stone

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stone
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Meanings
noun
  • hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material.
    E.g. the houses are built of stone
  • a piece of stone shaped for a purpose, especially one of commemoration, ceremony, or demarcation.
    E.g. a memorial stone
  • a hard seed in a cherry, plum, peach, and some other fruits.
  • a unit of weight equal to 14 lb (6.35 kg).
    E.g. I weighed 10 stone
  • a natural shade of whitish or brownish-grey.
    E.g. stone stretch trousers
verb
  • throw stones at.
    E.g. three vehicles were stoned and torched
  • remove the stone from (a fruit).
  • build, face, or pave with stone.
    E.g. the honey-stoned, eighteenth-century city

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