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English adjective: stone | |||
| 1. | stone of any of various dull tannish or grey colors | ||
| Similar | chromatic | ||
| Antonyms | achromatic, neutral | ||
English noun: stone | |||
| 1. | stone (object) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | ||
| Samples | He threw a rock at me. | ||
| Synonyms | rock | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | natural object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | achondrite, bedrock, boulder, bowlder, calculus, chondrite, clastic rock, concretion, crystal, crystallization, intrusion, outcrop, outcropping, pebble, petrifaction, rock outcrop, sill, stepping stone, tor, wall rock, whin, whinstone, xenolith | ||
| 2. | stone (artifact) building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose | ||
| Samples | He wanted a special stone to mark the site. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | building material | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ashlar, capstone, copestone, coping stone, cornerstone, cornerstone, foundation stone, gravestone, grindstone, headstone, hearthstone, impost, millstone, monolith, paving stone, springer, stela, stele, stretcher, tombstone, whetstone | ||
| Instance hyponym | Blarney Stone | ||
| 3. | stone (substance) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | ||
| Samples | That mountain is solid rock. Stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries. | ||
| Synonyms | rock | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | material, stuff | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aphanite, calc-tufa, caliche, claystone, conglomerate, crushed rock, dolomite, emery rock, emery stone, fieldstone, gravel, greisen, igneous rock, limestone, magma, marble, matrix, metamorphic rock, pudding stone, pumice, pumice stone, quartzite, road metal, sedimentary rock, shingling, sial, sima, tufa | ||
| Substance holonym | mineral | ||
| 4. | stone (substance) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | ||
| Samples | He had the gem set in a ring for his wife. She had jewels made of all the rarest stones. | ||
| Synonyms | gem, gemstone | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | crystal | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cabochon, opaque gem, transparent gem | ||
| Part meronym | jewellery, jewelry | ||
| 5. | stone (quantity) an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds | ||
| Samples | A heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | avoirdupois unit | ||
| Part holonym | lb, pound | ||
| Part meronym | quarter | ||
| Domain region | Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | ||
| 6. | stone (plant) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | ||
| Samples | You should remove the stones from prunes before cooking. | ||
| Synonyms | endocarp, pit | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pericarp, seed vessel | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cherry stone, peach pit | ||
| 7. | Stone (person) United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946) | ||
| Synonyms | Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone, Harlan Stone | ||
| Instance hypernym | chief justice | ||
| 8. | Stone (person) United States filmmaker (born in 1946) | ||
| Synonyms | Oliver Stone | ||
| Instance hypernym | film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker | ||
| 9. | Stone (person) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) | ||
| Synonyms | Lucy Stone | ||
| Instance hypernym | feminist, libber, suffragist, women's liberationist, women's rightist | ||
| 10. | Stone (person) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) | ||
| Synonyms | I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone | ||
| Instance hypernym | journalist | ||
| 11. | Stone (person) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946) | ||
| Synonyms | Harlan Fiske Stone | ||
| Instance hypernym | jurist, legal expert | ||
| 12. | Stone (person) United States architect (1902-1978) | ||
| Synonyms | Edward Durell Stone | ||
| Instance hypernym | architect, designer | ||
| 13. | stone (attribute) a lack of feeling or expression or movement | ||
| Samples | He must have a heart of stone. Her face was as hard as stone. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness | ||
English verb: stone | |||
| 1. | stone (contact) kill by throwing stones at | ||
| Samples | People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock. | ||
| Examples | They want to stone the prisoners | ||
| Synonyms | lapidate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | kill | ||
| 2. | stone (change) remove the pits from | ||
| Samples | Pit plums and cherries. | ||
| Synonyms | pit | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | remove, take, take away, withdraw | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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