stone
English
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Etymology
From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
See also Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stəʊn/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /stoʊn/
Audio (US): (file) - (New Zealand) IPA(key): /stɐʉn/
- Rhymes: -əʊn
Noun
stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or (as unit of mass) stone)
- (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:
- Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 20:1:
- 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.
- 1858, Edward Thornton, A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East India Company and of the Native States on the Continent of India[1], W. H. Allen & Co., page 22:
- 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.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
- A small piece of stone, a pebble.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 180, column 1:
- […] Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels […]
- (British) A unit of mass 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.
- 1992 October 3, Edwina Currie, Diary:
- Weighed myself at the gym and have hit 10st 8lb, a sure sign of things getting out of control—so I can’t even console myself with a chocolate biscuit.
- (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- a peach stone
- (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- 2016 September 26, James Hamblin, “A Health Benefit of Roller Coasters”, in The Atlantic[2]:
- The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth.
- Synonym: calculus
- Hyponyms: kidney stone, nephrolith, gallstone, cholelith, sialolith, urolith
- (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- stone:
- (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], published 1717, →OCLC, page 434:
- Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye
Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie.
- 2013 November 25, Zayn Malik, “Story of My Life”, in Midnight Memories, Columbia Records; Syco Music:
- It seems to me that when I die / These words will be written on my stone […]
- (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 309, column 1:
- She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone, / Why then ſhe liues.
- (obsolete) A testicle.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 56, column 1:
- […] and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels ſtone?
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 23:1:
- Hee that is wounded in the ſtones, or hath his priuie member cut off, ſhall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
- 1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […] , London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157:
- To make Capons […] ſome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done.
- (printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
- Synonym: imposing stone
- 1965, George Murray, The Madhouse on Madison Street, page 38:
- The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.
Usage notes
- All countable senses use the regular plural stones except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural stone.
Synonyms
- (substance): rock
- (small piece of stone): pebble
- (unit of mass): petra
- (of fruit): pip, pit
- (hard stone-like deposit): calculus
- (curling piece): rock
Descendants
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Verb
stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)
- (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
- She got stoned to death after they found her.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:55–60:
- 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.
- (transitive) To wall with stones.
- 1974, Mathias Peter Harpin, Prophets in the wilderness: a history of Coventry, Rhode Island:
- […] 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.
- (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
- (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
- 2003, Roger, Joy, Vera and Amanda Loh, Facts about Singapore: Differences between Ohio and Singapore:
- I was stoning the whole of today.
- 2011 November 2, Shermaine Ong, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning.
- 2015 April 8, Becky Osawa, Trekking with Becky: Stoning at the Marina Barrage, Singapore:
- 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.
- (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
Synonyms
- (pelt with stones): lapidate
- (do nothing, just relaxing): chill, chillax, chill out, hang out, rilek
- (do nothing, stare into space): daydream, veg out
Translations
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Adjective
stone (not comparable)
- Constructed of stone.
- Synonym: (archaic) stonen
- stone walls
- Having the appearance of stone.
- stone pot
- Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
- She is one stone fox.
- 1994, Andrew H. Vachss, Born Bad: Stories:
- Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that.
- 2000 September 9, Lisa Beth, “Rabbi Shmuli Boteach Refuted”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated[3] (Usenet):
- 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.
- 2001, Andrew H. Vachss, Pain Management:
- “And I got the best metal man in the business going for me, too.” “This job's going to be a stone motherfucker,” Flacco said
- 2009, John Lutz, Night Victims, page 307:
- He might be a stone killer who simply doesn't care if his victim's alive or dead at the time of disfigurement.
- (LGBT, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
- Antonym: pillow princess
- stone butch
- stone femme
- 1993, Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, Los Angeles: Alyson Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 9:
- 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.
- c. 2000, Sonya, “Femme Identity: Stone-Butch/Femme Dynamic, FTM/Femme Dynamic”, in Transensual Femme[4], archived from the original on 2000-05-20:
- My physical preference tends more to very masculine-bodied non-transitioning stone TG butches.
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Adverb
stone (not comparable)
- As a stone (used with following adjective).
- My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
- (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
- I went stone crazy after she left.
- I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
Translations
Derived terms
- Abrasax stone
- adder stone
- alley stone
- altar stone
- altar-stone
- alum stone
- Ancaster stone
- a rolling stone gathers no moss
- Atlas stone
- baking stone
- Balin stone
- Bargate stone
- Bath stone
- beat one's head against a stone wall
- benben stone
- bezoar stone
- Big Stone County
- birthstone
- Black Stone
- blackstone
- Blarney Stone
- blood from a stone
- bluestone
- Bologna stone
- Bolognian stone
- bondstone
- border stone
- bowing stone
- brimstone
- brownstone
- Caen stone
- capstone
- carved in stone
- cast the first stone
- cauterizing stone
- china stone
- cinnamon stone
- Coade stone
- cobblestone
- coping stone
- cornerstone
- corner-stone
- Cotswold stone
- cross-stone
- crystal stone
- Cullen stone
- cultured stone
- curbstone
- curling stone
- dimensional stone
- dimension stone
- dog-stone
- dolostone
- dripping water hollows a stone
- dripstone
- dry stone
- drystone, dry-stone
- dry stone wall
- eaglestone
- Einang stone
- fairy stone
- fieldstone
- firestone
- five stones
- flagstone
- foil stone
- footstone
- foundation stone
- Four Shire Stone
- free-stone
- freestone
- gallstone
- gall stone
- gemstone
- get blood from a stone
- get blood out of a stone
- gibber stone
- gizzard stone
- Goa stone
- go stone
- grainstone
- grape-stone
- gravestone
- greenstone
- grinding stone
- grindle-stone
- grindstone
- guard stone
- hailstone
- hair stone
- hairstone
- hair stone
- hard as stone
- Headington stone
- headstone
- hearthstone
- heart of stone
- holystone
- Horsham stone
- humming stone
- hunger stone
- infernal stone
- inkstone
- Jew's stone
- kerbstone
- kerb stone
- kerb-stone
- keystone
- kidney stone
- kill two birds with one stone
- Labrador stone
- leave no stone unturned
- let he who is without sin cast the first stone
- let him that is without sin cast the first stone
- let him who is without sin cast the first stone
- limestone
- lime-stone
- lithographic stone
- living stone
- lizard-stone
- lodestone
- Lydian stone
- made of stone
- mani stone
- markstone
- mark with a white stone
- milestone
- millstone
- mill-stone
- moa stone
- moonstone
- mort stone
- not leave a stone unturned
- nunuz stone
- off stone
- oilstone
- oxygen stone
- paper scissors stone
- paving stone
- people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
- perpent stone
- Petoskey stone
- philosopher's stone
- philosophers' stone
- Philosopher's Stone, Philosophers' Stone
- Phrygian stone
- pipestone
- pizza stone
- plaster-stone
- Portland stone
- precious stone
- pudding stone
- pumice stone
- pumy stone
- Purbeck stone
- putting stone
- quernstone
- rai stone
- reading stone
- redstone
- rhinestone
- ringstone
- rolling stone
- Rosetta Stone
- rotten stone
- rubbing stone
- runestone
- Samian stone
- sandstone
- Saracen's stone
- Saracen stone
- Sarsden stone
- satin stone
- scissors paper stone
- screw-stone
- scrying stone
- seal stone
- seeing stone
- set in stone
- sharpening stone
- shew stone
- show stone
- show-stone
- sink like a stone
- sling-stone
- slingstone
- sling stone
- slocking stone
- Smithfield stone
- soapstone
- sorcerer's stone
- sounding stone
- sounding-stone
- specular stone
- spleen stone
- staddle stone
- standing stone
- standing stones
- steddle stone
- stepping stone
- stepping-stone
- sticks and stones
- sticks and stones may break my bones
- Stone Age
- stone-age
- stone age
- stone baby
- stone bass
- stone-blind
- stone boat
- stone boiling
- stone bow
- stone bramble
- stone brash
- stonebreaker
- Stonebridge
- stone broke
- stone-broke
- stone bubble
- stone butch
- stone canal
- stonecast
- stone centipede
- stonechat
- stone circle
- stone coal
- stone-cold sober
- stone-cold, stone cold
- stone colic
- stone coral
- Stone County
- stone crab
- stone cream
- stone cress
- stonecrop
- Stone Cross
- stone curlew
- stonecutter
- stoned
- stone-dead, stone dead
- stone-deaf, stone deaf
- stone editor
- stone-faced
- stone falcon
- stone femme
- stone-fence
- stonefish
- stonefly
- stone frigate
- stone fruit
- stone-ginger
- stoneground, stone-ground
- stone hammer
- stone hands
- stone-hard
- stonehearted
- stone-hearted
- stone-heartedly
- stone-heartedness
- Stonehenge
- stone-horse
- stone jug
- stone-knapper
- stone knapper
- stoneless
- stone lily
- stone-lily
- stone loach
- stone man syndrome
- stone marten
- stonemason
- stone massage
- stone me
- Stone Mills
- stone mint
- stone money
- stone mulching
- stonen
- stone naked
- Stone of Destiny
- stone oil
- stone paper
- stone parsley
- stone paste
- stone-paste
- stone pine
- stone pit
- stone plover
- stoner
- stone-rag
- stoneroller
- stone shoot
- stone skiffing
- stone skimming
- stone skipping
- stone-snipe
- stone soup
- stone's throw
- stone-still
- stone sub
- stone subeditor
- stone tape theory
- stone the crows
- stone-throwing
- stonewall
- stone-wall
- stone wall
- stonewaller
- stoneware
- stonewashed
- stonework
- stonewort
- stone xylophone
- stoneyard
- stony
- stumbling stone
- stumbling-stone
- summer-stone
- swimming stone
- Swiss stone pine
- television stone
- through stone
- through-stone
- throw stones
- throw stones
- thumb stone
- thunderstone
- tombstone
- tongue stone
- tonsil stone
- tool stone
- totem stone
- touchstone
- trone stone
- Turkey stone
- turn to stone
- two birds with one stone
- Tyndall stone
- upping stone
- Venus's hair stone
- waterstone
- Watton-at-Stone
- whetstone
- whinstone
- whiskey stone
- whitestone
- wine stone
- worry stone
- written in stone
- yellowstone
See also
Anagrams
Chinese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
stone
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) stoned; high on drugs, especially cannabis
- 2014, 于日辰(小姓奴), 殘忍的偷戀 Unconditional Love[5]:
- 嘩其實你哋係醉咗定Stone咗?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
stone (plural stones)
- stoned (high on drugs)
Middle English
Noun
stone
- Alternative form of ston
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