stone

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
2. A small piece of stone, a pebble.
3. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
4. A unit of mass 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.
5. The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
6. A hard, stone-like deposit.
7. A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
8. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
9. A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
10. A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
11. (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
12. (obsolete) A testicle.
13. 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.

Verb

1. To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
2. To wall with stones.
3. To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
4. To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
5. (slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
6. (slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
7. To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Adj

1. Constructed of stone.
2. Having the appearance of stone.
3. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
4. Used as an intensifier.
5. (slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

Adv

1. As a stone (used with following adjective).
2. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).

Sinónimos

rock

🪨

pit

pebble

boulder

seed

kernel

pip

calculus

gem

💎

lapidate

throw stones at

hill

stones

stony

gemstone

mountain

⛰️

flint

endocarp

made of stone

jewel

nut

cliff

coral

🪸

big

unfeeling

lump

core

clay

rocky

rough

pelt with stones

bullet

small stone

gravel

white rock

gravestone

money

💸

concretion

flat

ore

hard rock

stone block

hardcore

hard-core

harsh

headstone

🪦

heart

❤️

hearth

heartless

heaviness

heavy

hone

impassive

indurate

inexorable

insensate

insensitive

intense

iron

jade

jewellery

keen

light gray

loud

man

👨

masonry

memorial tablet

metal

🤘

metalled

milepost

milestone

millstone

mineral

nub

nucleus

nugget

obdurate

outcrop

pelt

piece

pierce

pith

plate

polish

🇵🇱

precipice

prison

projectile

ravine

red

round

rub

ruffianly

severe

sharp

slab

slope

small

spear

steel

steely

stern

stiff

stone wall

strict

tablet

tall

token

tombstone

tough

unemotional

unforgiving

unrelenting

wacke

wage war

white

wintry

a stone

bit of gravel

bowlder

grinding stone

large stone

sharp-pointed

stone slab

throw stones

type of

calculus I

round stone

large rock

lithiasis

pyrene

unmalleable

metate

coarse sand

ball-breaker

ball-buster

printer’s table

iron, etc. used in weighing

cold-eyed

building stone

conglomerate rock

infinitesimal analysis

lump of rock

sharpen a knife

absence

slip stone

absolute

austere

bad

👎

bare

bathing

battery

🔋

beige

bijou

bitter

bitumen

black

blistering

block

brick

brittle

brutal

calculation

calculous

card

carve

cave

chisel

cobble

coign

computation

dead

💀

dour

drunk

earthen

emotionless

fence

fireplace

flinty

gibber

gist

glass

gorge

grain

grindstone

grit

hard

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/stəʊn/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: ston

Herdado de Old English: stān

Relativo a neerlandés: steen

Relativo a alemán: Stein

Relativo a dinamarqués: -

Relativo a sueco: sten

Relativo a noruegués: stein

Relativo a ruso: стена́

Relativo a grego antigo: στία

Relativo a albanés: shtëng

Relativo a sánscrito: स्त्यायते

In summary

From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
See also Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.