| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | stow'n |
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| Rhymes | acetone, allophone, alone, and 122 more rhymes in own at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Of any of various dull tannish-gray colors. |
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| Similar to | chromatic |
| Meaning | A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter. |
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| Synonyms | rock |
| Narrower | achondrite; bedrock; boulder, bowlder; calculus, concretion; chondrite; clastic rock; crystal, crystallization; intrusion; outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop; pebble; petrifaction; sill; stepping stone; tor; wall rock; whinstone, whin; xenolith |
| Broader | natural object |
| Verbs | stone |
| Meaning | Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust. |
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| Examples | "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" |
| Synonyms | rock |
| Narrower | quartzite; road metal; sedimentary rock; sial; sima; metamorphic rock; gravel, crushed rock; caliche; shingling; pumice, pumice stone; aphanite; claystone; dolomite; emery stone, emery rock; pudding stone, conglomerate; fieldstone; greisen; tufa, calc-tufa; magma; igneous rock; limestone; marble |
| Broader | material, stuff |
| Substances | mineral |
| Adjectives | epilithic; lithic |
| Verbs | stone |
| Meaning | Building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose. |
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| Examples | "he wanted a special stone to mark the site" |
| Narrower | ashlar; Blarney Stone; capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher; cornerstone; cornerstone; foundation stone; gravestone, headstone, tombstone; grindstone; hearthstone; millstone; monolith; paving stone; springer, impost; stele, stela; whetstone |
| Broader | building material |
| Meaning | A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry. |
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| Examples | "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" |
| Synonyms | gem, gemstone |
| Part of | jewelry, jewellery |
| Narrower | cabochon; opaque gem; transparent gem |
| Broader | crystal |
| Meaning | The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed. |
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| Examples | "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking" |
| Synonyms | pit, endocarp |
| Narrower | peach pit; cherry stone |
| Broader | pericarp, seed vessel |
| Verbs | stone |
| Meaning | An avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body. Equal to 14 pounds. |
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| Examples | "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone" |
| Part of | quarter |
| Parts | pound, lb |
| Region | United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Broader | avoirdupois unit |
| Meaning | United States filmmaker (born in 1946). |
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| Synonyms | Oliver Stone |
| Broader | film maker, filmmaker, film producer, movie maker |
| Meaning | United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893). |
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| Synonyms | Lucy Stone |
| Broader | feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber; suffragist |
| Meaning | United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989). |
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| Synonyms | I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone |
| Broader | journalist |
| Meaning | United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946). |
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| Synonyms | Harlan Fiske Stone |
| Broader | jurist, legal expert |
| Meaning | United States architect (1902-1978). |
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| Synonyms | Edward Durell Stone |
| Broader | architect, designer |
| Meaning | A lack of feeling or expression or movement. |
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| Examples | "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" |
| Broader | coldness, coolness, frigidity |
| Meaning | Kill by throwing stones at. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
| Model | They want to stone the prisoners |
| Examples | "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran" |
| Synonyms | lapidate |
| Broader | kill |
| Nouns | stone; stoner; stone; stoning |
| Meaning | Remove the pits from. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | pit |
| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw |
| Nouns | stone |