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stone
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[ noun ] (geology) a lump of hard consolidated mineral matter
Synonyms Examples "he threw a rock at me" Used in print (Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)An old shipwreck , a high dam , an old covered bridge , a place to find agates or other semi-precious stones or a place to pan gold , etcetera may be of interest . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Somebody heaved a stone . Before he could duck , another stone struck him . |
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[ noun ] building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
Examples "he wanted a special stone to mark the site" Used in print (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)John leaned upon the stone balustrade . The slow tapping of a cane on the stone steps coming up to the tower interrupted his reverie . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in . |
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[ noun ] (geology) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
Synonyms Examples "that mountain is solid rock" "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)In France he had puzzled the meaning of the great stone monuments men had thrown up to the sky , and always as he wandered , he felt a stranger to their exultation . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)He was not stone . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)He had lived for almost thirty years in this same stone farmhouse with the same wife , a remarkably childish thing in itself ; he rose at half past six every morning , made himself some French coffee , had his corn_flakes and more coffee , smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday 's Herald_Tribune and yesterday 's Pittsburgh_Gazette , then put_on his high-topped farmer 's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath , you abstracted seventeen ivory , metal , wood , and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin , two snuffboxes , and a jade handled magnifying_glass . In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked_up in Bombay , and occasionally , to make merit , my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a_few pennies in its lap . |
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[ verb ] kill by throwing stones at
Synonyms Examples "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran" Used in print (Guideposts BR-E01. Mr. America, 4:6 (November, 1961)...)My grandfather had been stoned because of his editorials . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (film,performing arts) United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 158
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[ noun ] a lack of feeling or expression or movement
Examples "he must have a heart of stone" "her face was as hard as stone" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (color) of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
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[ noun ] an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
Examples "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (law) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
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[ noun ] (architecture) United States architect (1902-1978)
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[ noun ] (writing,news) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
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[ noun ] (politics) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
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[ noun ] (chemistry) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
Examples "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife" "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (botany) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
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