bone

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
4. A bonefish.
5. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
6. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
7. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
8. The framework of anything.
9. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
10. (informal) A dollar.
11. (informal) The wishbone formation.
12. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
13. (slang) A domino or die.
14. (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
15. A reward.

Adj

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Verb

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
2. To fertilize with bone.
3. To put whalebone into.
4. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
5. (slang) To have sexual intercourse (with).
6. To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
7. To study.
8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
9. To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.

Verb

To apprehend, steal.

Verb

To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Sinónimos

skeleton

debone

bony

grind away

fishbone

get up

seed

cram

bone up

swot up

mug up

os

osseous tissue

pearl

drum

🥁

off-white

screw

ivory

osseous

swot

bonk

root

fuck

👉👌

backbone

nail

bones

boney

leg bone

long bone

osteal

hard seed

Alawa

domino piece

boned

cheekbone

collarbone

domino

drill

enter

hip

kernel

mastoid

mesenchyme

mug

pit

plow

plug

poke

relic

shell

🐚

shoehorn

skinny

skull

💀

study

stuff

stupid

tap

thin

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/bəʊn/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: bon

Herdado de Old English: bān

Relativo a escocés: bane

Relativo a frisón setentrional: bien

Relativo a frisón occidental: bien

Relativo a neerlandés: been

Relativo a alemán: Bein

Relativo a alemán: Gebein

Relativo a sueco: ben

Relativo a noruegués: -

Relativo a islandés: bein

Relativo a bretón: benañ

Relativo a latín: perfinēs

Relativo a Avestan: 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈

Relativo a Old Norse: beinn

Relativo a Middle English: bain

Relativo a escocés: bein

Relativo a islandés: beinn

Relativo a noruegués: bein

In summary

From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.