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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" |
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building material material used for constructing buildings
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ashlar a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes
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capstone,
copestone,
coping stone,
stretcher a stone that forms the top of wall or building
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cornerstone a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
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cornerstone a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
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foundation stone a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building
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gravestone,
headstone,
tombstone a stone that is used to mark a grave
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grindstone a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools
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hearthstone a stone that forms a hearth
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millstone one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
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monolith a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)
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paving stone a stone used for paving
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impost,
springer a cow about to give birth
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stela,
stele an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
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whetstone a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives
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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" |
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pit,
endocarp |
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pericarp,
seed vessel the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary
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peach pit the stone seed of a peach
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cherry stone the stone seed of a cherry
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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" |
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avoirdupois unit any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights
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quarter clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent; "he surrendered but asked for quarter"
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britain,
great britain,
u.k.,
uk,
united kingdom,
united kingdom of great britain and nort an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
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pound a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound"
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stone - 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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chilliness,
coldness,
coolness,
frigidity,
frigidness,
iciness the property of being moderately cold; "the chilliness of early morning"
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Stone - United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) |
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Stone - United States architect (1902-1978) |
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Stone - United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946) |
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Stone - United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) |
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Stone - United States filmmaker (born in 1946) |
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Stone - 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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stone - kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock" |
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kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
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stone - of any of various dull tannish or grey colors |
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chromatic being or having or characterized by hue
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