stone

n.

1. 1. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock.
   2. Such concreted matter of a particular type. Often used in combination: sandstone; soapstone.
2. A small piece of rock.
3. Rock or a piece of rock shaped or finished for a particular purpose, especially:
   1. A piece of rock that is used in construction: a coping stone; a paving stone.
   2. A gravestone or tombstone.
   3. A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone.
   4. A milestone or boundary.
4. A gem or precious stone.
5. Something, such as a hailstone, resembling a stone in shape or hardness.
6. Botany. The hard covering enclosing the seed in certain fruits, such as the cherry, plum, or peach.
7. Pathology. A mineral concretion in an organ, such as the kidney or gallbladder, or other body part; a calculus.
8. pl. stone. (Abbr. st.) A unit of weight in Great Britain, 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms).
9. Printing. A table with a smooth surface on which page forms are composed.

adj.

1. Relating to or made of stone: a stone wall.
2. Made of stoneware or earthenware.
3. Complete; utter: a stone liar.

adv.

Completely; utterly: stone cold; standing stone still.

tr.v., stoned, ston·ing, stones.

1. To hurl or throw stones at, especially to kill with stones.
2. To remove the stones or pits from.
3. To furnish, fit, pave, or line with stones.
4. To rub on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen.
5. Obsolete. To make hard or indifferent.

[Middle English, from Old English stān.]

Flat surface or table originally made of stone, hence the name; used in manual composition to compose type.

Idioms beginning with stone:
stone cold
stone deaf
stone's throw, a

See also cast in stone; cast the first stone; flat (stone) broke; heart of stone; leave no stone unturned; rolling stone gathers no moss; run into a stone wall.

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n

An abrading instrument or tool.

mass BI ⅛ hundredweight = 14 lb (6.350 3~ kg). See hundredweight for scales. For centuries the major unit in the UK for expressing a person's ‘weight’ (with pound the minor), the stone was removed from official UK measures in 1985.The UK Weights and Measures Act 1985 explicitly excluded from use for trade the bushell, cental, chain, drachm, dram, fluid drachm, furlong, grain, hundredweight, ounce apoth., peck, pennyweight, quarter, quintal, rood, scruple, stone, ton, the square mile, cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic yard, and the term ‘metric ton’. However, the legal status of the bushell, fluid drachm, and peck had been repealed, along with all apothecaries' units and troy units other than ounce, by Order in 1970. Besides the remaining BI units and the simple SI units, the Act included the kilometre, decimetre, centimetre and millimetre, the square metre, square decimetre, square centimetre and square millimetre, the hectare and decare along with the are, the cubic metre, cubic decimetre and cubic centimetre, the hectolitre decilitre, centilitre and millilitre, the tonne (or ‘metric tonne’), kilogram, hectogram, milligram and carat (metric). All had been included in the similar Act of 1963, but with some variation of name: -gram was -gramme, decare was dekare, the tonne appeared only as metric ton.

weight, force See gravitational system.

geology A specific particle size, typically between boulder and gravel in size, of diameter 1 to 8 in (25.4 to 203.2 mm).

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Large boulders and prehistoric standing stones often attracted folklore; there were also widespread beliefs about the protective powers of small holed stones, hagstones, snakestones, thunderstones, and geodes called eaglestones. From antiquity through the Middle Ages and up to the 17th century, much was written on the medicinal and magical powers of precious stones, though naturally only the wealthy could make use of them.

The only belief concerning ordinary stones in general was that they grew in the soil and then rose to the surface. This was widely held, as correspondents to N&Q showed on several occasions in the 19th century; many countrymen insisted it was no use having stones picked off one's fields, because the land produced them, and there would soon be as many as ever. This was still being said in Staffordshire in the 1960s. At Blaxhall (Suffolk) a five-ton boulder is a famous local marvel, alleged to have grown from the size of a man's two fists in the course of the 19th century; the Leper Stone outside Newport (Cambridgeshire) and the Hoston Stone at Humberstone (Leicestershire) are said to be rising slowly out of the ground; one tale about the huge Rudston standing stone (Humberside) is that it grew up in a single night (FLS News 26 (1997), 13; 27 (1998), 8; 28 (1998), 6-7). Another theory was that ‘pudding-stone’, a conglomerate of pebbles, was a ‘mother-stone’ or ‘breeding-stone’ from which a number of little pebbles would be born and grow larger.

See also TURNING THE DEVIL'S STONE, HANGMAN's STONE.

Any type of rock that has been selected or processed by cutting, shaping, or sizing for use in building construction or for decorative purposes; see brownstone, cobblestone, dimension stone, fieldstone, flagstone, freestone, granite, limestone, marble, pudding stone, rib vault, rusticated stone, sandstone, soapstone.

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1. a calculus.
2. a unit of weight, equivalent in the English system to 14 lb avoirdupois.

• milk s. — see milk stone.
• s. searcher — see searcher (2).

To convert from stones (British) to:

pound (avoirdupois), multiply by 14.

Convert:  Into:  pound (avoirdupois)

Result:

A single seed surrounded by a large hard shell and covered by pulp. A peach is an example of a stone fruit.

IN BRIEF: Earth matter hardened into a mass.

The poet assures us that "Stone walls do not a prison make," but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets. — Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Dansk (Danish)
n. - sten, ædelsten, vægtenhed
v. tr. - stene, udstene, udskure
adj. - sten-, af sten
adv. - helt, fuldstændig

idioms:

• a stone's throw    et stenkast
• leave no stone unturned    ikke lade en sten være uvendt/urørt
• set in stone    stenindfatte
• Stone Age    Stenalder
• tablets of stone    stenplader
• throw the first stone    kaste den første sten

Nederlands (Dutch)
steen, pit, rots, edelsteen, gewichtsmaat (ongeveer 6, 35 kg), van steen, volkomen, stenigen, ontpitten, slijpen

Français (French)
n. - pierre, caillou, menhir, stèle, pierre (précieuse), (Bot) noyau, (Méd) calcul, (GB, Mes) = 6,35 kg
v. tr. - lapider, dénoyauter
adj. - de pierre, en pierre, en grès
adv. - de pierre

idioms:

• a stone's throw    à deux pas de
• leave no stone unturned    ne négliger aucun détail
• set in stone    être gravé dans le marbre
• Stone Age    âge de pierre
• tablets of stone    (être gravé) dans le marbre
• throw the first stone    jeter la première pierre

Deutsch (German)
n. - Stein
v. - steinigen, mit Steinen bewerfen, entsteinen
adj. - steinern
adv. - völlig

idioms:

• a stone's throw    einen Steinwurf (entfernt)
• leave no stone unturned    alles dransetzen
• set in stone    in Stein gesetzt
• Stone Age    Steinzeit
• tablets of stone    Steintafeln, fest
• throw the first stone    den ersten Stein werfen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πέτρα, λιθάρι, λίθος, πετράδι, πολύτιμος λίθος, κουκούτσι, (Βρετ.) βάρος 6, 348 χιλιογράμμων
v. - λιθοβολώ, πετροβολώ, ξεκουκουτσιάζω, επιστρώνω με πέτρινες πλάκες
adj. - λίθινος, πέτρινος
adv. - εντελώς, ολοσχερώς

idioms:

• a stone's throw    κοντινή απόσταση, κοντά
• leave no stone unturned    (καθομ.) κάνω τα πάντα, εξαντλώ κάθε προσπάθεια
• set in stone    λιθόκτιστος
• Stone Age    Λίθινη Εποχή
• tablets of stone    λίθινες πλάκες, δέλτοι
• throw the first stone    ρίχνω τον πρώτο λίθο (από το: ο αναμάρτητος πρώτος τον λίθον βαλέτω!)

Italiano (Italian)
lapidare, pietra, nocciolo, mattone, pietroso

idioms:

• a stone's throw    a portata di voce
• leave no stone unturned    fare tutto il possibile
• set in stone    scolpito nel marmo
• Stone Age    età della pietra
• tablets of stone    lapidi
• throw the first stone    gettare la prima pietra

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pedra (f), caroço (m)
v. - apedrejar
adj. - de pedra
adv. - completamente

idioms:

• a stone's throw    perto
• leave no stone unturned    não deixar pedra sobre pedra
• set in stone    ser imutável
• Stone Age    Idade da Pedra (f)
• tablets of stone    lascas de pedra com inscrição
• throw the first stone    atirar a primeira pedra

Русский (Russian)
камень, драгоценный камень, косточка (плода), надгробная плита, градина, жернов, стоун (= 14 фунтов), светло-серый или бежевый цвет, каменная болезнь, каменный, керамический, гончарный, убежденный, побить камнями, облицовывать или мостить камнем, вынимать косточки (из плодов), точить, обтачивать или шлифовать камнем

idioms:

• a stone's throw    поблизости от, рукой подать
• leave no stone unturned    сделать все возможное, ни перед чем не останавливаться
• set in stone    выбитый на камне, незыблемый
• Stone Age    каменный век
• tablets of stone    каменные таблички, незыблемый
• throw the first stone    первым бросить камень, первым осудить

Español (Spanish)
n. - piedra, lápida, grano, hueso, pepita, muela, granizo
v. tr. - apedrear, lapidar
adj. - de piedra, pétreo
adv. - completamente, totalmente

idioms:

• a stone's throw    una distancia corta
• leave no stone unturned    no dejar piedra por mover, revolver Roma con Santiago
• set in stone    montado o engastado en piedra
• Stone Age    Edad de Piedra
• tablets of stone    lápida
• throw the first stone    tirar la primera piedra

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - sten, viktenhet, kärna
v. - stena, kasta sten på, kärna ur (frukt), klä med sten
adj. - sten-
adv. - sten-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
石, 石块, 石头, 纪念碑, 石材, 墓石, 投扔石子, 铺石头, 石的, 石制的, 完全地, 十足地

idioms:

• a stone's throw    一箭之地, 很短的距离
• leave no stone unturned    千方百计, 想方设法
• set in stone    已经决定的事情不能再改
• Stone Age    石器时代
• tablets of stone    石板, 石头的刻写板
• throw the first stone    率先批评或攻击责难

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 石, 石塊, 石頭, 紀念碑, 石材, 墓石
v. tr. - 投扔石子, 鋪石頭
adj. - 石的, 石制的
adv. - 完全地, 十足地

idioms:

• a stone's throw    一箭之地, 很短的距離
• leave no stone unturned    千方百計, 想方設法
• set in stone    已經決定的事情不能再改
• Stone Age    石器時代
• tablets of stone    石板, 石頭的刻寫板
• throw the first stone    率先批評或攻擊責難

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 돌, 돌맹이, 보석
v. tr. - ~에 돌을 던지다, ~에 돌을 쌓다, 씨(핵)를 뽑다
adj. - 돌의, 완전한, 오지 그릇의
adv. - 완전히

idioms:

• a stone's throw    돌을 던지면 닿을 만한 거리
• throw the first stone    먼저 돌을 던지다, ~을 던지다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 石, 石材, 石製の, 宝石, 墓石, 臼石, ひょう, 種, 敷石, こま
adv. - 完全に
v. - 石を投げ付ける, 種を取る

idioms:

• set in stone    ある事を規則にする
• stepping stone    飛石
• Stone Age    石器時代
• tablets of stone    石板
• written in stone    ある事は不文律である。

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حجر, حجر كريم, نواة, وحدة وزن, بلاطه ضريح (فعل) رجم بالحجارة, نزع النوى عن, بلط بالحجارة (صفه) حجري (ظرف) جامدا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אבן, גלעין, אבן-חן, יהלום, מצבה, ברד, יחידת-משקל השווה ל-53.6 ק"ג, צבע חום-אפור‬
v. tr. - ‮סקל, רגם, גלען, הוציא הגלעינים‬
adj. - ‮סקל, רגם, גלען, הוציא הגלעינים‬
adv. - ‮בנוי באבן‬

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