Look up: stone

1. STONE
   A Structured and Open Environment: a project supported by the German Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT) to design, implement and distribute a SEE for research and teaching.
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2. Stone
   The inner fruit wall of a drupe. The stone encloses the seed (i.e. plums and cherries).
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3. Stone
   Quarried or artificially broken rock for use in construction.
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4. Stone
   Ancient Measurement Terms: 14 pounds.
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5. stone
   [adj] - of or relating to or made of stone 2. [adj] - of any of various dull tannish-gray colors 3. [n] - (British) an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body 4. [n] - the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or c...
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6. Stone
   Measure of weight equal to 14 lbs. 8 stone equalled one hundredweight.
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7. Stone
   The seed of an apricot, cherry, peach, plum or other member of the genus Prunus
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8. Stone
   The stone is an old British unit of mass. Traditionally used to express the weight ofa person.Conversions16 ounces (oz)=1 pound (lb)1 stone=14 pounds (lb)1 stone=6.350293 kg1 ton=1016.047 kgttle='Mass';xiunt='kg';yiunt='stone';mconv=6.350293;cconv=0.0; See also: Mass, Pound.
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9. stone
   a rock-like concretion in timber composed mainly of CaCO3,found occasionally in a few tropical species,particularly Iroko(Chlorophora excelsa) Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • colour:light kaki grey Category: The chemical industry • a ...
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10. Stone
    Stone noun [ Middle English ston , stan , Anglo-Saxon stān ; akin to Old Saxon & OFries. stēn , Dutch steen , German stein , Icelandic steinn , Swedish sten , Danish steen ...
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11. Stone
    Stone transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Stoned ; present participle & verbal noun Stoning .] [ From Stone , noun : confer Anglo-Saxon st...na...
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12. stone
    1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. 'And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' (Acts vii. 59) ... 2. To make like stone; to harden. 'O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.' (Shak) ... 3. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to st...
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13. stone
    adjective of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
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14. stone
    noun building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; `he wanted a special stone to mark the site`
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15. stone
    noun a lack of feeling or expression or movement; `he must have a heart of stone`; `her face was as hard as stone`
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16. stone
    pit noun the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; `you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking`
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17. Stone
    Edward Durell Stone noun United States architect (1902-1978)
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18. stone
    noun an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; `a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone`
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19. Stone
    noun United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
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20. Stone
    Isidor Feinstein Stone noun United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
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21. Stone
    noun United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
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22. Stone
    noun United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
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23. Stone
    Harlan F. Stone noun United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)
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24. stone
    noun a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; `he threw a rock at me`
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25. stone
    (stōn) calculus. a unit of weight in Great Britain, the equivalent of 14 pounds (avoirdupois), or about 6.34 kg.
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