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📖 Определения и значения для слова stone

📒 a hard solid mineral substance that is found in the ground, often used for building

  • Most of the houses are built of stone.
  • stone walls
  • a stone floor/bridge/carving/pillar/slab

📒 a small piece of rock of any shape

  • a pile of stones
  • Some children were throwing stones into the lake.
  • Some loose stones tumbled down the slope behind her.

📒 a piece of stone shaped for a particular purpose

  • These words are carved on the stone beside his grave.

📒 a rare valuable stone, such as a diamond, that is used in jewellery

  • She had the stone set in a ring.

📒 a hard shell containing the nut or seed in the middle of some types of fruit

  • cherry/peach stones

📒 a small piece of hard material that can form in the bladder or kidney and cause pain

  • kidney stones

📒 (in the UK) a unit for measuring weight, equal to 6.35 kilograms or 14 pounds

  • He weighs over 15 stone.
  • She's trying to lose a stone.

📒 unable to be changed

  • People should remember that our proposals aren't set in stone.
  • These rules are not set in stone.

📒 to be a person who does not show other people sympathy

📒 to achieve two things at the same time with one action

📒 to try every possible course of action in order to find or achieve something

📒 almost impossible to obtain

  • Getting an apology from him was like getting blood from a stone.

📒 you should not criticize other people, because they will easily find ways of criticizing you

📒 a person who moves from place to place, job to job, etc. does not have a lot of money, possessions or friends but is free from responsibilities

📒 a very short distance away

  • We live just a stone's throw from here.
  • The hotel is within a stone's throw of the beach.
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