Synonyms: stone
Definition: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
Usage: he wanted a special stone to mark the site
Similar words: building material
Definition: material used for constructing buildings
Synonyms: stone
Definition: a lack of feeling or expression or movement
Usage: he must have a heart of stone; her face was as hard as stone
Similar words: coldness, chilliness, coolness, iciness, frigidity, frigidness
Definition: a lack of affection or enthusiasm
Usage: a distressing coldness of tone and manner
Definition: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
Usage: he threw a rock at me
Similar words: natural object
Definition: an object occurring naturally; not made by man
Synonyms: Stone, Edward Durell Stone
Definition: United States architect (1902-1978)
Similar words: architect, designer
Definition: someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
Synonyms: Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone
Definition: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
Similar words: jurist, legal expert
Definition: a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations
Synonyms: I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone, Stone
Definition: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
Similar words: journalist
Definition: a writer for newspapers and magazines
Synonyms: Stone, Lucy Stone
Definition: United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
Similar words: libber, feminist, women's liberationist, women's rightist
Definition: a supporter of feminism
Similar words: suffragist
Definition: an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
Synonyms: Oliver Stone, Stone
Definition: United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
Similar words: film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker
Definition: a producer of motion pictures
Synonyms: Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone, Harlan Stone
Definition: United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
Similar words: chief justice
Definition: the judge who presides over a supreme court
Synonyms: endocarp, stone, pit
Definition: the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
Usage: you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
Similar words: seed vessel, pericarp
Definition: the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary
Synonyms: stone
Definition: an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
Usage: a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone
Similar words: avoirdupois unit
Definition: any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights
Definition: material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
Usage: that mountain is solid rock; stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries
Similar words: material, stuff
Definition: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
Usage: coal is a hard black material; wheat is the stuff they use to make bread
Synonyms: gem, gemstone, stone
Definition: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
Usage: he had the gem set in a ring for his wife; she had jewels made of all the rarest stones
Similar words: crystal
Definition: a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure
Definition: remove the pits from
Usage: pit plums and cherries
Similar words: remove, withdraw, take, take away
Definition: remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
Usage: remove a threat; remove a wrapper; Remove the dirty dishes from the table; take the gun from your pocket; This machine withdraws heat from the environment
Definition: kill by throwing stones at
Usage: People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
Similar words: kill
Definition: cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
Usage: This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank; The farmer killed a pig for the holidays
Synonyms: stone
Definition: of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
Similar words: chromatic
Definition: being or having or characterized by hue