bone

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bone
bəʊn Listen
Meanings
noun
  • any of the pieces of hard whitish tissue making up the skeleton in humans and other vertebrates.
    E.g. his injuries included many broken bones
  • the calcified material of which bones consist.
    E.g. an earring of bone
  • the basic or essential framework of something.
    E.g. you need to put some flesh on the bones of your idea
verb
  • remove the bones from (meat or fish) before cooking, serving, or selling.
    E.g. ask your butcher to bone the turkey for you
  • study (a subject) intensively, typically in preparation for something.
    E.g. she boned up on languages she had learned long ago
  • have sex with (someone).

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