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stones

 
Noun stone has 12 senses
  1. rock, stone - a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
    --1 is a kind of natural object
    --1 has particulars:
     achondrite; bedrock; boulder, bowlder; calculus, concretion; chondrite; clastic rock; crystal, crystallization; intrusion; outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop; pebble; petrifaction; sill; stepping stone; tor; wall rock; whinstone, whin; xenolith
    Derived form: verb stone1
  2. rock, stone - material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
    --2 is a kind of material, stuff
    --2 has substances: mineral
    --2 has particulars:
     quartzite; road metal; sedimentary rock; sial; sima; metamorphic rock; gravel, crushed rock; caliche; shingling; pumice, pumice stone; aphanite; claystone; dolomite; emery stone, emery rock; pudding stone, conglomerate; fieldstone; greisen; tufa, calc-tufa; magma; igneous rock; limestone; marble
    Derived form: verb stone1
  3. stone - building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
    --3 is a kind of
    building material
    --3 has particulars:
     ashlar; Blarney Stone; capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher; cornerstone; cornerstone; foundation stone; gravestone, headstone, tombstone; grindstone; hearthstone; millstone; monolith; paving stone; springer, impost; stele, stela; whetstone
  4. gem, gemstone, stone - a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
    --4 is a kind of crystal
    --4 is a part of jewelry, jewellery
    --4 has particulars: cabochon; opaque gem; transparent gem
  5. stone, pit, endocarp - the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
    --5 is a kind of pericarp, seed vessel
    --5 has particulars: peach pit; cherry stone
    Derived form: verb stone2
  6. stone - an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
    --6 is a kind of
    avoirdupois unit
    --6 is a part of quarter
    --6 has parts: pound, lb
  7. Stone, Oliver Stone - United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
    --7 is a kind of film maker, filmmaker, film producer, movie maker
  8. Stone, Lucy Stone - United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
    --8 is a kind of feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber; suffragist
  9. Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone - United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
    --9 is a kind of journalist
  10. Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone - United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)
    --10 is a kind of jurist, legal expert
  11. Stone, Edward Durell Stone - United States architect (1902-1978)
    --11 is a kind of architect, designer
  12. stone - a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
    --12 is a kind of
    coldness, coolness, frigidity
Verb stone has 2 senses
  1. stone, lapidate - kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"
    --1 is one way to kill
    Derived forms: noun stone2, noun stone1, noun stoner1, noun stoning1
    Sample sentence:
    They want to stone the prisoners
  2. pit, stone - remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
    --2 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
    Derived form: noun stone5
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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