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word stone
definition
noun
Stone is a hard solid substance found in the ground and often used for building houses.
He could not tell whether the floor was wood or stone.
People often don't appreciate that marble is a natural stone.
...stone walls.
A stone is a small piece of rock that is found on the ground.
He removed a stone from his shoe.
The crowd began throwing stones.
A stone is a large piece of stone put somewhere in memory of a person or event, or as a religious symbol .
The monument consists of a circle of gigantic stones.
You can refer to a jewel as a stone .
...a diamond ring with three stones.
A stone is a small hard ball of minerals and other substances which sometimes forms in a person's kidneys or gall bladder .
He had kidney stones.
The stone in a plum, cherry, or other fruit is the large hard seed in the middle of it.
A stone is a measurement of weight, especially the weight of a person, equal to 14 pounds or 6.35 kilograms.
I weighed around 16 stone.
verb
If you stone a fruit, you remove its stone.
Then stone the fruit and process the plums to a puree.
If people stone someone or something, they throw stones at them.
Youths burned cars and stoned police.
A post office was set on fire and vehicles were stoned by looters.
inflections stonesstoningstoned
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