Dictionary Entry
stone
stone is a 5-letter English word with 32 senses as noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 32 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
- 2noun
A precious stone; a gem.
- 3noun
Something made of stone. Specifically: -
- 4noun
The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
- 5noun
A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
- 6noun
A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
- 7noun
One of the testes; a testicle.
- 8noun
The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
- 9noun
A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
- 10noun
Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
- 11noun
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; -- called also imposing stone.
- 12noun
To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
- 13noun
To make like stone; to harden.
- 14noun
To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
- 15noun
To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
- 16noun
To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
- 17noun
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"
- 18noun
a lack of feeling or expression or movement
"he must have a heart of stone"
"her face was as hard as stone"
- 19noun
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
"he threw a rock at me"
Synonyms
- 20noun
United States architect (1902-1978)
- 21noun
United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
- 22noun
United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
- 23noun
United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
- 24noun
United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
- 25noun
United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
- 26noun
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"
- 27noun
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"
- 28noun
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"
Synonyms
- 29noun
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"
- 30verb
remove the pits from
"pit plums and cherries"
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- 31verb
kill by throwing stones at
"People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"
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- 32adjective
of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
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