stone

stone

stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)

1. (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
2. (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
3. (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
4. (transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)

stone (countable and uncountable; plural stones)

1. (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
2. A small piece of stone.
3. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
4. (UK) (plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ? 6.3503 kilograms
   • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, page 202:

     Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 209:

     Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones.

5. (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

   a peach stone

6. (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

   kidney stone

7. (board games)A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
8. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

   stone colour:

9. (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

stone (not comparable)

1. Constructed of stone.

   stone walls

2. Having the appearance of stone.

   stone pot

3. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

stone (not comparable)

1. As a stone (used with following adjective).

   My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.

2. (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).

   I went stone crazy after she left.

	pietra
	substance
	small piece of stone
	A general term for rock that is used in construction, either crushed for use as aggregate or cut into shaped blocks as dimension stone.

	sasso
	small piece of stone
	Piccolo pezzo di minerale generalmente di forma irregolare di circa 20-200 mm di diametro.
	A small (and usually irregular) piece of mineral, approximately 20-200 mm in diameter.

	lapidare
	kill by pelting with stones
	To kill or excecute (a person) by throwing rocks or boulders at and on them.

	petroso
	constructed of stone
	having the appearance of stone

	pietroso
	constructed of stone
	having the appearance of stone

	roccioso
	constructed of stone
	having the appearance of stone

pierra

	calcolo
	medical: hard, stone-like deposit

	nocciolo
	Guscio legnoso contenuto nella polpa di una drupa e racchiudente il seme.
	The wooden shell found inside some fruits, particularly drupes, that surrounds the seed.

	roccia
	substance

	sassolino
	small piece of stone

	gemma
	gem stone

	nòcciolo
	Guscio legnoso contenuto nella polpa di una drupa e racchiudente il seme.
	The wooden shell found inside some fruits, particularly drupes, that surrounds the seed.

	pietra preziosa
	gem stone

ciottolo

denocciolare

lapide

masso

osso

snocciolare

Altri significati:

An Imperial unit of weight and mass, equal to 6.35029318 kilograms.

intoxicate, especially with narcotics

(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

curling stone

piece of hard material used in board games

As a stone (used with following adjective).

Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

unit of mass

(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.

(transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. ( '''Usually in passive''' )

form a stone during growth

pit (of a fruit)

(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

Having the appearance of stone.

A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

(slang) Absolutely, completely ( '''used with following adjective''' ).

(UK) ( '''plural:''' stone ) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ? 6.3503 kilograms

Constructed of stone.

colour

stone colour:

A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

A small piece of stone.

(board games)A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.

remove stone from

(building) stone

(transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.

Complete, absolute, of the highest degree.

(made of) stone

centre of some fruits

Made out of stone.

(intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.

absolutely, completely

(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

Traduzione 'veloce'

pietra ,sasso ,lapidare ,petroso ,pietroso