manager of the Chandler House site.

Was Aden really doing what I thought he was doing, essentially establishing me as the goto person for conducting archaeological research in Stone Harbor?

The middle part of the road was raised into a terrace which commanded the adjacent country, consisted of several strata of sand, gravel, and cement, and was paved with large stones, or, in some places near the capital, with granite.

I am adoring, what are they but idols of stone without speech or feeling?

The description of the black forest with the evil stone, and of the terrible cosmic adumbrations when the horror is finally extirpated, will repay one for wading through the very gradual action and plethora of Scottish dialect.

Instinctively we fall flat on our stomachs and wait for the hail of stones which tear a few holes in our aerofoil, but we are unscathed.

So the aerolites, or glacial boulders, or polished stone weapons of an extinct race, which looked like aerolites, were the children of Ouranos the heaven, and had souls in them.

You may trace a common motive and force in the pyramid-builders of the earliest recorded antiquity, in the evolution of Greek architecture, and in the sudden springing up of those wondrous cathedrals of the twelfth and following centuries, growing out of the soil with stem and bud and blossom, like flowers of stone whose seeds might well have been the flaming aerolites cast over the battlements of heaven.

Angband he set him in a chair of stone upon a high place of Thangorodrim, from which he could see afar the land of Hithlum in the west and the lands of Beleriand in the south.