stone
- IPA[stəʊn]
英式
- hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material；used in similes and metaphors to refer to weight or lack of feeling, expression, or movement
- throw stones at；remove the stone from (a fruit).
verb: stone, 3rd person present: stones, gerund or present participle: stoning, past tense: stoned, past participle: stoned
noun: stone, plural noun: stones
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名詞
- 1. hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material the houses are built of stone high stone walls
- ▪ used in similes and metaphors to refer to weight or lack of feeling, expression, or movement Isabel stood as if turned to stone the elevator dropped like a stone
- ▪ a small piece of rock found on the ground. 同義詞
- ▪ a meteorite made of rock, as opposed to metal.
- ▪ a calculus; a gallstone or kidney stone.
- 2. a piece of stone shaped for a purpose, especially one of commemoration, ceremony, or demarcation a memorial stone boundary stones 同義詞
- ▪ a gem or jewel a gold ring with a small dark red stone 同義詞
- ▪ short for curling stone
- ▪ a round piece or counter, originally made of stone, used in various board games, especially the Japanese game of go.
- ▪ a large flat table or sheet, originally made of stone and now usually of metal, on which pages of type are made up.
- 3. a hard seed in a cherry, plum, peach, and some other fruits. 同義詞
- 4. British a unit of weight equal to 14 lb (6.35 kg) I weighed 10 stone
- 5. a natural shade of whitish or brownish-grey stone stretch trousers
動詞
- 1. throw stones at three vehicles were stoned and torched two people were stoned to death
- 2. British remove the stone from (a fruit).
- 3. build, face, or pave with stone the honey-stoned, eighteenth-century city
- under the influence of drugs, especially cannabis.
Oxford Dictionary
- under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana: he was up in the deck chair getting stoned
Oxford American Dictionary
- (of a fruit) having had the stone removed: add 50 g of stoned black olives
Oxford Dictionary
- (of a fruit) having had the stone removed: add 3 oz of stoned black olives
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- a flat stone forming part of a coping.
Oxford Dictionary
- a raised stone used singly or in a series as a place on which to step when crossing a stream or ...
Oxford Dictionary
- an inscribed stone found near Rosetta (now called Rashid) on the western mouth of the Nile in ...
- a key to some previously undecipherable mystery or unattainable knowledge: zero point energy could be the Rosetta stone of physics
Oxford Dictionary
- a raised stone used singly or in a series as a place on which to step when crossing a stream or ...
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- IPA[stōn]
美式
- hard solid nonmetallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material: the houses are built of stone high stone walls
- throw stones at: three vehicles were stoned and torched
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