stone (st?n)n.1. a. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock.b. Such concreted matter of a particular type. Often used in combination: sandstone; soapstone.2. A small piece of rock.3. Rock or a piece of rock shaped or finished for a particular purpose, especially:a. A piece of rock that is used in construction: a coping stone; a paving stone.b. A gravestone or tombstone.c. A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone.d. A milestone or boundary.4. A gem or precious stone.5. Something, such as a hailstone, resembling a stone in shape or hardness.6. Botany The hard covering enclosing the seed in certain fruits, such as the cherry, plum, or peach.7. Medicine A mineral concretion in an organ, such as the kidney or gallbladder, or other body part; a calculus.8. pl. stone Abbr. st. A unit of weight in Great Britain, 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms).9. Printing A table with a smooth surface on which page forms are composed.adj.1. Relating to or made of stone: a stone wall.2. Made of stoneware or earthenware.3. Complete; utter. Often used in combination: a stone liar; stone-deaf.adv. Completely; utterly: stone cold; standing stone still.tr.v. stoned, ston·ing, stones 1. To hurl or throw stones at, especially to kill with stones.2. To remove the stones or pits from.3. To furnish, fit, pave, or line with stones.4. To rub on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen.5. Sports To block a shot taken by (an opponent). Used of a goalie.6. Obsolete To make hard or indifferent.[Middle English, from Old English st?n; see st?i- in Indo-European roots.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.stone (st??n) npl stone1. (Geological Science) the hard compact nonmetallic material of which rocks are made. 2. (Geological Science) a small lump of rock; pebble3. (Jewellery) jewellery short for gemstone4. a. a piece of rock designed or shaped for some particular purposeb. (in combination): gravestone; millstone. 5. a. something that resembles a stoneb. (in combination): hailstone. 6. (Botany) the woody central part of such fruits as the peach and plum, that contains the seed; endocarp7. (Botany) any similar hard part of a fruit, such as the stony seed of a date8. (Units) Brit a unit of weight, used esp to express human body weight, equal to 14 pounds or 6.350 kilograms9. (Curling) Also called: granite the rounded heavy mass of granite or iron used in the game of curling10. (Pathology) pathol a nontechnical name for calculus11. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing a table with a very flat iron or stone surface upon which hot-metal pages are composed into formes; imposition table12. (Games, other than specified) rare (in certain games) a piece or man13. (Colours) a. any of various dull grey coloursb. (as adjective): stone paint. 14. (modifier) relating to or made of stone: a stone house. 15. (Ceramics) (modifier) made of stoneware: a stone jar. 16. cast a stone at cast aspersions upon17. heart of stone an obdurate or unemotional nature18. leave no stone unturned to do everything possible to achieve an endadv (in combination) completely: stone-cold; stone-dead. vb (tr) 19. to throw stones at, esp to kill20. to remove the stones from21. to furnish or provide with stones22. stone the crows slang Brit and Austral an expression of surprise, dismay, etc[Old English st?n; related to Old Saxon st?n, German Stein, Old Norse steinn, Gothic stains, Greek stion pebble] ?stonable, ?stoneable adj ?stoneless adj ?stonelessness n ?stone?like adjStone (st??n) n1. (Biography) Oliver. born 1946, US film director and screenwriter: his films include Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991), Nixon (1995), Alexander (2004), and World Trade Center (2006)2. (Biography) Sharon. born 1958, US film actress: her films include Basic Instinct (1991), Casino (1995), and Cold Creek Manor (2003)Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014stone (sto?n) n., pl. stones for 1-5,7-19, stone for 6, n. 1. the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist. 2. a rock or particular piece or kind of rock. 3. a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose: paving stones. 4. a small piece of rock, as a pebble. 5. a mineral used in jewelry; gemstone. 6. one of various units of weight, esp. the British unit equivalent to 14 pounds (6.4 kg). 7. something resembling a small piece of rock in size, shape, or hardness. 8. any small, hard seed, as of a date; pit. 9. the hard endocarp of a drupe, as of a peach. 10. a calculous concretion in the body, as in the kidney, gallbladder, or urinary bladder. 11. a gravestone or tombstone. 12. grindstone (def. 1). 13. millstone (def. 1). 14. hailstone. 15. any of various artificial building materials imitating cut stone or rubble. 16. a. Print. a table with a smooth surface, formerly made of stone, on which page forms are composed. b. any surface on which a picture or design is drawn or etched in the process of making a lithograph. adj. 17. made of or pertaining to stone or stoneware. 18. stonelike; stony; obdurate: a stone killer; stone strength. adv. 19. completely; totally: stone cold. v.t. 20. to throw stones at. 21. to put to death by pelting with stones. 22. to provide, pave, line, face, or fortify with stones. 23. to rub with or on a stone, as to sharpen, polish, or smooth. 24. to remove stones from (fruit). Idioms: leave no stone unturned, to explore every possibility; spare no effort. [before 900; (n.) Middle English stan, sto(o)n, Old English st?n, c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon st?n, Old High German stein, Old Norse steinn, Gothic stains] ston?er, n. Stone (sto?n) n. 1. Edward Durell, 1902?78, U.S. architect. 2. Harlan Fiske, 1872?1946, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1941?46. 3. I(sidor) F(einstein), 1907?89, U.S. political journalist. 4. Lucy, 1818?93, U.S. suffragist. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.stone (st?n)1. Geology A general term for rock, especially as used in construction.2. Botany The pit of certain fruits, such as the plum or cherry.3. Medicine A hard mass of minerals or other substance, such as cholesterol, that forms in a body part or organ: kidney stones.The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition. Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.stone – From a Germanic base meaning “solidity” or “stiffness.”See also related terms for stiff.Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.Stone of drunks?Lipton, 1970.Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.stone1. ‘stone’ and ‘rock’Stone is the hard, solid substance which is found in the ground and is often used for building.In British English, a stone is a small piece of stone which you can pick up in your hand.In American English, a small piece of stone like this may also be called a rock.In both British and American English, a rock is also a large piece of stone that sticks up out of the ground or the sea, or that has broken away from a mountain.In British English, the large, hard seed in a fruit such as a cherry, date, or apricot is called the stone.In American English, this seed is called the pit.