stones

stone

• n.
  • a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

    同义词：rock

  • 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"

    同义词：rock

  • 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 crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

    "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"

    同义词：gemgemstone

  • 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"

    同义词：pitendocarp

  • 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"

  • United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)

    同义词：Harlan StoneHarlan F. StoneHarlan Fisk Stone

  • United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

    同义词：Oliver Stone

  • United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

    同义词：Lucy Stone

  • United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

    同义词：I. F. StoneIsidor Feinstein Stone

  • United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)

    同义词：Harlan Fiske Stone

  • United States architect (1902-1978)

    同义词：Edward Durell Stone

  • a lack of feeling or expression or movement

    "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"

• v.
  • kill by throwing stones at

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

    同义词：lapidate

  • remove the pits from

    同义词：pit

• adj.of any of various dull tannish or grey colors