stone
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos
Proto-Germanic *stainaz
Proto-West Germanic *stain
Old English stān
Middle English ston
English stone
From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots stane (“stone”), Yola sthoan (“stone”), North Frisian stean, stian, stiin, stiinj (“stone”), Saterland Frisian Steen (“stone”), West Frisian stien (“stone”), Alemannic German Steei (“rock, stone”), Bavarian Staa (“rock, stone”), Central Franconian Steen, Stään (“stone”), Dutch steen (“stone”), German Stein (“rock, stone”), German Low German Steen, Stein (“stone”), Luxembourgish Steen (“stone”), Vilamovian śtan (“stone”), Yiddish שטיין (shteyn, “stone”), Danish and Swedish sten (“stone”), Elfdalian stien (“stone”), Faroese steinur (“stone”), Gutnish stain (“rock, stone”), Icelandic steinn (“rock, stone”), Norwegian Bokmål stein, sten (“stone”), Norwegian Nynorsk steidn, stein (“stone”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains, “stone”). Compare also Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Lithuanian sténgti (“to be able, make an effort; to oppose”), Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्तिया (stiyā, “still or stagnant water”). Doublet of stain, stean, and stein.
Inflected forms:
form: stones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stone
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
form: styen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: stean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
dialectal
form: styen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: stean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
dialectal
form: styen
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: stean
pos: adv
tags: alternative
UK
dialectal
form: stones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: A piece of such material: a block of stone, rock or a pebble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A railway station which formerly stood a few miles from Sydney has recently been demolished, stone by stone, and has been re-erected as a church in the Australian Capital Territory of Canberra, about 200 miles away.
gloss: A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels[…]
gloss: A unit of weight 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.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: British people measure their weight in stones and pounds. I weigh eight stone five.
Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones.
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.
gloss: The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: pip
a peach stone
gloss: A hard, stone-like deposit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth.
gloss: A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye
 Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie.
It seems to me that when I die / These words will be written on my stone[…]
gloss: A mirror, or its glass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone, / Why then ſhe liues.
gloss: A testicle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […]and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels ſtone?
Hee that is wounded in the ſtones, or hath his priuie member cut off, ſhall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.
gloss: Constructed of stone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: stone walls
gloss: Having the appearance of stone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: stone pot
gloss: Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Used as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She is one stone fox.
Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that.
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.
“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
He might be a stone killer who simply doesn't care if his victim's alive or dead at the time of disfigurement.
gloss: Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: stone butch
stone femme
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.
My physical preference tends more to very masculine-bodied non-transitioning stone TG butches.
gloss: As a stone (used with following adjective).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
gloss: Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: I went stone crazy after she left.
I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.
gloss: To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: stoned to death
She got stoned to death after they found her.
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.
An up slow train on the Howrah-Burdwan line, north of Calcutta, arrived 15 min. late at Belur recently. The delay resulted in several waiting passengers stoning the driver and the guard.
Our house was being stoned by a group of adolescent boys. We called the police seven times and they wouldn't come.
gloss: To wall or wall up with stones.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] 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.
gloss: To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
intransitive
slang
examples: I was stoning the whole of today.
Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning.
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.
gloss: To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Before they did the setup on the machining center, they stoned the table to knock down any nicked burrs.
Synonyms: hard stone-like deposit
Related words: stonify
Derived words: Abrasax stone
Adamic stone
adder stone
airstone
alley stone
altar stone
altar-stone
alum stone
alumstone
amazonstone
Ancaster stone
appeal to the stone
archstone
a rolling stone gathers no moss
Atlas stone
axstone
bafflestone
baking stone
Balin stone
Bargate stone
Bath stone
beat one's head against a stone wall
bedstone
beerstone
benben stone
bezoar stone
Big Stone County
bilestone
bindstone
birthstone
blackstone
Black Stone
Blarney Stone
blockstone
blood from a stone
bloodstone
bluestone
Bologna stone
Bolognian stone
bondstone
borderstone
border stone
boulderstone
boundary stone
boundstone
bowing stone
breakstone
brimstone
brownstone
Caen stone
cairngormstone
capstone
carved in stone
cast stone
cast the first stone
cauterizing stone
chalkstone
charmstone
cherrystone
china stone
chockstone
chuckiestone
chuckstone
cinnamon stone
claystone
clingstone
clinkstone
Coade stone
cobblestone
Colwall Stone
coping stone
corestone
corner-stone
cornerstone
cornstone
Cotswold stone
crabstone
cross-stone
crowstone
crystal stone
Cullen stone
cultured stone
cupstone
curbstone
curling stone
datestone
Diamondstone
dimensional stone
dimension stone
discstone
dog-stone
dolostone
donkey stone
doorstone
dragonstone
dripping water hollows a stone
dripstone
dropstone
dry stone
drystone
dry-stone
dry-stone dyke
dry stone wall
eaglestone
earstone
edgestone
Einang stone
endstone
eyestone
fairy stone
fieldstone
firestone
five stones
fivestones
flagstone
flintstone
floatstone
floorstone
flowstone
foil stone
footstone
forestone
for hellery
formstone
foundation stone
Four Shire Stone
framestone
freestone
free-stone
gall stone
gallstone
gemstone
get blood from a stone
get blood out of a stone
gibber stone
gizzard stone
glowstone
Goa stone
go stone
grainstone
grape-stone
grapestone
gravestone
graystone
greenstone
green-stone
greystone
grinding stone
grindle-stone
grindstone
gritstone
groundstone
growstones
guard stone
guidestone
gunstone
hagstone
hailstone
hairstone
hair stone
hammerstone
handstone
hard as stone
hardstone
Headington stone
headstone
hearthstone
heart of stone
holystone
honestone
honeycomb stone
honeystone
hornstone
Horsham stone
humming stone
hunger stone
icestone
infernal stone
inkstone
ironstone
jackstone
jadestone
jade-stone
jambstone
Jew's stone
jewstone
kerbstone
kerb stone
kerb-stone
keystone
kidney stone
kill two birds with one stone
klingstone
knockstone
Labrador stone
lapstone
leave no stone unturned
ledgestone
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
lime-stone
limestone
lithographic stone
living stone
lizard-stone
lodestone
lovestone
Lydian stone
made of stone
madstone
malmstone
mani stone
markstone
mark with a white stone
marlstone
marriage stone
merestone
milestone
milkstone
mill-stone
millstone
Millstone
minestone
moa stone
Mocha stone
moonstone
moorstone
mort stone
mudstone
needlestone
not leave a stone unturned
nunuz stone
nuptial stone
off stone
ohko stone
oilstone
oxygen stone
packstone
padstone
palm stone
paper scissors stone
paving stone
pearlstone
peastone
pebblestone
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
permastone
perpend stone
perpent stone
Petoskey stone
philosopher's stone
philosophers' stone
Philosopher's Stone
Philosophers' Stone
Phrygian stone
pipestone
pitchstone
pizza stone
plaster-stone
polystone
Portland stone
potstone
Poundstone
precious stone
pudding stone
puddingstone
pumice stone
pumie stone
pumy stone
Purbeck stone
putting stone
quandong stone
quarrystone
quernstone
ragstone
rai stone
rattle stone
ravenstone
reading stone
recumbent stone circle
Redstone
redstone
restone
rhinestone
ribstone
rimstone
ringstone
roadstone
rockstone
roestone
rolling stone
roofstone
Rosetta Stone
rotten stone
rottenstone
roundstone
rubbing stone
rubblestone
rubstone
runestone
runner stone
saltstone
Samian stone
sandstone
Saracen's stone
Saracen stone
Sarsden stone
satin stone
scissors paper stone
scoopstone
screw-stone
scrubstone
scrying stone
scythestone
seal stone
seeing stone
set in stone
sharpening stone
shew stone
show stone
show-stone
silkstone
siltstone
sink like a stone
slatestone
sleekstone
slickstone
sling-stone
slingstone
sling stone
slocking stone
Smithfield stone
snakestone
soapstone
sorcerer's stone
sounding stone
sounding-stone
sparstone
specular stone
spleen stone
staddle stone
standing stone
standing stones
starstone
steddle stone
Stenhouse
stepping stone
stepping-stone
stepstone
sticks and stones
sticks and stones may break my bones
stinkstone
stonable
stone age
Stone Age
stone-age
stone baby
stonebaked
Stonebank
stone bass
stonebird
stone-blind
stoneblower
stoneblowing
stone boat
stoneboat
stone boiling
stonebound
stonebow
stone bow
stone bramble
stone brash
stonebrash
stonebreak
stonebreaker
Stonebridge
stone broke
stone-broke
stonebrood
stone bubble
stonebuilt
stone butch
stone canal
stonecast
stonecatcher
stone cell
stone centipede
stonechat
stone circle
stone coal
stonecold
stone-cold sober
stone-cold
stone cold
stone colic
stone coral
Stone County
stone crab
stonecraft
stonecrafter
stone cream
stone cress
stonecrop
Stone Cross
stone curlew
stonecutter
stonecutting
stoned
stone-dead
stone dead
stone-deaf
stone deaf
stonedelf
stonedresser
stonedressing
stone editor
stone end
stone-faced
stonefaced
stone falcon
stonefall
stone femme
stone-fence
stonefish
stonefly
stone frigate
stone fruit
Stonegate
stone-ginger
stoneground
stone-ground
stone hammer
stone hands
stonehard
stone-hard
stonehead
stonehearted
stone-hearted
stone-heartedly
stone-heartedness
Stonehenge
stone-horse
Stonehouse
stone jug
stone knapper
stone-knapper
stonelayer
stonelaying
stoneless
stonelike
stone-lily
stone lily
stone lion
stone loach
stonelore
stoneman
stone man syndrome
stone marten
stonemason
stonemasonry
stone massage
stone me
stonemeal
Stone Mills
stone mint
stone money
stone mulching
stonen
stone naked
stoneness
stone nut
Stone of Destiny
stone of the philosophers
stone oil
stone paper
stone parsley
stone paste
stonepaste
stone-paste
stonepecker
stone pine
stone pit
stonepit
stone plover
stoneproof
stoner
stone-rag
stoneroller
stoneroot
stonerunner
stoneseed
stonesetting
stone shoot
stoneshot
stone skiffing
stone skimming
stone skipping
stone-snipe
stone soup
stonesthrow
stone's throw
stone-still
stone sub
stone subeditor
stone tape theory
stone the crows
stone-throwing
stone veneer
Stonewall
stonewall
stone wall
stone-wall
stonewaller
stoneware
stonewash
stonewashed
stoneway
stoneweed
stonewise
stonewood
stonework
stoneworker
stoneworking
stonewort
stone xylophone
stoney
stoneyard
stonify
stonish
stony
Stonyford
stumbling stone
stumbling-stone
suckstone
summer-stone
sunstone
swimming stone
swinestone
Swiss stone pine
tablestone
television stone
through stone
throughstone
through-stone
throwing stone
throw stones
thumb stone
thunderstone
tilestone
tinstone
toadstone
tombstone
tongue stone
tonsil stone
tool stone
topstone
totem stone
touchstone
tripestone
trone stone
tsunami stone
tumblestone
Turkey stone
turnstone
turn to stone
turtle stone
turtle-stone
two birds/one stone
two birds with one stone
two birds—one stone
Tyndall stone
unstone
upping stone
veinstone
Venus's hair stone
wackestone
wallstone
waterstone
Watton-at-Stone
wheelstone
whetstone
whinstone
whiskey stone
whitestone
wine stone
witches' stone
witch stone
woodstone
work-stone
workstone
worry stone
written in stone
yellowstone
Yellowstone
Yorkstone
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