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英英字典: Stone


KK Pronunciation

〔 ston 〕

Pronunciation

〔 stoun 〕


Overview of noun stone

The noun stone has 13 senses


  • rock, stone -- (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me")

  • 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")

  • 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")

  • 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")

  • 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")

  • 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")

  • Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone -- (United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946))

  • Stone, Oliver Stone -- (United States filmmaker (born in 1946))

  • Stone, Lucy Stone -- (United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893))

  • Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone -- (United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989))

  • Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone -- (United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946))

  • Stone, Edward Durell Stone -- (United States architect (1902-1978))

  • stone -- (a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone")


Overview of verb stone

The verb stone has 2 senses


  • stone, lapidate -- (kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock")

  • pit, stone -- (remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries")


Overview of adj stone

The adj stone has 1 sense


  • stone -- (of any of various dull tannish or grey colors)

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