What is the meaning of Stone?

noun

• A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter.
  • usage: "he threw a rock at me"
  • synonyms: rock
• Building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose.
  • usage: "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
• Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust.
  • usage: "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
  • synonyms: rock
• A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
  • usage: "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
  • synonyms: gem, gemstone
• An avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds.
  • usage: "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
• The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives. that contains the seed)
  • usage: "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
  • synonyms: pit, endocarp
• United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946.
  • synonyms: Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone
• United States filmmaker (born in 1946.
  • synonyms: Oliver Stone
• United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893.
  • synonyms: Lucy Stone
• United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989.
  • synonyms: I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone
• United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946.
  • synonyms: Harlan Fiske Stone
• United States architect (1902-1978.
  • synonyms: Edward Durell Stone
• A lack of feeling or expression or movement.
  • usage: "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"

verb

• Kill by throwing stones at.
  • usage: "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"
  • synonyms: lapidate
• Remove the pits from.
  • usage: "pit plums and cherries"
  • synonyms: pit

adjective

• Of any of various dull tannish or grey colors. .