[ noun ]
■ building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
e.g.)
・he wanted a special stone to mark the site
[ noun ]
■ a lack of feeling or expression or movement
e.g.)
・he must have a heart of stone
・her face was as hard as stone
[ noun ]
■ a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
→
rock
[ noun ]
■ United States architect (1902-1978)
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edward durell stone
[ noun ]
■ United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
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harlan fiske stone
[ noun ]
■ United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
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i. f. stone
,
isidor feinstein stone
[ noun ]
■ United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
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lucy stone
[ noun ]
■ United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
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oliver stone
[ noun ]
■ United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
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harlan f. stone
,
harlan fisk stone
,
harlan stone
[ noun ]
■ the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
e.g.)
・you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
→
endocarp
,
pit
[ noun ]
■ an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body
■ equal to 14 pounds
e.g.)
・a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone
[ noun ]
■ material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
e.g.)
・stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries
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rock
[ noun ]
■ a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
e.g.)
・she had jewels made of all the rarest stones
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gem
,
gemstone
[ verb ]
■ remove the pits from
→
pit
[ verb ]
■ kill by throwing stones at
e.g.)
・People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock
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lapidate
[ adjective satellite ]
■ of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
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