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Definition: Bone |
BoneAdjective1. Consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body". Noun1. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates. 2. The porous calcified substance from which bones are made. 3. A shade of white the color of bleached bones. Verb1. Study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam". 2. Remove the bones from (an animal). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | One Dollar--the original price of a wife. Note, Adam, who had to give up one bone before he got Eve. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Literature | Bone Bred in the bone. A part of one's nature. "What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh." A natural propensity cannot be repressed. Naturam furcâ expellas, autem usque redibit. Bone (See Albadara; Luz; Os Sacrum .) Bone (To). To filch, as, I boned it. Shakespeare (2 Henry VI., act i. 3) says, "By these ten bones, my lord ..." meaning his ten fingers; and (Hamlet, iii. 2) calls the fingers "pickers and stealers." Putting the two together there can be no doubt that "to bone" means to finger, that is, "to pick and steal." "You thought that I was buried deep Quite decent-like and chary, But from her grave in Mary-bone, They've come and boned your Mary!" Hood: Mary's Ghost. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A hard coallike substance high in noncombustible mineral matter; often found above or below, or in partings between, layers of relatively pure coal b. In the anthracite-coal trade, a carbonaceous shale containing approx. 40% to 60% of noncombustible materials. Syn:bone coal; bony coal c. A tough, fine-grained, gray, white, or reddish quartz d. A layer of hard, impure coal which sometimes grades uniformly into the adjacent softer coal and sometimes is sharply separated from it. Bone is usually a mixture of clay shale particles with the coal, the clayparticles being well distributed. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Similarity in appearance between marijuana cigarettes and animal bones. Definition: Marijuana Cigarette. Context: Used when talking about smoking marijuana and, at the same time, oblique language is desireable. Social Source: Old School Hip Hop Culture . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hook for angling made
of bone, from Swedish
Stone Age, found in
Skåne, SwedenBone is a structural element found in many animal bodies. Together the bones form the skeleton. It has functions of protection, support, attachment for muscles (necessary for locomotion), cell formation and calcium metabolism. It is hard and has very high tensile strength and compressive strength in view of its light weight. Contrary to the common image of bone as a brittle substance, in the body bone has a degree of elasticity. As a composite material mostly made out of hard calcium carbonate. Evolutionary alternatives to an internal bony skeleton are external shellss or chitin carapaces.
Bones consist of living animal cells embedded in a calcium carbonate matrix that makes up the main bone material. In the event of a broken bone, the cells are brought out of semi-stasis to repair the matrix.
Bone is relatively hard for its density, although it is brittle and may snap on impact, creating what is medically called a fracture. The reason for the good material characteristics of bone is that it is not solid calcium carbonate, but instead a mesh, the density of which may vary at different points in the bone. Thus bird bones are generally less dense than mammalian bones.
Some bones are tubular in structure, and the hollow space in the middle is filled with marrow. The marrow is where blood cells are produced and thus critically important to healthy blood. At the ends are connections to other bones at joints which are lubricated and sometimes padded by softer tissue called cartilage.
Cells of Bone
Bone is typically divided in to cells and matrix. Bone cells include osteoblasts, so called Bone Lining Cells, osteocytes and osteoclasts. Osteoblasts are typically viewed as bone forming cells. They are located near to the surface of bone and their functions are to make osteoid and manufacture hormones such as prostaglandin which act on bone itself. Osteoblasts are mononucleate. Active osteoblasts are situated on the surface of osteoid seams* and communicate with each other via gap-junctions. They contain alkaline phosphatase - a chemical which has a role in the mineralisation of bone.
Bone Lining Cells (BLCs) share a common lineage with osteogenesis (bone forming) cells. They function as a a barrier for certain ions, induced osteogenetic cells. They are flattened, mononucleate cells which line bone
Osteocytes originate from osteoblasts which have migrated into and become trapped and surrounded by bone matrix which they themselves produce. The space which they occupy is known as a lacuna. Osteocytes have many processes which reach out to meet osteoblasts probably for the purposes of communication. Their functions include to varying degrees: formation of bone, matrix maintenance and calcium homeostasis. They possibly act as mechano-sensory receptors - regulating the bones response to stress.
If osteoblasts can be described as bone forming cells, osteoclasts role is the reverse: its destruction. These are large, multinucleated cells located on bone surface in howships. They are long lived but not always active.
Bone matrix
Matrix comprises the other major constituent of bone. It has inorganic and organic parts. The inorganic is mainly crystalline mineral salts and calcium, which is present in the form of hydroxylapatite. The matrix is initially laid down as unmineralized osteoid (manufactured by osteoblasts). Mineralisation involves osteoblasts secreting vesicles containing alkaline phosphatase. This cleaves phosphate groups and acts as the foci for calcium and phosphate deposition. The vesicles then rupture and act as a centre for crystals to grow on.
The organic part of matrix is mainly Type I collagen. This is made intracellularly as tropocollagen and the exported. It then associates with fibrils. Also making up the organic part of matrix include various growth factors, the functions of which are not fully known. Other factors present include GAGs, osteocalcin, osteorectin and Cell Attachment Factor.
Forms of bone
Bone can be cortical or cancellous (despite the name this does not denote bone cancer). Cortical bone is compact. It makes up a large fraction of the skeleton but because of its compactness it has a low surface area. Cortical bone towards the surface of bone, whereas cancellous is found towards the centre. This type of bone is spongy and trabecular, and has a high surface area but makes up much less of the skeleton.
Bone can also be either woven or lamellar. Woven bone is put down rapidly during growth or repair. It is so called because its fibres are aligned at random, and as a result has low strength. In contrast lamellar bone has parallel fibres and is much stronger. Woven bone is often replaced by lamellar bone as growth continues.
Bone development
Development of bone (known as ossification) proceeds by the laying down of dense connective tissue and its replacement by a trabecular network forming a primary spongiosum. The two main forms of growth are intramembrous and endochondral. Intramembrous formation occurs in the embryo, and is concerned with flat 'membranous' bones . Here, undifferentiated mesenchyme condenses to form vascularised connective tissue. Cells deposit extracellular material and simultaneously become osteoblasts, which further continue bone development.
Endochondral formation occurs to bones including the limbs and veterbrae. In this model a 'primary centre of ossification' develops within a precursor to bone made of cartilage. A new periosteal bone collar develops. Blood vessels invade which increases the oxygen availability. Osteoprogenitors invade and differentiate in to osteoblasts; these deposit bone on calcified cartilage. The centre grows and extends towards the ends of the bones. However it never reaches the ends but stops short at 'epiphyseal growth plates'. Beyond these, secondary centres of ossification develop and a similar process happens. Secondary centres allow the bone to continue to grow in length throughout childhood. Plate closure denotes the end of bone growth and occurs in adults (though at different times for different bones). If these plates close too early, achondroplasia results - with severely underdeveloped bones. This can be corrected at diagnosis with the distribution of growth hormones.
'Remodeling' is the process of resorption followed by replacement of bone with little change in shape and occurs throughout a persons life. Its purpose is the release of calcium and the repair of micro-damaged bones (from everyday stress).
Bones can be connected to muscles via ligaments.
The science of the interaction of bone and muscle is called biomechanics. The science of bones is called osteology.
Some illnesses afflict human bones, for example osteoporosis and cancer. The joints can be affected by arthritis.
Cut and polished bone from a variety of animals is sometimes used as material for jewelry and other crafts.
See also:
- List of bones of the human skeleton
Bône is a city in Algeria. Its ancient name was Hippo Regius. Bone is also the name of a comic book/graphic novel by Jeff Smith in which the Bone Cousins (Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone) are chased out of their town as a result of a scheme by Phoney Bone and encounter dimwitted quiche-loving rat creatures, taciturn dragons, displaced royalty, and talking bugs.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bone."
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Bone is a popular independent comic book series by Jeff Smith about the adventures of the Bone cousins - the avaricious Phoncible P. "Phoney" Bone, the goofy, cigar-smoking Smiley Bone, and the everyman character Fone Bone - as they are run out of their hometown of Boneville and must make their way across a fantasy landscape pursued by "stupid, stupid rat creatures". Smith's drawings are inspired by animated cartoons and comic strips - a notable influence being Walt Kelly's Pogo - and have a very Disney/Looney Tunes appeal. However, although the series contains a great deal of both visual and character-based comedy, the main storyline is more serious. Drawing its inspiration from J. R. R. Tolkien and others, it deals with the threat to an entire kingdom by the rat creatures and their master, the Lord of the Locusts. Most of the characters are drawn in a more realistic style than the Bone cousins, which reflects the comic's mixture of humour and drama.An attempt to produce a film of Bone through Nickelodeon Films was unsuccessful. According to Smith, Nickelodeon saw the story strictly as children's entertainment, and insisted that the Bone characters be voiced by child actors and that the film had to include pop songs by the likes of Britney Spears.
The series is self-published by Smith under his Cartoon Books imprint, but for a time was published by superhero publisher Image Comics. It is due to end with its 55th issue.
Collections
- Regular series
- Out from Boneville
- The Great Cow Race
- Eyes of the Storm
- The Dragonslayer
- Rockjaw, Master of the Eastern Border
- Old Man's Cave
- Ghost Circles
- Treasure Hunters
- Crown of Horns (forthcoming)
- Spin-offs
- Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails: The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Hero
- Rose
External Link
- Boneville.com - official Bone site
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bone (comic)."
Synonyms: BoneSynonyms: bone(a) (adj), ivory (n), off-white (n), os (n), osseous tissue (n), pearl (n), bone up (v), cram (v), debone (v), drum (v), get up (v), grind away (v), mug up (v), swot (v), swot up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Density | Solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete, conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage; casein, crassamentum; legumin. |
Hardness | Stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant; bone, cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board, deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail; brick, concrete; cement. |
Strength | Adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak; iron grip; grit, bone. |
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Screenplays | Right. Okay, people, you have to tell me these things, alright? I've been frozen for 30 years, okay? Throw me a freakin bone here (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.) This is your ticket outta the bone yard (New Rose Hotel; writing credit: Abel Ferrara) If you try that again, I'll break every bone in your body, one per second (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray) Hack the bone! Hack the bone (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You were expecting someone with a bone through the nose and shrunken head necklace, perhaps (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Lyrics | Ah doggie is nuttin' if he don' have a bone (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men) And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) Ready to bone, ready for dome (Hey Ma; performing artist: Cam'ron) I am my own bone (Promise; performing artist: Eve 6) Said I work my fingers down to the bone (There It Is; performing artist: Ginuwine) | |
Clever | What a dog I got. His favorite bone is in my arm! (references; author: unknown) Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bone (1972) The Closer to the Bone the Sweeter the Meat (1969) Give a Dog a Bone (1965) The Bone Ranger (1957) A Bone for a Bone (1951) | |
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 | A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Using recombinant DNA technology, a transgenic mouse has been engineered whose bone marrow is protected from the toxic effects of chemotherapy by expression of the MDR 1 gene. This animal system allows rapid screening of drugs which inhibit the multidrug transporter and heralds a new era of using transgenic animals for pharmacologic screening. Multidrug resistance resulting from expression of an energy-dependent drug efflux pump encoded by the human MDR gene is a major impediment to effective cancer therapy. Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist). |
 | Leishmania donovani in bone marrow cell. Smear. Parasite. Credit: CDC. |  | Bone marrow smear showing Leishmania donovani parasites in a bone marrow histiocyte from a dog (Giemsa stain). Credit: CDC. |
 | Prussian blue staining for iron particles, which reveals little or no stainable iron in the bone marrow reticulum cells and normoblasts, is the definitive test for iron deficiency during Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA). Credit: CDC. |  | Normal iron stores are seen as dark blue-staining material in the bone marrow. A person unable to maintain a balanced, iron-rich diet may suffer from some degree of Iron Deficiency Anemia, or IDA. Credit: CDC. |
 | Hauling gear on a whale bone sled. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Scientist obtaining otolith (ear bone) for age determination. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Dinosaur bone being prepared for removal from Peterson dinosaur quarry site near Albuquerque, NM. Credit: Mike O'Neill. |  | Leg bone of dinosaur found in New Mexico. Credit: Mike O'Neill. |
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| "Dinobone" by Kevin Walsh Commentary: "Brachiosaurus femur (thigh bone of one of the largest dinosaurs) with University of Zimbabwe geology student Metrinah Ruzvidzo for scale." | "Here .. doggy doggy" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Dog bone treats." |
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 | Crack; pop; adjusting; adjustment; chiropractor; chiropractic; spine; spinal; bones; bone; . |
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Adam Smith | Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another. |
Charles Churchill | He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. |
Edmund Burke | A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. |
Francois Rabelais | Break the bone and suck out the substantific marrow. |
Guillaume | Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. |
Henry David Thoreau | It is life nearest the bone, where it is the sweetest. |
Henry Ward Beecher | It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. |
Jack London | A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry "eternal truths," all skin and bone, served to wonderfully increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public. (reference) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | We met a dog carrying home a bone. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Or you will have a bone to pick with Cosette |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The mere sight of that medley of wet nakedness chilled him to the bone. |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Pa waved the ham bone he held |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is life near the bone where it is sweetest |
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Health | Bone and Tissue Grafts. (references) | |
The bone becomes fragile. (references) | ||
Ordinarily, they live in the bone marrow. (references) | ||
Business | This report reviews the imaging and non-invasive diagnostic equipment subsector, which for the purpose of this analysis, comprises radiology, computerized tomography, nuclear medicine, ecography, MRI, radiation therapy and bone densitometry. (references) | |
Among these products are disposable surgical supplies, rental fees for surgical equipment, bone cement injection equipment for orthopedic surgery, trocar for endoscopy, certain products for percutaneous coronary artery stenting, syringes and needles. (references) | ||
The hospital’s current success is at least partially attributable to its ability to identify with women’s health concerns and supply them with excellent services including comprehensive OB/GYN care, testing for the early detection of breast cancer, reproductive health screening and therapy, psychological support and counseling, ultrasound, osteoporosis screening and prevention programs, dietician services, hormone replacement therapy, bone density tests, fitness evaluation, and day surgery. (references) | ||
Children | Guyana | In June one student suffered a broken collar bone and another a broken elbow as a result of flogging by their teachers, a form of corporal punishment in public schools. (references) |
Economic History | Poland | As a result of the BSE crisis, demand for soybean has grown as a replacement for meat and bone meal. (references) |
Australia | Although their technical culture remained static--depending on wood, bone, and stone tools and weapons--their spiritual and social life was highly complex. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | According to the forensic report, Artola was shot in the back at close range, but the bullet did not cause bone or organ damage. (references) |
Political Economy | POLAND | Poland banned imports of meat and bone meal (MBM) in February 2001from countries that have Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). (references) |
Trade | Thailand | Phytosanitary standards continue to be a source of concern for the United States . For example, Thailand requires certification that the U.S. is free of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) . Although trade has not been significantly affected to date, Thailand wants the U.S. to provide a statement of specific rendering procedures used in order to determine that these procedures are sufficient to inactivate the BSE agent in such products as meat and bone meal which is used for animal feed and in manufacturing pet food. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself. He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. G.J. |
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Ann Richards | That's a consequence of those little hairline fractures. But weight-bearing exercise can build bone, build strength and that's what I do. I was in a gym this morning. |
James Dobson | I'm not opposed to stem cell research, I'm opposed to embryonic stem cell research. You know, there is stem cell research that's going on with bone marrow and blood and other sources. Sure. And that's very exciting research. |
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| "Bone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.26% of the time. "Bone" is used about 2,415 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.26% | 2,397 | 3,727 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.62% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.08% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,415 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "bone" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bone | Last name | 5,000 | 2,635 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bone". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Azmon | N/A | Biblical | Bone of a bone |
| Ezem | N/A | Biblical | A bone |
| Togarmah | N/A | Biblical | Which is all bone |
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| USA | Bone Care International Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "bone": A bone of contention ♦ A bone to pick ♦ all skin and bone ♦ allogeneic bone marrow transplantation ♦ Alveolar Bone Loss ♦ Ankle bone ♦ arm bone ♦ auditory bone ♦ autologous bone marrow transplantation ♦ back bone ♦ be nothing but skin and bone ♦ bone age ♦ bone ash ♦ bone bank ♦ Bone Banks ♦ bone black ♦ Bone breccia ♦ bone Cave ♦ bone cavity ♦ bone cell ♦ Bone Cements ♦ bone char ♦ bone charcoal ♦ bone china ♦ bone coal ♦ Bone Conduction ♦ Bone Cysts ♦ Bone Demineralization Technique ♦ Bone Density ♦ Bone Development ♦ bone dry ♦ bone dust ♦ Bone earth ♦ bone fat ♦ bone fish ♦ bone Gap ♦ bone glass ♦ bone glue ♦ bone head ♦ Bone Infection ♦ Bone lace ♦ bone lazy ♦ Bone Lengthening ♦ Bone Malalignment ♦ bone marrow ♦ bone marrow ablation ♦ bone marrow aspiration ♦ bone marrow biopsy ♦ Bone Marrow Cells ♦ Bone Marrow Disorders ♦ Bone Marrow Examination ♦ bone marrow metastases ♦ Bone Marrow Nei Kung ♦ Bone Marrow Neoplasms ♦ Bone Marrow Purging ♦ bone marrow transplantation ♦ bone meal ♦ bone metastases ♦ Bone Morphogenetic Protein ♦ Bone Morphogenetic Proteins ♦ Bone Nails ♦ Bone Neoplasms ♦ bone of contention ♦ bone of difference ♦ bone oil ♦ Bone Plates ♦ Bone problems ♦ Bone Regeneration ♦ Bone Remodeling ♦ Bone Resorption ♦ bone scan ♦ bone seeker ♦ bone setter ♦ bone shaker ♦ bone shark ♦ Bone spavin ♦ Bone Substitutes ♦ bone taint ♦ bone tissue ♦ bone to pick ♦ Bone Transplantation ♦ bone turquoise ♦ bone up ♦ bone up on ♦ Bone whale ♦ Bone Wires ♦ bone yard ♦ break bone fever ♦ calf bone ♦ Cannon bone ♦ Canon bone ♦ capitate bone ♦ carpal bone ♦ Cartilage bone ♦ cavalry bone ♦ cheek bone ♦ coffin bone ♦ collar bone ♦ Coronary bone ♦ Cramp bone ♦ crazy bone. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bone": bone-ache, bone-achingly, Bone-a-fide, bone-against-bone, bone-against-muscle, bone-ash, bone-ash cup, bone-based, bone-box, bone-bruising, bone-cage, bone-carvings, bone-chaste, bone-chilling, bone-china, bone-clear, bone-coloured, bone-comb, bone-conduction, bone-covered, bone-cracking, bone-crackingly, bone-crunching, bone-crushing, bone-damp, bone-deep, bone-dry, bone-dust, bone-eating, bone-face, bone-fingers, bone-forming cell, bone-framed, bone-graft, bone-grinding, Bone-growth, bone-handled, bone-headed, bone-headed dinosaur, bone-healer, bone-hole, bone-idle, bone-jarring, bone-juddering, bone-lazy, bone-like, bone-lining, bone-loading, bone-marrow, bone-marrow-cytogenic, bone-meal, bone-melting, bone-mill, bone-pale, bone-poor, bone-rated, bone-ridged, bone-scanning, bone-seeker, bone-selfish, bone-setter, bone-setters, bone-setting, bone-shadow, bone-shaker, bone-shaking, bone-shuddering, bone-splintering, bone-splinters, bone-strengthening, bone-structure, bone-structures, bone-substitute, bone-thin, bone-thinning, bone-tired, bone-twisting, bone-weariness, bone-weary, bone-white, bone-whiteness, bone-workers, bone-working, bone-wrenching, bone-yard. | |
Ending with "bone": back-bone, breast-bone, cheek-bone, collar-bone, five-bone, rag-and-bone, T-bone. | |
Containing "bone": brittle-bone disease, herring-bone-brick, rag-and-bone man, rag-and-bone-man, T-bone steak. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bone thug n harmony | 2,803 | 93.3 bone | 226 |
bone crusher | 2,473 | t bone | 223 |
bone thug | 1,916 | funny bone | 214 |
dog bone | 1,414 | bone disease | 208 |
bone | 1,355 | bizzy bone lyrics | 207 |
bone cancer | 1,243 | funny bone comedy club | 177 |
bizzy bone | 1,034 | bone thug in harmony | 172 |
bone spur | 997 | bone cancer symptom | 167 |
bone thug and harmony | 656 | bone harmony lyrics thug | 150 |
bone thug n harmony lyrics | 508 | bone thug n harmony picture | 150 |
bone crusher lyrics | 473 | back bone | 141 |
bone scan | 426 | bizzy bone picture | 139 |
bone thug lyrics | 397 | bone marrow donor | 130 |
bone marrow | 368 | the bone | 130 |
arfies bone | 358 | layzie bone | 129 |
bone marrow transplant | 346 | bone china | 126 |
krayzie bone | 287 | bad to the bone | 122 |
bone density test | 238 | bone yard | 122 |
107.7 bone | 236 | bone marrow donation | 119 |
bone density | 228 | aid bone conduction external hearing | 119 |
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| Language | Translations for "bone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | been (leg, paw). (various references) | |
Albanian | qëroj nga kockat, lëmoshë (alms, charity, dole, pittance), kockë (backbone, ossicle), halë (needle), fortesë korseje, eshtër, asht. (various references) | |
Arabic | هيكل عظمي (skeleton), نزع العظم, عاج (ivory), عظم (become mighty, bulk, ennoble, enthrone, exaggerate, glorify, glory, loftiness, magnify, os, pinnacle, value), جسد (body, bulk, corpus, embody, externalize, frame, impersonate, incarnate, incorporate, materialize, model, mold, mould, personate, personify, reify, shape, substantiate), درس بإجهاد. (various references) | |
Asturian | güesu. (various references) | |
Aymara | ch'aca. (various references) | |
Basque | hezur. (various references) | |
Bemba | ifupa. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | ohkin. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | костен (bony, osseous), кост, кокален, кокал, отделям от кокалите, изваждам костите на. (various references) | |
Catalan | os. (various references) | |
Cebuano | bukog. (various references) | |
Chamorro | to'lang. (various references) | |
Chinese | 骨頭 (man of character), 骨法 , 骨头 (bones), 骨 . (various references) | |
Cornish | ascorn. (various references) | |
Czech | kost (cracker, skirt). (various references) | |
Danish | ben (leg, paw), knogle (mouth, os, osmium). (various references) | |
Dutch | bot (abrupt, addled, blunt, crude, foolish, raw, rough, stupid, unrefined, unwrought), been (arm, leg, paw), schonk, knok. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | tullu. (various references) | |
Esperanto | osto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bein (leg, paw), knota. (various references) | |
Farsi | گرفتن یابرداشتن , تقاضاکردن (Adjure, Beseech, Demand, Putin, Solicit, Sue), خواستن (Ask, Beg, Call, Choose, Desire, Intend, Solicit, Want, Will, Wish), استخوان بندی (Anatomy, Framework, Skeleton), استخوان , درخواست کردن (Apply, Beg, Petition, Plead, Pray, Request, Solicit, Supplicate). (various references) | |
Finnish | luu. (various references) | |
French | os (bones). (various references) | |
Frisian | bonke. (various references) | |
German | knochen (bones, knucklebone, large door-key), Gräte (fish bone), Bein (foot, leg, paw). (various references) | |
Greek | κόκαλο, κόκκαλο (picker). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | asht. (various references) | |
Hebrew | גרם (body, cause, strength). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csont (osteoid). (various references) | |
Icelandic | bein. (various references) | |
Indonesian | balung (cockscomb), tulang, menulangi, mencuri (filch, nab, pilfer, sneak, thieve). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | sauniq. (various references) | |
Irish | cnÚmh. (various references) | |
Italian | osso (over plus, over sheets, overs, paper overs, plus sheets, spoils), spina (fishbone, jack, jumper, male, male connector, plug, prick, prickle, spine, tap, thorn). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 骨 , 骨 (knack, skill). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほね. (various references) | |
Kongo | visi. (various references) | |
Korean | 뼈 (bones, boney, Bony). (various references) | |
Lombard | òss. (various references) | |
Macedonian | koska. (various references) | |
Malay | tulang. (various references) | |
Manx | jeechraughey (bone as meat), giarrey ny crauenyn ass (bone as meat), craue [f] (crow, whine, wild garlic), craue (crow, whine, wild garlic). (various references) | |
Maori | iwi. (various references) | |
Maya | baak. (various references) | |
Mohawk | ohstyen'. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ben (leg, paw). (various references) | |
Occitan | òs. (various references) | |
Papago | oh'o. (various references) | |
Papiamen | wesu, weso. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onebay.(various references) | |
Polish | kość. (various references) | |
Portuguese | osso. (various references) | |
Provencal | òs. (various references) | |
Romanian | os (bones, quick). (various references) | |
Romansch | oss. (various references) | |
Romany | kòkalos. (various references) | |
Ruanda | amagupfa. (various references) | |
Russian | кость. (various references) | |
Samoan | ivi. (various references) | |
Scottish | cnàimh. (various references) | |
Sepedi | leaapo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kost, koštan. (various references) | |
Shona | bvupa. (various references) | |
Spanish | hueso (pit, stone). (various references) | |
Sranan | bonyo. (various references) | |
Swahili | mfupa. (various references) | |
Swazi | lí-sâmbo. (various references) | |
Swedish | ben (bones, leg, legs, paw), knota (grouse, grumble, knot, murmur, mutter, repine). (various references) | |
Tagalog | butó (seed). (various references) | |
Thai | เรียนอย่างหนัก, ถอดกระดูก, กระดูก. (various references) | |
Turkish | tartışma konusu (contention, moot point, point at issue), kemikten yapılmış, kemiklerini ayıklamak, kemik (osseous, osteo-, osteoid), kemík, kılçık (awn, fishbone, fish's spine, spine, string), kılçığını ayırmak, anlaşmazlık konusu (apple of discord). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sьсk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тіло (body, carcass, corpus, flesh), кістяк (body, cadre, carcass, skeleton), кістяни вироби, кістка (ossification), кастаньєти (castanets), гральні кості (dice, tat), останки (ashes, remains), зубрити (grind away, sap, swank, swot), знімати м'ясо з кісток, арештовувати (attach, pull), безглузда помилка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xương chất xương, thân thể cái gây tranh chấp, sống lâu (longeval, long-lived), không nghi ngại gì, không ngập ngừng (unfaltering), không muốn mở miệng nữa giữ sức khoẻ tốt, không giấu giếm sống dai, giữ được trẻ lâu không do dự, chất sừng cá voi đồ bằng xương, chất ngà răng, chất ngà, đi đến chỗ túng quẫn ăn vào tận xương tuỷ. (various references) | |
Welsh | asgwrn. (various references) | |
Yucatec | baak (horn). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | osteon. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exossavit, os. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | ban. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 19, Verse 36 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Egeneto gar tauta ina h grafh plhrwqh ostoun ou suntribhsetai autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Facta sunt enim haec ut scriptura impleatur os non comminuetis ex eo |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ðas þing wæren ge-worðan þæt þætgewrit wære ge-fylled. ne for-breke ge nanban on hym. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And these thingis weren don, that the scripture schulde be fulfillid, Ye schulen not breke a boon of hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | These thinges were done that the scripture shuld be fulfilled: Ye shall not breake a boone of him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | These things came about so that the Writings might be true, No bone of his body will be broken. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 19, Verse 36 |
| Cebuano | Kay kining mga butanga nahitabo aron matuman ang kasulatan nga nagaingon, "Walay bukog niya nga mabali." |
| Croatian | jer se to dogodilo da se ispuni Pismo: Nijedna mu se kost neæe slomiti. |
| Danish | Thi disse Ting skete, for at Skriften skulde opfyldes: "Intet Ben skal sønderbrydes derpå". |
| Dutch | Want deze dingen zijn geschied, opdat de Schrift vervuld worde: Geen been van Hem zal verbroken worden. |
| Finnish | Sillä tämä tapahtui, että kirjoitus kävisi toteen: "Älköön häneltä luuta rikottako". |
| French | Ces choses sont arrivées, afin que l`Écriture fût accomplie: Aucun de ses os ne sera brisé. |
| German | Denn solches ist geschehen, daß die Schrift erfüllet würde: "Ihr sollt ihm kein Bein zerbrechen." |
| Hungarian | Mert azért lettek ezek, hogy beteljesedjék az írás: Az õ csontja meg ne törettessék. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hal itu terjadi supaya terlaksana apa yang tertulis dalam Alkitab, yaitu "Tidak satu pun dari tulang-Nya akan dipatahkan". |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena segala perkara itu telah jadi, supaya sampailah kata Alkitab itu: Sebilah tulang-Nya pun tiada akan dipatahkan. |
| Italian | Questo infatti avvenne perché si adempisse la Scrittura: Non gli sarà spezzato alcun osso. |
| Maori | I meatia hoki enei mea, kia rite ai te karaipiture, E kore tetahi iwi ona e whatiia. |
| Norwegian | For dette skjedde forat Skriften skulde opfylles: Intet ben skal brytes på ham. |
| Portuguese | Porque isto aconteceu para que se cumprisse a escritura: Nenhum dos seus ossos será quebrado. |
| Rumanian | Aceste lucruri s`au kntkmplat, ca sq se kmplineascq Scriptura: ,,Niciunul din oasele Lui nu va fi sfqrkmat.`` |
| Shuar | Yaunchu Yus-Chichamnum aarma uminkiati tusa Túrunaiti: "Ni ukunchin kupirkachartatui" tu aarmaiti. |
| Spanish | Porque estas cosas sucedieron así para que se cumpliese la Escritura que dice: Ninguno de sus huesos será quebrado. |
| Swahili | Jambo hilo lilitendwa ili Maandiko Matakatifu yatimie: "Hapana hata mfupa wake mmoja utakaovunjwa." |
| Swedish | Ty detta skedde, för att skriftens ord skulle fullbordas: "Intet ben skall sönderslås på honom." |
| Ukrainian | о це сталось тому, щоб збулося Писання: Йому кості ламати не будуть! |
| Uma | Tohe'i jadi' bona madupa' napa to te'uki' owi hi rala Buku Tomoroli' to mpo'uli': "Uma mpai' hamehaa' wuku-na to rapui'." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bone": boned, bonefish, bonefishes, bonefishing, bonefishings, bonehead, boneheaded, boneheadedness, boneheadednesses, boneheads, boneless, bonemeal, bonemeals, boner, boners, bones, boneset, bonesets, bonesetter, bonesetters, boney, boneyard, boneyards. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bone": aitchbone, anklebone, backbone, breastbone, cheekbone, chinbone, collarbone, cuttlebone, debone, fishbone, hambone, herringbone, hipbone, jawbone, knucklebone, marrowbone, pinbone, redbone, ringbone, shacklebone, shinbone, tailbone, thighbone, trombone, whalebone, wishbone. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bone": aitchbones, ambones, anklebones, backbones, beribboned, breastbones, cheekbones, chinbones, collarbones, crossbones, cuttlebones, deboned, deboner, deboners, debones, fishbones, gobonee, hamboned, hambones, herringboned, herringbones, hipbones, jawboned, jawboner, jawboners, jawbones, knucklebones, lazybones, marrowbones, pinbones, rawboned, redbones, ribboned, ringbones, sawbones, sawboneses, shacklebones, shinbones, tailbones, thighbones, trombones, umbones, unboned, whalebones, wishbones. (additional references) | |
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"Bone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abonae, Abune, Baneh, banej, banen, baney, bdna, benef, benew, benez, Beona, Bhoe, bina, bine, bineo, binex, Bini, bioner, blone, Bnoc, b'now, bobe, bobnet, bocn, bodne, boe, boeh, Boeno, bofe, boge, bogner, bohea, bohn, Bohnen, Bohnke, boie, boin, bome, Bonae, bonam, bonar, bonc, bonde, bonee, boneen, Boneji, bonet, bonge, bonie, Boniek, bonil, boniz, Bonjela, bonna, bonnee, Bonni, bonse, bont, Bonte, bonum, bonuw, bonx, Bonz, boobe, booe, booner, booney, bose, bote, Botna, boue, Bouna, bove, bowe, boxe, boye, boze, brone, bune, Bunne, cbone, Ebonex, obene, obine, obje, obn, obne, tbone, vone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bone" (pronounced bō"n) |
| 3 | b ō" n | hipbone, trombone. |
| 2 | -ō" n | alone, atone, bemoan, blown, bourguignon, clone, Cologne, condone, cone, crone, cyclone, dethrone, disown, drone, flown, groan, grown, homegrown, hone, intone, known, Leone, loan, lone, moan, Mon, outgrown, outshone, overblown, overgrown, overthrown, own, phone, postpone, prone, roan, Scone, sewn, shone, shown, sown, stone, throne, thrown, tone, trone, unbeknown, unknown, zone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ebon. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-o" | |
-1 letter: ben, eon, neb, nob, obe, one. | |
-2 letters: be, bo, en, ne, no, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-o" | |
+1 letter: beano, beton, boned, boner, bones, boney, bonne, bonze, borne, ebons, ebony, noble. | |
+2 letters: beacon, beanos, beckon, begone, beknot, belong, bemoan, benzol, besnow, betons, betony, beyond, biogen, bizone, blonde, bonded, bonder, boners, bonged, bonier, bonked, bonnes, bonnet, bonnie, bonzer, bonzes, borane, boreen, bounce, bourne, bovine, bowmen, broken, bronze, bygone, debone, enrobe, entomb, enwomb, nobble, nobler, nobles, reborn, unrobe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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