stone

adjective

1. of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

Similar word(s): chromatic

adverb

1. As a stone (used with following adjective).

- My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.

2. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).

- I went stone crazy after she left.

noun

1. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

Similar word(s): rock

Definition categories: object

2. 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

Definition categories: man–made

3. material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

- stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries

Similar word(s): rock

Definition categories: substance, material, stuff

4. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

- she had jewels made of all the rarest stones

Similar word(s): gem, gemstone

Definition categories: substance, crystal

5. 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

Definition categories: quantity

6. 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

Similar word(s): endocarp, pit

Definition categories: plant, pericarp

7. a lack of feeling or expression or movement

- he must have a heart of stone

- her face was as hard as stone

Definition categories: attribute, chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness

verb

1. kill by throwing stones at

- People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock

Similar word(s): lapidate

Definition categories: contact, kill

2. remove the pits from

Similar word(s): pit

Definition categories: change, remove, take, withdraw