Definitions for stone

Definitions for (noun) stone

Main entry: 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


Main entry: 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


Main entry: rock, stone

Definition: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

Usage: he threw a rock at me


Main entry: Stone, Edward Durell Stone

Definition: United States architect (1902-1978)


Main entry: Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone

Definition: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)


Main entry: I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone, Stone

Definition: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)


Main entry: Stone, Lucy Stone

Definition: United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)


Main entry: Oliver Stone, Stone

Definition: United States filmmaker (born in 1946)


Main entry: 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)


Main entry: 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


Main entry: 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


Main entry: rock, stone

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


Main entry: 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


Definitions for (verb) stone

Main entry: stone, pit

Definition: remove the pits from

Usage: pit plums and cherries


Main entry: stone, lapidate

Definition: kill by throwing stones at

Usage: People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock


Definitions for (adj) stone

Main entry: stone

Definition: of any of various dull tannish or grey colors


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