stone
Definition
- n. building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
- n. an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
- n. the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- n. United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
Word forms
- Past participle
- stoned
- Past tense
- stoned
- Present participle
- stoning
- Third person singular
- stones
Example sentences
n.
She picked up a smooth stone from the riverbank.
vt.
The children began to stone the old tree with small pebbles.
a.
They built a stone wall around the garden.