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单词 stone
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stonenoun

uk/stəʊn/us/stoʊn/

stone noun (ROCK)

B1 [ C or U ] the hard, solid substance found in the ground that is often used for building, or a piece of this:

a stone wall/floor
a flight of stone steps
a primitive stone axe
They cut enormous blocks of stone out of the hillside.
Some demonstrators were arrested for throwing stones at the police.

[ C ] a piece of hard material that can form in some organs in the body and cause severe pain:

kidney/gall stones

More examples

  • A stone hit the window and cracked the glass.
  • A stone was digging into my heel.
  • The stone fell into the water with a plop.
  • Youths hurled stones at the soldiers.
  • Some demonstrators were arrested for throwing stones at the police.

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Geology - general words

  • anticline
  • auriferous
  • Cambrian
  • cementation
  • compaction
  • continental crust
  • continental drift
  • Cretaceous
  • crustal
  • deposition
  • earth science
  • fold
  • geological
  • geology
  • Pleistocene
  • Pliocene
  • Precambrian
  • Quaternary
  • subduction
  • subduction zone

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Swellings & lumps

stone noun (WEIGHT)

[ C ] plural stone or stones UK written abbreviation st a unit of weight equal to 14 pounds or 6.35 kilograms, used especially when talking about a person's weight:

I weigh ten and a half stone.
She has put on/lost a stone (= is a stone heavier/lighter).

More examples

  • I want to lose a stone before Christmas.
  • She must weigh over 15 stone.
  • I got up to 13 stone when I was pregnant.
  • He's down to twelve stone.
  • You're three stones heavier than me!

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Measurements of weight & mass

  • atomic mass unit
  • BMI
  • body mass index
  • centigram
  • ct
  • cwt
  • dead weight
  • gm
  • grammage
  • gramme
  • kilo
  • kt
  • mg
  • milligram
  • ounce
  • oz
  • ton
  • tonnage
  • tonne
  • weigh

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stone noun (JEWEL)

B1 [ C ] a small piece of a hard, valuable substance, such as a diamond, that is found in the ground and used in jewellery:

a precious/semiprecious stone
The large central diamond is surrounded by eight smaller stones.

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Jewellery

  • badge
  • bead
  • beaded
  • bindi
  • bling
  • charm bracelet
  • choker
  • clip-on
  • coronet
  • crown
  • filigree
  • fob
  • knuckleduster
  • pearl
  • pendant
  • precious stone
  • semiprecious
  • tiepin
  • trinket
  • wedding ring

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Geology: precious & semi-precious stones

stone noun (SEED)

C2 [ C ] mainly UK US usually pit a large, hard seed inside some types of fruit:

Peaches, plums, and olives all contain stones.
Compare
pip noun

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Fruits & seeds & their parts

  • acorn
  • chaff
  • coffee bean
  • endosperm
  • fruiterer
  • grain
  • kernel
  • mielie
  • nut
  • pine cone
  • pine nut
  • pit
  • pith
  • seeded
  • seeded
  • sesame seed
  • stalk
  • thistledown
  • windfall
  • zest

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Idiom(s)

drop/fall/sink like a stone
not be set/carved in stone
sink like a stone
a stone's throw

stoneverb [ T ]

uk/stəʊn/us/stoʊn/

stone verb [ T ] (THROW ROCKS)

to throw stones at something or someone:

Rioters set up barricades and stoned police cars.
stone sb to death

to kill someone as a punishment by throwing stones at them

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Throwing

  • cast
  • chuck
  • fling
  • heave
  • hurl
  • overhand
  • peg
  • pelt
  • pitch
  • precipitate
  • project
  • projectile
  • sling
  • slung
  • throw
  • throw-in
  • thrown
  • toss
  • underarm
  • underhand

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Punishing by causing pain
Death penalties

stone verb [ T ] (REMOVE SEED)

US usually pit to remove the stone from a fruit:

Could you stone the cherries for me?

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Removing the skin or seed from fruit & vegetables

  • core
  • hull
  • pare
  • peel
  • pit
  • pitted
  • seed
  • seeded
  • shell
  • shuck
  • skinless
  • stoned
  • top
  • top and tail idiom
  • winnow

Idiom(s)

stone the crows!
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