stone
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Definitions & Usage
(uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
(countable, geology) A piece of such material: a block of stone, rock or a pebble.
A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
(British) A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
(printing, historical) 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.
Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
(African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
(LGBTQ, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
As a stone (used with following adjective).
(slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
(transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
(transitive) To wall or wall up with stones.
(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
(intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
(transitive, slang) Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
(intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.”
— c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:
“The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre.”
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:1:
“It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.”
— 1858, Edward Thornton, A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East India Company and of the Native States on the Continent of India, W. H. Allen & Co., page 22: