How to pronounce “stone”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
• (countable, geology) A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.
• A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
• (British) A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight. Abbreviated as st.
• (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
• (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
• (board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.
• A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
• (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
• A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.
• (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
• (obsolete) A testicle.
• (printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
• [Adjective]
• Constructed of stone.
• Having the appearance of stone.
• Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
• (African-American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.
• (LGBTQ, slang) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
• [Adverb]
• As a stone (used with following adjective).
• (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives).
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.
• (transitive) To wall or wall up with stones.
• (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
• (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
• (transitive, slang) Especially of cannabis or narcotics: To intoxicate. (Usually in passive)
• (intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.
• (transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

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