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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.Examples: "Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot."; "The first day of the weeke, commeth Mary Magdalene earely when it was yet darke, vnto the Sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the Sepulchre."; "It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it."Synonyms: rock, rockuncountable
2. (countable, geology) A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.countable
3. (British) A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.Examples: "British people measure their weight in stones and pounds. I weigh eight stone five."; "Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds."; "Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones."Synonyms: petraBritishcountableuncountable
4. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.Examples: "Near-synonym: pip"; "a peach stone"Synonyms: pit, seed pit, ;, pyrena, pyrene, pip, pitcountableuncountable
5. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.Examples: "The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth."Synonyms: calculuscountableuncountable
6. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.countableuncountable
adj (English)
1. (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.Examples: "She is one stone fox."; "Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that."; "Of course the Torah rejects (*some*) sexual acts between members of the same sex. And of course it doesn't condemn gays and lesbians. Someone who doesn't realize that is a stone bigot to begin with."not-comparable
2. (LGBTQ, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.Examples: "stone butch"; "stone femme"; "Lately I've read these stories by women who are so angry with stone lovers, even mocking their passion when they finally give way to trust, to being touched."Antonyms: pillow princessnot-comparableslang
adv (English)
1. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).Examples: "I went stone crazy after she left."; "I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind."not-comparableslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.Examples: "stoned to death"; "She got stoned to death after they found her."; "55 But hee being full of the holy Ghost, looked vp stedfastly into heauen, and saw the glory of God, and Iesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 And said, Behold, I see the heauens opened, and the Sonne of man standing on the right hand of God. 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their eares, and ran vpon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans feete, whose name was Saul. 59 And they stoned Steuen, calling vpon God, and saying, Lord Iesus receiue my spirit. 60 And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe."Synonyms: lapidate, steantransitive
2. (transitive) To wall or wall up with stones.Examples: "[…] and since it was a rule of the French troops not to be a burden on the people along their route it could be that the advance guard dug and stoned the well for the troop's own special use."Synonyms: steantransitive
3. (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).Synonyms: destone#Verb, pit#Verbtransitive
4. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.intransitive
5. (transitive, slang) Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)slangtransitive
6. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.Examples: "I was stoning the whole of today."; "Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning."; "The Marina Barrage is a reservoir, but everyone goes there because the spacious greenery at the top is the perfect place for stoning, which is Singlish for hanging out and chilling."Synonyms: chill, chillax, chill out, hang out, rilek, daydream, veg outSingaporeintransitiveslang
name (English)
1. (countable) An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.Examples: "Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment."countable
2. (countable) A male given name.countable
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