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Stone (noun)
A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
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Stone (noun)
A small piece of stone, a pebble.
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Stone (noun)
A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
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Stone (noun)
A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms
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Stone (noun)
The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
“a peach stone”
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Stone (noun)
A hard, stone-like deposit.
“kidney stone”
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Stone (noun)
A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
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Stone (noun)
A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
“color panel|8A807C”
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Stone (noun)
A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
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Stone (noun)
A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
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Stone (noun)
A mirror, or its glass.
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Stone (noun)
A testicle.
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Stone (noun)
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; also called imposing stone.
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Stone (verb)
To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
“She got stoned to death after they found her.”
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Stone (verb)
To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
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Stone (verb)
To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
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Stone (verb)
To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. Usually in passive
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Stone (verb)
To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
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Stone (verb)
To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
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Stone (adjective)
Constructed of stone.
“stone walls”
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Stone (adjective)
Having the appearance of stone.
“stone pot”
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Stone (adjective)
Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
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Stone (adjective)
Used as an intensifier.
“She is one stone fox.”
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Stone (adjective)
Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
“stone butch; stone femme”
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Stone (adverb)
As a stone used with following adjective.
“My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.”
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Stone (adverb)
Absolutely, completely used with following adjectives.
“I went stone crazy after she left.”
“I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.”
“The Styistics performed a love song titled “I’m Stone in Love with You”.”
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Stone (noun)
hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material
“the houses are built of stone”
“high stone walls”
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Stone (noun)
used in similes and metaphors to refer to weight or lack of feeling, expression, or movement
“the elevator dropped like a stone”
“Isabel stood as if turned to stone”
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Stone (noun)
a small piece of rock found on the ground.
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Stone (noun)
a meteorite made of rock, as opposed to metal.
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Stone (noun)
a calculus; a gallstone or kidney stone.
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Stone (noun)
a piece of stone shaped for a purpose, especially one of commemoration, ceremony, or demarcation
“a memorial stone”
“boundary stones”
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Stone (noun)
a gem or jewel
“a gold ring with a small dark red stone”
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Stone (noun)
short for curling stone
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Stone (noun)
a round piece or counter, originally made of stone, used in various board games, especially the Japanese game of go.
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Stone (noun)
a large flat table or sheet, originally made of stone and now usually of metal, on which pages of type are made up.
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Stone (noun)
a hard seed in a cherry, plum, peach, and some other fruits.
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Stone (noun)
a unit of weight equal to 14 lb (6.35 kg)
“I weighed 10 stone”
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Stone (noun)
a natural shade of whitish or brownish-grey
“stone stretch trousers”
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Stone (verb)
throw stones at
“two people were stoned to death”
“policemen were stoned by the crowd”
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Stone (verb)
remove the stone from (a fruit).
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Stone (verb)
build, face, or pave with stone
“the honey-stoned, eighteenth-century city”