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Definition: Stone |
StoneAdjective1. Of or relating to or made of stone; "a stone house". 2. Of any of various dull tannish-gray colors. Noun1. A lump of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me". 2. Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust. 3. 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". 4. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry. 5. The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed. 6. (British) an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds. 7. United States filmmaker (born in 1946). 8. United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893). 9. United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989). 10. : United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946). 11. : United States architect (1902-1978). 12. : a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body. 13. : a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone". Verb1. Kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran". 2. Remove the pits from, as of certain fruit such as peaches. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | STONE A Structured and Open Environment: a project supported by the German Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT) to design, implement and distribute a SEE for research and teaching. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Bible | Stone Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events (Gen. 28:18; Josh. 24:26, 27; 1 Sam. 7:12, etc.). They were gathered out of cultivated fields (Isa. 5:2; comp. 2 Kings 3:19). This word is also used figuratively of believers (1 Pet. 2:4, 5), and of the Messiah (Ps. 118:22; Isa. 28:16; Matt. 21:42; Acts 4:11, etc.). In Dan. 2:45 it refers also to the Messiah. He is there described as "cut out of the mountain." (See ROCK.) A "heart of stone" denotes great insensibility (1 Sam. 25:37). Stones were set up to commemorate remarkable events, as by Jacob at Bethel (Gen. 28:18), at Padan-aram (35:4), and on the occasion of parting with Laban (31:45-47); by Joshua at the place on the banks of the Jordan where the people first "lodged" after crossing the river (Josh. 6:8), and also in "the midst of Jordan," where he erected another set of twelve stones (4:1-9); and by Samuel at "Ebenezer" (1 Sam. 7:12). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Chemical Industry | Colour:light kaki grey. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To see stones in your dreams, foretells numberless perplexities and failures. To walk among rocks, or stones, omens that an uneven and rough pathway will be yours for at least a while. To make deals in ore-bearing rock lands, you will be successful in business after many lines have been tried. If you fail to profit by the deal, you will have disappointments. If anxiety is greatly felt in closing the trade, you will succeed in buying or selling something that will prove profitable to you. Small stones or pebbles, implies that little worries and vexations will irritate you. If you throw a stone, you will have cause to admonish a person. If you design to throw a pebble or stone at some belligerent person, it denotes that some evil feared by you will pass because of your untiring attention to right principles. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Automatic 50 stone smoking kiln [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A rock-like concretion in timber composed mainly of CaCO3, found occasionally in a few tropical species, particularly Iroko(Chlorophora excelsa). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | A crystalline inclusion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Stone (1 syl.). The sacred stone of the Caaba (q.v.) is, according to Arab tradition, the guardian angel of Paradise turned into stone. When first built by Abraham into the wall of the shrine it was clear as crystal, but it has become black from being kissed by sinful man. A hag-stone. A flint with a natural perforation through it. Sometimes hung on the key of an outside door to ward off the hags. Sometimes such a stone used to be hung round the neck "for luck"; sometimes on the bedstead to prevent nightmare; and sometimes on a horse-collar to ward off disease. Leave no stone unturned. Omit no minutiae if you would succeed. After the defeat of Mardonius at Platæa (B.C. 477), a report was current that the Persian General had left great treasures in his tent. Polycrates (4 syl.) the Theban sought long but found them not. The Oracle of Delphi, being consulted, told him "to leave no stone unturned," and the treasures were discovered. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A mineral or group of consolidated minerals either in mass or in a fragment of pebble or larger size b. A stony meteorite. c. A cut and polished gem or other precious mineral (but not a synthetic compound used in ornamentation). d. Crushed or naturally angular particles of rock that will pass a 3-in (7.6-cm) sieve and be retained on a No. 4 U.S. Standard siev. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | STONE. Two stone under weight, or wanting; an eunuch. Stone doublet; a prison. Stone dead; dead as a stone. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Sports & Leisure | The stone, also called rock or granite, is round, highly polished, and weights from about 40 to a maximum of 44 pounds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rock is a substance composed of minerals and classified according to mineral composition. Rocks are generally classified by the processes that formed them, and are thus separated into igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Igneous rocks are formed from molten magma, sedimentary rocks by deposition and compression of particulate matter, and metamorphic rocks by either of the first two categories after being changed by the effects of temperature and pressure. In cases where organic material leaves behind an imprint of itself in rock, the result is known as a fossil.
See also:
- List of rocks
- List of minerals and stone types
- List of stone
- Quarrying
- Rock used in sculpting.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rock (geology)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Stoning is a form of capital punishment in which a human is killed by having stones thrown at them repeatedly.It has been used since ancient times to punish people judged as criminals; these included prostitutes, adulterers, and murderers.
Stoning has been criticized in the West and in the US as cruel and its use has been abandoned for methods believed to be more humane, such as electrocution, the gas chamber and lethal injection.
This form of execution is still practiced in some Islamic countries governed by Sharia law, namely: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates. The person to be killed is wrapped in a sheet and buried from the waist down. The mob then pelts the culprit repeatedly with rocks. The stones are small enough so that a single stone cannot cause death. In some places, if the criminal manages to become free, and escapes, further punishment is canceled.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stoning."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STONE | English | STructured and OpeN Environment | Computer - (FZI Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| st | English | Stone | Meteorology & Standards |
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Synonyms: StoneSynonyms: calculus (n), concretion (n), endocarp (n), gem (n), gemstone (n), rock (n), lapidate (v), pit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt. |
Attack | Throw a stone, throw stones at; stone, lapidate, pelt; hurl at, hurl against, hurl at the head of; rock |
Density | Solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete, conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage; casein, crassamentum; legumin. |
Engraving | Graver, burin, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp. |
Gravity | Weighing, ponderation, trutination; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod. |
Interment | Monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone; memento mori; hatchment, stone; obelisk, pyramid. |
Killing | Shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coupe de grace. |
Materials | Noun: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber. |
Punishment | Tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate; masthead, keelhaul. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were I'm on drugs (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Every stone brought from France (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood) Forget that there are places in the world that aren't made out of stone. That there's a - there's a - there's something inside that's yours, that they can't touch (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese) Stone. George Stone (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness) | |
Lyrics | Like a stone I'll wait for you there (Like A Stone; performing artist: AUDIOSLAVE) Turn to stone when you comin' home, I can't go on. (Turn To Stone; performing artist: Electric Light Orchestra) Eyes of stone observe the trends (Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) You're gonna be crashing into stone walls again and again (You're Only Human (Second Wind); performing artist: Billy Joel) Ive been through fire and birth stone (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob) | |
Clever | Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. (references; author: Malabar Proverb) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Great Stone Face (1968) Raiders of the Stone Ring (1968) Fishing at the Stone Weir: Part 1 (1967) The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965) Curse of the Stone Hand (1964) | |
Song Titles | In The House of Stone and Light (performing artist: Martin Page) I'm Stone in Love With You (performing artist: The Stylistics) Papa Was A Rolling Stone (performing artist: The Temptations) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Placement of corner stone for the CDC Clifton Road building. Credit: CDC. |  | Kelley, Stone and Kock view the ERC’s First Phase of Construction. Credit: NASA. |
 | Stone marking end of comparator, a 100-meter very stable short base line Comparator was used to calibrate and intercompare various measuring instruments This comparator was at Shelton, Nebraska, near Station Shelton East Base Fig. No. 2, Appendix No. 3, Report of Superintendent ... 1901, p. 244. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | 500 lb. stone being lowered for Brown Valley Base 98th Meridian survey Jasper Bilby on right. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Fishing in paradise - the stone crab fishery at Islamorada. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The Nahant Hotel at Long Beach. This hotel was constructed of stone and had over one hundred rooms. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Commander Maurice Hecht, Commander Glenn Moore, and Bud Stone at the Barrow headquarters. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Fishing boat outfitted for spiny lobster and stone crab. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Stone crab boat at A. P. Bell Fish. Credit: Fisheries. |  | 100,000 pounds of stone later...Volunteers smile and relax after completion of the work. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Grave Stone" by Peter Dillon Commentary: "Grave Stone." | "Head Stone" by Brett.todcorporation Commentary: "Photo of head stone near Coogee." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristophanes | Under every stone lurks a politician. |
Dante (Alighieri) | I wept not, so to stone within I grew. |
Francis Bacon | Virtue is like a rich stone -- best plain set. |
Homer | Your heart is always harder than a stone. |
Lucretius | The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. |
Malabar Proverb | Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. |
Publilius Syrus | A rolling stone can gather no moss. |
W. Clement Stone | Events tend to recur in cycles... |
| Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. | |
| Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | It would be a strange catalogue of things, that industry provided and made use of, about every loaf of bread, before it came to our use, if we could trace them; iron, wood, leather, bark, timber, stone, bricks, coals, lime, cloth, dying drugs, pitch, tar, masts, ropes, and all the materials made use of in the ship, that brought any of the commodities made use of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost impossible, at least too long, to reckon up. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | "True" Socialism appeared to kill these two birds with one stone. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1894) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And I tripted over a stone. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | On coming out of the water, he struck against a stone, and fell upon his knees |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He brought forth a great stone jar of whisky from the locker and filled the decanter slowly, bending now and then to see how much he had poured in. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ashfork and Kingman and stone mountains again, where water must be hauled and sold |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | To what end, pray, is so much stone hammered |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Ureteroscopic stone removal. (references) | |
A type of kidney stone caused by infection. (references) | ||
As a stone grows or moves, blood may appear in the urine. (references) | ||
Business | It can be used as a substitute for stone. (references) | |
Porcelain stone tiles are featuring more fossil-stone looks that offer the ease of maintenance of ceramic tiles. (references) | ||
Rustic tiles and Saturnia stone look like marble but are only a fraction of the cost, and maintenance is easier. (references) | ||
Children | India | Press reports described horrific conditions in many mental hospitals elsewhere in the country, including one where inmates were chained in a row on a stone floor in an ill-lit room during the daytime. (references) |
Economic History | Singapore | There is a good market potential for new stone fruit varieties. (references) |
Swaziland | Natural resources: asbestos, coal, diamonds, quarry stone, timber, talc. (references) | |
Political Economy | AUSTRALIA | Concerns remain with Australia's restrictions on California table grapes, Florida citrus, stone fruit, chicken (fresh, cooked, and frozen), pork, apples, and corn. (references) |
Trade | Korea | On its negative export list, Korea also prohibits the export of 13 items by Harmonized System 6 digit classification, including whale meat, uncut pieces of stone (granite, etc), and dog fur or skin products. (references) |
Argentina | The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Government of Argentina (GOA) have recently signed sanitary agreements allowing imports into Argentina of U.S. fresh, chilled, and frozen pork (May 2001), and citrus and stone fruit from some counties in the states of California and Florida (March 2001). (references) | |
Travel | Chad | The "campement de Waza" is a hotel with a collection of small stone cottages arranged down the side of a hill offering a scenic restaurant/bar overlooking the park. (references) |
Worker Rights | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | There were some reports of significant visual impairment by visual display unit workers, and some reports of hearing impairment by power station and stone crushing employees. (references) |
Peru | Other children reportedly are employed at times in dangerous occupations or in high-risk environments, such as informal gold mining, garbage collection, loading and unloading produce in markets, brick making, coca cultivation, or work in stone quarries and fireworks factories, among others. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ALONE, adj. In bad company. In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By spark and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the stone, Had cherished secretly alone. Booley Fito |
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| "Stone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.35% of the time. "Stone" is used about 7,829 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) | 88.35% | 6,917 | 1,400 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.54% | 903 | 7,927 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.1% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,829 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "stone" 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 |
| Stone | Last name | 59,000 | 158 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "stone". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Peterkin | N/A | N/A | A rock or stone |
| Botros | N/A | Arabic | A rock or stone |
| Boutros | N/A | Arabic | A rock or stone |
| Bedros | N/A | Armenian | A rock or stone |
| Abana | N/A | Biblical | Made of stone |
| Cephas | N/A | Biblical | A rock or stone |
| Eben-ezer | N/A | Biblical | The stone of help |
| Hali | N/A | Biblical | A precious stone |
| Ispah | N/A | Biblical | A jasper stone |
| Leshem | N/A | Biblical | A precious stone |
| Pedahzur | N/A | Biblical | Stone of redemption |
| Peninnah | N/A | Biblical | Precious stone |
| Peter | N/A | Biblical | A rock or stone |
| Punon | N/A | Biblical | Precious stone |
| Zur | N/A | Biblical | Stone |
| Petar | N/A | Bulgarian | A rock or stone |
| Petia | N/A | Bulgarian | A rock or stone |
| Pere | N/A | Catalan | A rock or stone |
| Petr | N/A | Czech | A rock or stone |
| Peder | N/A | Danish | A rock or stone |
| Steen | Male | Danish | A stone |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Stone Electronic Technology Limited | South Korea | Il Shin Stone Co., Ltd. |
| United Kingdom | McCarthy & Stone plc | USA | American Stone Industries, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Stone, ID 2. Stone, KY |
Expressions using "stone": a rolling stone gathers no moss ♦ abrading stone ♦ air stone ♦ altar stone ♦ Alum stone ♦ Amazon stone ♦ apex stone ♦ arch stone ♦ armenian stone ♦ artificial lithographic stone ♦ asphalt stone ♦ Assian stone ♦ Atlantic stone ♦ azure stone ♦ bath stone ♦ big Stone City ♦ big Stone County ♦ big Stone Gap ♦ bile stone ♦ black stone ♦ bladder stone ♦ blarney stone ♦ blow with a stone ♦ blue stone ♦ Bologna stone ♦ Bolognian stone ♦ bottom stone ♦ boundary stone ♦ Bowing stone ♦ Brain stone coral ♦ Bristol stone ♦ brown stone ♦ building stone ♦ Caen stone ♦ cairngorm stone ♦ calcareous stone ♦ Canary stone ♦ capping stone ♦ carve in stone ♦ carved in stone ♦ cast stone ♦ cast the first stone at ♦ change into stone ♦ cherry stone ♦ china stone ♦ Cinnamon stone ♦ cleaner stone ♦ commemorative stone ♦ coping stone ♦ Corn stone ♦ corner stone ♦ crushed stone ♦ Cut stone ♦ cystine stone ♦ dental stone ♦ Dimension stone ♦ Diving stone ♦ door stone ♦ drip stone ♦ drop like a stone ♦ Druid stone ♦ dry stone wall ♦ Edge stone ♦ Edward Durell Stone ♦ egg stone ♦ emery stone ♦ End stone ♦ engraved stone ♦ Fairy stone ♦ Falling stone ♦ figure stone ♦ filling stone ♦ flag stone ♦ Flint stone ♦ Float stone ♦ flowering stone ♦ Foil stone ♦ foundation stone ♦ free stone ♦ give a stone for bread ♦ granulated stone ♦ grave stone ♦ grinding stone ♦ Grindle stone ♦ grit stone ♦ hard stone ♦ Harlan Fiske Stone ♦ have a stone removed from one's kidney ♦ heading stone ♦ heart of stone ♦ heavy stone ♦ hewn stone ♦ Hone stone ♦ huge stone ♦ I. F. Stone ♦ imposing stone ♦ Infernal stone ♦ isidor Feinstein Stone ♦ kerb stone ♦ kidney stone ♦ kill two birds with one stone. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stone": stone-age, stone-and-earth, stone-and-tree, stone-and-wattle, stone-arched, stone-a-second, stone-blind, stone-borer, Stone-break, stone-breaker, stone-breaking, stone-bridge, stone-broke, stone-built, stone-carts, stone-carved, stone-carver, stone-carvers, stone-carving, stone-chip, stone-choosing, stone-clad, stone-cladding, stone-cleaning, stone-cold, stone-cold sober, stone-cold-sober-seeming, stone-coloured, stone-crop, stone-crusher, stone-crushing, stone-cults, stone-cut, stone-cutter, stone-cutters, stone-cutting, stone-dead, stone-deaf, stone-dresser, stone-dust, stone-face, stone-faced, stone-fence, stone-filled, stone-flagged, stone-floored, stone-flux, stone-founded, stone-free, stone-fronted, stone-gathering, stone-giant, stone-graver, stone-gray, stone-ground, stone-hard, stone-headed, stone-heart, Stone-hearted, Stone-henge, Stone-horse, stone-laying, stone-lined, stone-look, stone-mason, stone-masons, stone-merchant, stone-milling, stone-mines, Stone-mortar, stone-mute, stone-numb, stone-on-stone, stone-packed, stone-paved, stone-picking, stone-pillared, stone-pitching, stone-pounding, stone-proof, stone-quarry, stone-quarrying, stone-removing, stone-robbing, stone-rows, stone-saw, stone-silent, stone-skittering, stone-slinging, stone-slips, stone-smelling, stone-sober, Stone-still, stone-stilted, stone-strewn, stone-throw, stone-thrower, stone-throwers, stone-throwing, stone-tiled, stone-tipped, stone-until, stone-vaulted, stone-veined, stone-wall, stone-walled, stone-waller, stone-wallers, stone-walling, stone-ware, stone-washed, Stone-webb, Stone-wigg, stone-work, stone-wrought, stone-yard. | |
Ending with "stone": coral-stone, corner-stone, foundation-stone, hearth-stone, paving-stone, pumice-stone, white-stone. | |
Containing "stone": dry-stone wall, dry-stone-wall. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
rolling stone | 10,283 | stone mountain park | 816 |
tawnee stone | 9,638 | stone circle | 736 |
sharon stone | 4,391 | stone cold steve austin | 717 |
kidney stone | 3,329 | rosetta stone | 710 |
stone henge | 3,272 | turning stone casino | 699 |
rolling stone magazine | 3,153 | gem stone jewelry | 613 |
stone | 2,794 | rolling stone lyrics | 609 |
12 stone | 2,689 | stone carving | 520 |
queens of the stone age | 2,535 | stone harbor new jersey | 516 |
gem stone | 2,083 | cultured stone | 499 |
stone mountain | 2,083 | stone angie | 399 |
gall stone | 1,956 | like lyrics stone | 394 |
stepping stone | 1,935 | stone wall | 378 |
stone mountain georgia | 1,737 | pizza stone | 373 |
stone temple pilot | 1,545 | paving stone | 358 |
stone sour | 1,460 | free tawnee stone | 351 |
birth stone | 1,229 | stone patio | 339 |
like stone | 1,120 | stone tori | 331 |
stone cold | 988 | yellow stone | 328 |
cold stone creamery | 902 | garden stone | 314 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "stone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gur (boulder, calculus, cobble, piece, rock). (various references) | |
Arabic | حجري (stony), شحذ (be sharp, edge, grind, hone, quicken, sharp, sharpen, sharpening, strop, whet, whetting), رجم (lapidate, surmise, throw, throwing), رجم بالحجارة (stoning), رمى بالحجارة, إستخرج الحصوة من الكلية, الحجر وحدة وزن بريطانية, صخر صغير, بلط (pave), حجر (congeal, fossilize, harden, petrify, quarantine, scree, sear, send, transfix), فص (lobe, segment), حجارة كريمة, حصوة (gallstone), حصى (grit, pebble, shingle), نصب تذكاري (memorial, monument, pillar, trophy), نزع النوى, نواة (kernel, nucleus, pyrene), مسلة, فرك (chafe, rub, rubbing, scour, scrape, scrub), صقل (buff, buffer, burn, burnish, cultivate, enamel, furbish, gloss, glossiness, grind, lacquer, perfect, planish, plume, polish, refine, rumble, scour, shine, sleek, smooth). (various references) | |
Basque | harri. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам каменна настилка на, чистя (clean, discard, dress, mop, pick, Slough, unload), камък (calculus, concretion, rock), каменна плоча, каменен (petrous), направен от камък, замервам с камъни, пул (chip, counter, piece), паве (cube, paver, paving stone, pitcher), изграждам с камъни. (various references) | |
Catalan | pedra. (various references) | |
Chinese | 石頭 , 石头, 石 (10 pecks, rock), 核 (atomic, nuclear). (various references) | |
Czech | kámen (calculus, jewel, rock). (various references) | |
Danish | sten (calculus, concrement, concretion, gallstone). (various references) | |
Dutch | van klei (clay, earthen), steen (brick, gem, jewel), klei- (clay, earthen), aarden (accustom oneself, clay, earth, earthen, earthly, get used, ground, terrestrial). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝtono, ŝtona (metalled), argila (clay, earthen). (various references) | |
Faeroese | steinur. (various references) | |
Farsi | هسته دراوردن از, هسته (Atom, Kernel, Nucleus), تحجیرکردن , سنگی , سنگسارکردن , سنگ میوه , سنگ قیمتی (Agate), سنگ (Boulder, Calculus, Rock). (various references) | |
Finnish | kivi (calculus, cobble, cobblestone, gallstone, rock). (various references) | |
French | pierre, galet. (various references) | |
Frisian | stiennen (metalled), stien, aardzje (clay, earthen). (various references) | |
German | Stein (block, brick, calculus, Flint, jewel, man, piece, pit, rock, shale), steinern (metalled, stony). (various references) | |
Greek | πέτ |
