Definition von stone im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- A hard, stone-like deposit
kidney stone.
- To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc
- Having the appearance of stone
stone pot.
- Constructed of stone
stone walls.
- To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones
- (plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms
- A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go
- To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
- A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice
- A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders
- As a stone (used with following adjective)
My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
- To remove a stone from (fruit etc.)
- Complete, absolute, of the highest degree
stone free.
- The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer
a peach stone.
- Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective)
I went stone crazy after she left.
- A small piece of stone
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond
- Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones
- A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones
stone colour:.
- {v} to pelt or kill with stones, to harden
- {n} a concretion of earth, as clay, lime, silex usually combined with some kind of air, and often with sulphur or a metal; stones are hard, insoluble in water, inductile and unmalleable; also a concretion in the kidneys or bladder, a case containing the kernel of a seed, a testicle, a weight of 14 lb
- {a} made of or like stone
- Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone
- To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone
- Gond
- 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
- A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus
- emphasis If you say that you will leave no stone unturned, you are emphasizing that you will try every way you can think of in order to achieve what you want. He said he would leave no stone unturned in the search for peace
- A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc
- G3037 lithos, lee'-thos; appar a prim word; a stone (lit or fig ): --(mill-, stumbling-) stone
- Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed. Scientific opinions are not carved on tablets of stone; they change over the years
- 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" a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" United States architect (1902-1978) United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946) United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) United States filmmaker (born in 1946) 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" 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" kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran" of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
- A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc
- A hard, one-seeded endocarp of a drupe
- Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events (Gen 28: 18; Josh 24: 26, 27; 1 Sam 7: 12, etc ) They were gathered out of cultivated fields (Isa 5: 2; comp 2 Kings 3: 19) This word is also used figuratively of believers (1 Pet 2: 4, 5), and of the Messiah (Ps 118: 22; Isa 28: 16; Matt 21: 42; Acts 4: 11, etc ) In Dan 2: 45 it refers also to the Messiah He is there described as "cut out of the mountain " (See ROCK )
- If people stone someone or something, they throw stones at them. A post office was set on fire and vehicles were stoned by looters
- The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach
- Small impurities in glass, such as a particle of furnace material
- {i} rock; piece of rock shaped or cut for some purpose; pebble; gem; seed, pit; unit of weight equal to fourteen pounds or 6.36 kilograms (British)
- To make like stone; to harden
- If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other. a two-bedroom apartment just a stone's throw from the beach Just a stone's throw away is the City Art Gallery
- A {lithographic} stone is a slab of stone, usually limestone, used as a matrix for a print Lithographic stones are used to make lithographs and chromolithographs
- 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"
- A measurement of weight that equals approximately fourteen pounds
- A stone is a large piece of stone put somewhere in memory of a person or event, or as a religious symbol. The monument consists of a circle of gigantic stones
- One of the testes; a testicle
- To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins
- Fig
- Side of the elements representing the introvert sex at the low level Stone comprises the following Archetypes: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
- United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
- completely
- Stone is a hard solid substance found in the ground and often used for building houses. He could not tell whether the floor was wood or stone People often don't appreciate that marble is a natural stone. stone walls
- A stone is a small hard ball of minerals and other substances which sometimes forms in a person's kidneys or gall bladder. He had kidney stones
- Quarried or artificially broken rock for use in construction
- United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
- kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"
- of Endocarp
- A monument to the dead; a gravestone
- 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"
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
- 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"
- {s} of or pertaining to stone, made of stone
- A stone is a measurement of weight, especially the weight of a person, equal to 14 pounds or 6.35 kilograms. I weighed around 16 stone. see also stoned, foundation stone, paving stone, precious stone, stepping stone
- Something made of stone
- If you stone a fruit, you remove its stone. Then stone the fruit and process the plums to a puree
- Specifically: - The glass of a mirror; a mirror
- A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed
- 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"
- An accidental inclusion in the glass Stones consist of unmelted particles of batch, fragments of refractory material from the pot, or devtrification crystals The first two varieties are generally rough but rounded; the third is angular
- a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
- Stone Age
- A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking
- Stone Age
- Any extremely primitive or undeveloped era
- Stone Age
- The time a particular field was introduced and was in its earliest stages of development
- stone bramble
- A plant species of the genus Rubus, Rubus saxatilis
- stone brambles
- plural form of stone bramble
- stone cold
- Certain; definite; obvious
Interest rate rise a 'stone-cold certainty' despite industry plea ().
- stone cold
- Very cold; lacking any semblance of warmth
I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later.
- stone cold sober
- Completely sober. Not having taken any alcoholic drink at all for a long time
- stone crab
- The Florida stone crab
- stone crab
- The king crab
- stone curlew
- Several species of large terrestrial birds in the family Burhinidae
- stone curlews
- plural form of stone curlew
- stone dead
- Utterly dead
- stone deaf
- Utterly deaf
Years of working under such noisy conditions ultimately left him stone deaf.
- stone frigate
- a shore establishment of the Royal Navy and some Commonwhealth navies
- stone fruit
- Any fruit with a soft fleshy exterior surrounding a hard pit or stone containing the seed
- stone fruits
- plural form of stone fruit
- stone marten
- Martes foina; beech marten
- stone martens
- plural form of stone marten
- stone mulching
- The practice of covering plant roots with stone, in the manner of a mulch
In experiments, stone mulching decreases soil water evaporation, protects against wind and rain erosion, and reduces daily temperature fluctuation..
- stone pine
- A species of pine native of southern Europe, Pinus pinea
- stone soup
- A traditional Portuguese thick soup, sopa de pedra
Sopa de pedra (stone soup) is a marvellously thick country soup of numerous vegetables and meats. Adding the stone is optional.
- stone the crows
- Generalized expression of surprise or amazement, or just for emphasis
Why, stone the crows! I'll look yous up.
- stone's throw
- A short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone
He came on looking upon the ground, and did not see Bathsheba till they were less than a stone's throw apart.
- stone-age
- Belonging in the Stone Age
- stone-cold
- Completely cold
By the time I returned to my desk, my tea was stone-cold'.
- stone-cold
- Without emotion
He was a stone-cold killer, he didn't flinch, blink, or care as he took the shot.
- stone-curlew
- Alternative spelling of stone curlew
- stone-fruit
- Attributive form of stone fruit, noun
It had a stone-fruit taste to it: it tasted something like a nectarine, actually.
- stone-mulching
- Attributive form of stone mulching, noun
- Stone sculpture
- Stone sculpture is the result of forming 3-dimensional visually interesting objects from stone
- stone butch
- A stone butch is a female-bodied person who is strongly masculine in character and dress, who tops their partners sexually (and sometimes emotionally), and who does not wish to be touched genitally. Not all stone butches identify in female terms, some are known to identify with male pronouns, and many stone butches - not all, but many - do not identify themselves with lesbian or within the lesbian community. A common partner for a stone butch is a Stone Femme, who is a femme who bottoms sexually or who wishes not to touch the genitals of her stone butch partner
- stone femme
- Stone femme has been used to describe several different kinds of femme (feminine) identities, sometimes within a broader dyke identity or culture. People who identify as Stone femme have patterned the name for their identity after the more widely known term stone butch. A stone butch is a female-bodied person who is strongly masculine in character and dress, who is the "giver" in sexual interactions, and who does not wish to be touched genitally. Stone femme is used to describe a femme who is sexually receptive or who wishes not to touch the genitals of her partner
- stone wool
- Stone wool also known as rock wool or mineral wool, means fibers made from synthetic or natural minerals or metal oxides. It is an inorganic substance used for insulation and filtering. A common mistake is to believe that fiberglass and ceramic fibers are NOT mineral wools, but they are by virtue of their consisting of minerals or metal oxides
- stone wool
- Mineral wool, also known as rock wool or stone wool, means fibers made from synthetic or natural minerals or metal oxides. It is an inorganic substance used for insulation and filtering. A common mistake is to believe that fiberglass and ceramic fibers are NOT mineral wools, but they are by virtue of their consisting of minerals or metal oxides
- Stone Age
- period of history in which man used stone tools and weapons (Bronze Age)
- Stone Age
- The Stone Age is a very early period of human history, when people used tools and weapons made of stone, not metal. a very early time in human history, when only stone was used for making tools, weapons etc. First known period of prehistoric human culture, characterized by the use of stone tools. The term is little used by specialists today. See Paleolithic Period; Mesolithic Period; Neolithic Period; stone-tool industry. See also Bronze Age; Iron Age
- Stone Mountain
- A massive granite monadnock, 514.2 m (1,686 ft) high, in northwest-central Georgia east of Atlanta. Its northeast wall contains a huge Confederate memorial (carved 1917-1967)
- Stone of Scone
- a stone seat that was traditionally used in the Scottish ceremony for officially making someone King or Queen of Scotland. It is also called the Stone of Destiny. The stone was taken from Scotland in 1296 and kept in Westminster Abbey in London, but Scottish Nationalists, who believed that the stone belonged in Scotland, tried to steal it. In 1996 it was officially returned to Scotland. Rectangular block of yellow sandstone decorated with a Celtic cross, which has been associated with the crowning of Scottish kings since medieval times. Legend says it was Jacob's pillow in the Holy Land, and it was taken to Ireland and then carried off by invading Scots. Kenneth I MacAlpin brought it to the Scottish village of Scone 840. Edward I took it to England (1296), where it was later placed under the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey as a symbol of the authority of English kings over Scotland. It was finally returned to Scotland in 1996
- stone age
- Noun Period of time stretching from 300,000BC to 2,000BC The stone age began with the first people arriving in Britain, to the dawn of the Bronze age Split into three sections (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic)
- stone age
- This period of prehistory is divided into the Old Stone Age (the Palaeolithic), the Middle Stone Age (the Mesolithic), and the New Stone Age (the Neolithic) See Prehistoric Calderdale
- stone age
- The first known period of prehistoric human culture characterized by the use of stone tools
- stone age
- (archeology) the earliest known period of human culture, characterized by the use of stone implements
- stone age
- Refers to a time in human history during which mainly stones were used for tools and weapons
- stone age
- The earliest technological period in human culture when tools were made of stone, wood, bone, or antlers Metal was unknown The dates of the Stone Age vary considerably from one region to another, and some communities were still living a Stone Age life until very recent times It is subdivided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic The Stone Age was followed by the Bronze Age and then the Iron Age
- stone bass
- brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks
- stone bramble
- European trailing bramble with red berrylike fruits
- stone breaker
- someone who breaks up stone
- stone building
- structure built out of stone
- stone canal
- A calcareous duct in echinoderms that leads from the madreporite to a ring-shaped canal around the mouth
- stone cell
- A nearly isodiametric sclereid that is found in certain fruits, such as the quince and pear
- stone circle
- a circle of big tall stones, built thousands of years ago
- stone crab
- A large edible crab (Menippe mercenaria) found along the Atlantic coast of the southern United States
- stone crab
- large edible crab of S coat of United States especially Florida pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor; found in Florida but now very rare
- stone curlew
- large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint
- stone curlew
- wading bird having a thickened knee joint
- stone cutting
- carving stone, shaping stone, sculpting stone
- stone deaf
- Someone who is stone deaf cannot hear at all. completely unable to hear
- stone dressing
- stone carving, hewing of stones, cutting stones
- stone dust
- dusty remains of a rock
- stone facing
- stone covering over a cement wall
- stone floor
- rock floor, floor made from stone tiles
- stone fly
- primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones
- stone fruit
- {i} fruit which contains a hard seed in the center (e.g. peach, plum, etc.)
- stone lily
- A fossil crinoid
- stone marten
- Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat
- stone mint
- An aromatic eastern North American plant (Cunila origanoides) of the mint family, having clusters of small purplish or white flowers. Also called dittany
- stone parsley
- slender roadside herb of western Europe and Mediterranean having foliage like parsley and white flowers with aromatic seeds
- stone pine
- medium-sized 2-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown; widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds
- stone removal
- taking away of stones, removal of rocks
- stone throwing
- throwing rocks, hurling rocks
- stone wall
- a fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields
- stone wall
- wall made of rock; evade, avoid
- stone wash
- process of treating fabric by washing it with a stone to soften and distress the look
- stone's throw
- nearby, very close
- stone's throw
- A short distance
- stone-blind
- completely blind
- stone-blind
- completely sightless
- stone-broke
- lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"
- stone-broke
- poor to an extreme
- stone-cold
- If something that should be warm is stone-cold, it is very cold. Hillsden took a sip of tea, but it was stone cold
- stone-cold
- completely cold; "by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold
- stone-cold
- If someone is stone-cold sober, they are not drunk at all
- stone-dead
- as lifeless as a stone
- stone-dead
- emphasis If you kill something such as an idea or emotion stone-dead, you completely destroy it. The prospect of having to pay a graduate tax until retirement would kill the students' enthusiasm stone dead
- stone-deaf
- absolutely cannot hear
- stone-face
- lithops: any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones
- stone-faced
- stony-faced showing no emotion or friendliness
- stone-faced
- showing no feeling in one's expression, lacking emotion in one's facial expression
- stone-ground
- Stone-ground flour or bread is made from grain that has been crushed between two large, heavy pieces of stone. stone-ground flour is made by crushing grain between two millstones
- stone-thrower
- one who hurls rocks, one who casts stones
- stone-tool industry
- Any of several assemblages of artifacts that display the earliest technology used by humans. These stone tools have survived in great quantities and now serve as the major means of determining hominid activities. Archaeologists have classified distinct stone-tool industries on the basis of style and use and named them after the site of their original identification. The major industries include (in chronological order) the Oldowan, Acheulean, Mousterian, Aurignacian, Solutrean, and Magdalenian
- stone-washed
- Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft. stone-washed jeans etc have been washed with small stones so that they look older and paler
- standing stone
- A prehistoric monument consisting of an upright megalith; often in groups
- stepping stone
- A stone that can be stepped on in crossing something, especially a marsh or creek
- stepping stone
- To be as a stepping stone, a good place to begin or cross over to
Esperanto can make a good stepping stone language to Latin, which may be difficult for amateur linguists.
- stepping stone
- Something used as a way to progress to something or somewhere else
He was full of ambition, and force, and life, intending all sorts of great things, and meaning to make his position a stepping stone to all that was excellent in public life..
- standing stone
- A prehistoric monument of a class found chiefly in the British Isles and northern France, consisting of a single tall, upright megalith. Also called menhir
- stepping stone
- You can describe a job or event as a stepping stone when it helps you to make progress, especially in your career. Many students now see university as a stepping stone to a good job
- stepping stone
- a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing
- stepping stone
- Stepping stones are a line of large stones which you can walk on in order to cross a shallow stream or river
- stepping stone
- any means of advancement; "the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches"
- stepping-stone
- means, path, one step along a journey
- sticks and stone
- a general term for building materials
- Blarney Stone
- A stone set in to the upper wall of Blarney Castle in Ireland, which if kissed is supposed to bestow the gift of the gab or blarney
- Paper Scissors Stone
- The game Rock Paper Scissors
- Rosetta Stone
- (hence) Any source of information crucial to interpreting
My friend’s carefully-compiled notebook was the Rosetta Stone that opened understanding of the physics lectures.
- Rosetta Stone
- A large inscribed stone found near Rosetta, Egypt, in 1799; later used as a basis for understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing
- Scissors Paper Stone
- The game Rock Paper Scissors
- Smithfield stone
- A British unit of weight used in the meat trade, equal to 8 pounds (avoirdupois)
- Stones
- The Rolling Stones, a very successful British rock band formed in the 1960s, still together in the 21st century
And so the Stones somehow make Exile On Main St there, in a rigged-up studio in the basement.
- Tyndall stone
- A dolomitic limestone quarried in the vicinity of Tyndall, Manitoba, Canada, famous for its pervasive mottling and numerous fossils
More and more my father chooses to decorate the stone surfaces with elaborate cipher, even though Tyndall stone, with its mottled coloring, is thought to be resistant to fine carving.
- a rolling stone gathers no moss
- A person who does not keep active will grow mouldy
- a rolling stone gathers no moss
- A person who never settles in one place will never be successful
- alley stone
- A colloquial name for the mineral aluminite
- beat one's head against a stone wall
- to waste effort on a futile project
- benben stone
- A sacred stone found in solar temples in ancient Egypt
According to beliefs, the pyramidion on its apex represents the benben stone, an ancient object that was thought to receive the first rays of the rising sun.
- carved in stone
- unchangeable
Until you sign it, the terms of the contract aren't yet carved in stone.
- cast the first stone
- To act self-righteously in accusing another person, believing that one is blameless
I knew I couldn't cast the first stone as I knew I had weaknesses. ... (But) as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law I have no choice but to move forward and say you cannot accept perjury in your highest officials.
- dry-stone
- Constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar
- grape-stone
- The seed (pip) of a grape
- kidney stone
- A calculus in the kidney; (older term) kidney gravel
- kill two birds with one stone
- To solve two problems with one single action
Biking to work kills two birds with one stone. It saves money travelling and will help to lose weight.
- leave no stone unturned
- To do a task very carefully and thoroughly, not missing any step
James Sutherland insists Australia had no alternative but to cancel the tour. We have left no stone unturned in trying to ensure the tour could proceed as planned but at the end of the day the safety and security of our employees must come first..
- leave no stone unturned
- To search thoroughly for something, looking in every conceivable place
- philosopher's stone
- A substance able to turn base metals into gold or silver, usually by means of the application and distillation of another substance, usually mercury; also sometimes claimed to give immortality
- precious stone
- Any gem, such as a diamond or ruby, that is expensive because of its rarity or desirability; especially one set into a piece of jewelry
- pumice stone
- A piece of pumice; also used as a collective noun
in the midst a little riuer plaide / Emongst the pumy stones, which seemd to plaine / With gentle murmure, that his course they did restraine.
- pumy stone
- Obsolete form of pumice stone
- rai stone
- Any of a class of large, circular stone disks, carved out of limestone, in the island of Yap, Micronesia
- reading stone
- A hemisphere of glass used as a magnifier when placed with its flat side against a surface with text
- rolling stone
- A person who moves around a lot and never settles down
Like a rolling stone?.
- rolling stone
- A womanizer
- set in stone
- permanent; certain; firm
The decision won't be set in stone until we release the documents.
- set in stone
- to make permanent, certain, or firm
The plan looks good, but don't set it in stone until we have discussed it a bit more.
- stoned
- Simple past tense and past participle of stone
- stoned
- High on drugs, especially cannabis (weed)
- stoner
- A machine to remove the stones (pits) from fruit
- stoner
- One who stones
- stones
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stone
- stones
- testicles, balls
- stones
- plural form of stone
- stoning
- Lapidation: punishment by throwing stones, usually resulting in death
- through-stone
- A horizontal slab acting as a gravestone
- turn to stone
- To become completely still; to stop all movement
The lions would creep up on their prey, but turn to stone when the prey looked in their direction.
- two birds with one stone
- any two things that were performed or completed at the same time by one action
- set in stone
- no longer changeable; "the agreement is not yet set in stone"
- A stone
- stane
- A stone
- lapis
- Stones
- intention