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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A stone that is cut or finished accurately to definite shape and size ; thick-bedded, evenly grained rock which can be easily cut in any direction and dressed for masonry; is generally sandstone, but some limestones are freestones. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A general, nongeneric term for any rock suitable for use in construction. Whether igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary, a building stone is chosen for its properties of durability, attractiveness, and economy.See also:dimension stone. (references) |
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Crosswords: BUILDING STONE |
| English words defined with "BUILDING STONE": dry walling ♦ Hammer-dressed ♦ Miliolite limestone, Moorstone ♦ nigged ♦ quarrying. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BUILDING STONE": anvil stone ♦ commercial granite ♦ lands valuable for minerals ♦ Oamaru stone, oolitic limestone ♦ polled stone. (references) |
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 | Cutting granite into building stone, near great Cape Ann quarries, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Building stone quarry at Dixon Springs pasture demonstration project. Robbs, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The value of U.S. exports to China has increased in the wood, marble and stone, building stone, and ceramic sectors, and have declined in the carpets/textile materials sector. (references) | |
Economic History | San Marino | Natural resources: Building stone. (references) |
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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 |
building stone | 176 |
building stone wall | 71 |
building stone house | 14 |
building stone home | 6 |
building stone walkways | 4 |
building stone walkway | 4 |
building stone texas | 3 |
barbecue building stone | 3 |
building stone uk | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BUILDING STONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilhugget sten (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steen voor de steenhouwerij (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone), hardsteen (belgian bluestone, cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone), gehouwen steen (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rakennuskivi (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone), hiekkakivi (sandstone), hakattu kivi (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pierre de taille. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beweglicher Bruchstein (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone), Werkstein (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone), freier Bruchstein (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λαξευτός λίθος (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pietra da taglio (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uildingbay onestay pedra de construção, pedra de cantaria (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone), pedra da fachada (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone). (various references) sillar (ashlar). (various references) kvadersten (cutstone, free stone, freestone, quarry stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-g-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: indigenous, longitudes, nebulising, subediting, subtending, toluidines, ungodliest. | |
-4 letters: bisontine, bludgeons, buildings, bundlings, buntlines, delisting, delousing, destining, digestion, dilutions, disoblige, distingue, dubonnets, ebonising, enlisting, ensouling, entoiling, indigents, indulgent, indulines, ingenious, ingestion, insouling, insulting, lenitions, linguines, listening, longitude, loudening, nonguilts, nonsuited, obelising, obtunding, outdesign, outlining, outsinned, singleton, stounding, tendinous, tinseling, tolidines, toluidine, toluidins, unbelting. | |
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