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stone
English
- 🔊 of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 a lack of feeling or expression or movement“he must have a heart of stone”
- 🔊 United States architect (1902-1978)
- 🔊 United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
- 🔊 United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
- 🔊 United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
- 🔊 United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
- 🔊 United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body“a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone”
- 🔊 a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter“he threw a rock at me”
- 🔊 material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust“that mountain is solid rock”
- 🔊 a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry“he had the gem set in a ring for his wife”
- 🔊 kill by throwing stones at“People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock”
- 🔊 remove the pits from“pit plums and cherries”
Spanish
- 🔊 cálculo stone
- 🔊 pétreo stone
- 🔊 saxo stone
- 🔊 arenilla stone, gallstone
- 🔊 hueso stone, pit (the central part of some fruits, consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer (like those of peach, olive, avocado or mango))