Stonename/stəʊ̯n/

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  An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.

  • Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “cry for help” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment.
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  A male given name.

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stonenoun詞源 1/stəʊ̯n/

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  geographygeologynatural-sciencesA hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.

  • 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.
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  geographygeologynatural-sciencesA piece of such material: a block of stone, rock or a pebble.

  • 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.
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  A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

  • […]Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels[…]
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  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.

  • 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.
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  biologybotanynatural-sciencesThe central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

  • Near-synonym: pip
  • a peach stone
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  medicinesciencesA hard, stone-like deposit.

  • The pain of passing a larger stone is often compared to child birth.
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  A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.

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  A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

stoneadj詞源 1/stəʊ̯n/

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  Constructed of stone.

  • stone walls
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  Having the appearance of stone.

  • stone pot
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  Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

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  Used as an intensifier.

  • She is one stone fox.
  • Yeah, he's a stone fuck–up. But he's stand–up, too, don't forget that.
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  slangWilling to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

  • stone butch
  • stone femme

stoneadv詞源 1/stəʊ̯n/

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  As a stone (used with following adjective).

  • My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
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  slangAbsolutely, 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.

stoneverb詞源 2/stəʊ̯n/

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  To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.

  • stoned to death
  • She got stoned to death after they found her.
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  To wall or wall up with stones.

  • […] 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.
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  To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

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  To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.

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  slangEspecially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)

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  slangTo do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.

  • I was stoning the whole of today.
  • Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning.
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  To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

  • Before they did the setup on the machining center, they stoned the table to knock down any nicked burrs.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Stone County