Stone (Noun)
Meaning 1
United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989).
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 2
United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946).
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 3
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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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 4
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".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 5
United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893).
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 6
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".
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Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Meaning 7
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".
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Nouns denoting substances.
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- Claystone
- Sial
- Pumice
- Metamorphic Rock
- Pudding Stone
- Fieldstone
- Sedimentary Rock
- Road Metal
- Igneous Rock
- Limestone
- Shingling
- Dolomite
- Tufa
- Magma
- Greisen
- Caliche
- Sima
- Emery Stone
- Quartzite
- Aphanite
- Matrix
- Gravel
- Marble
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Meaning 8
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".
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Nouns denoting plants.
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Meaning 10
A lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone".
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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Meaning 11
A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me".
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Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
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- Achondrite
- Intrusion
- Whinstone
- Rock Outcrop
- Petrifaction
- Chondrite
- Sill
- Boulder
- Bedrock
- Tor
- Stepping Stone
- Xenolith
- Calculus
- Clastic Rock
- Pebble
- Outcrop
- Crystal
- Wall Rock
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Meaning 13
A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones".
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Nouns denoting substances.