stone

English Online Dictionary. What means stone‎? What does stone mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).

See also Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stəʊn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stoʊn/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /stɐʉn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Noun

stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or (as unit of mass) stone)

1. (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
2. A small piece of stone, a pebble.
3. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
4. (British) A unit of mass 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.
5. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

7. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

   Synonym: calculus

   Hyponyms: kidney stone, nephrolith, gallstone, cholelith, sialolith, urolith

8. (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
9. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

10. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
11. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
12. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
13. (obsolete) A testicle.
14. (printing, historical) 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.

    Synonym: imposing stone

Usage notes

• All countable senses use the regular plural stones except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural stone.

Synonyms

• (substance): rock
• (small piece of stone): pebble
• (unit of mass): petra
• (of fruit): pip, pit
• (hard stone-like deposit): calculus
• (curling piece): rock

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ston
• → Esperanto: ŝtono

Translations

Verb

stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)

1. (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.

   She got stoned to death after they found her.
2. (transitive) To wall with stones.
3. (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
4. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
5. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
6. (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
7. (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Synonyms

• (pelt with stones): lapidate
• (do nothing, just relaxing): chill, chillax, chill out, hang out, rilek
• (do nothing, stare into space): daydream, veg out

Translations

Adjective

stone (not comparable)

1. Constructed of stone.

   Synonym: (archaic) stonen

   stone walls

2. Having the appearance of stone.

   stone pot

3. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
4. (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
5. (LGBT, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

   Synonym: pillow princess

   stone butch

   stone femme

Translations

Adverb

stone (not comparable)

1. As a stone (used with following adjective).

   My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.

2. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

   I went stone crazy after she left.

   I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.

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Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• 'onest, ETNOs, Eston, SONET, notes, onest, onset, set on, seton, steno, steno-, tones

Chinese

Etymology

From English stoned.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʰʊŋ⁵⁵/

Adjective

stone

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism) stoned; high on drugs, especially cannabis

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ston/

Adjective

stone (plural stones)

1. stoned (high on drugs)

Middle English

Noun

stone

1. Alternative form of ston