Stone is the hard, solid substance which is found in the ground and is often used for building.
In British English, a stone is a small piece of stone which you can pick up in your hand.
In American English, a small piece of stone like this may also be called a rock.
In both British and American English, a rock is also a large piece of stone that sticks up out of the ground or the sea, or that has broken away from a mountain.
In British English, the large, hard seed in a fruit such as a cherry, date, or apricot is called the stone.
In American English, this seed is called the pit.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man achondrite - a stony meteor lacking chondrules bedrock - solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil calculus, concretion - a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body; "renal calculi can be very painful" chondrite - a rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules clastic rock - (geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks crystallization, crystal - a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces intrusion - rock produced by an intrusive process outcrop, outcropping, rock outcrop - the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land pebble - a small smooth rounded rock petrifaction - a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form sill - (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock stepping stone - a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing tor - a prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill wall rock - a rock immediately adjacent to a vein or fault whinstone, whin - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) xenolith - (geology) a piece of rock of different origin from the igneous rock in which it is embedded |
2. | stone - building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site" ashlar - a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes cornerstone - a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls cornerstone - a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies foundation stone - a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building grindstone - a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools hearthstone - a stone that forms a hearth millstone - one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain monolith - a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk) paving stone - a stone used for paving whetstone - a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives building material - material used for constructing buildings | |
3. | stone - material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" mineral - solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition quartzite - hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals road metal - broken rock used for repairing or making roads sedimentary rock - rock formed from consolidated clay sediments sial - the granitelike rocks that form the outermost layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and aluminum sima - rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium metamorphic rock - rock altered by pressure and heat crushed rock, gravel - rock fragments and pebbles caliche - nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru shingling - (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction pumice, pumice stone - a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive aphanite - fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye claystone - fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles dolomite - a kind of sedimentary rock resembling marble or limestone but rich in magnesium carbonate emery rock, emery stone - a mixture of emery dust and a binder; can be molded into grindstones conglomerate, pudding stone - a composite rock made up of particles of varying size fieldstone - stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material greisen - a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica calc-tufa, tufa - a soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime magma - molten rock in the earth's crust igneous rock - rock formed by the solidification of molten magma limestone - a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals marble - a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material matrix - (geology) amass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded | |
4. | ![]() jewellery, jewelry - an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) cabochon - a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets crystal - a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure opaque gem - a gemstone that is opaque transparent gem - a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion | |
5. | stone - an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone" Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds) | |
6. | stone - the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking" pericarp, seed vessel - the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary peach pit - the stone seed of a peach cherry stone - the stone seed of a cherry | |
7. | Stone - United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946) | |
8. | Stone - United States filmmaker (born in 1946) | |
9. | Stone - United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) | |
10. | Stone - United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) | |
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12. | Stone - United States architect (1902-1978) | |
13. | stone - a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" chilliness, coldness, iciness, frigidity, frigidness, coolness - a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner" | |
Verb | 1. | stone - kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock" kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
2. | stone - remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" | |
Adj. | 1. | stone - of any of various dull tannish or grey colors chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue |