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bone | gone |

As a proper noun bone

is (historical) a city in eastern algeria, now known as annaba.

As a verb gone is

.

As an adjective gone is

away, having left.

As a preposition gone is

(british|informal) past, after, later than (a time).

bone

English

(wikipedia bone)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  • * {{quote-book, year= a1420
    • , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
  • (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  • A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  • One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  • Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  • (figurative) The framework of anything.
  • An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  • (US, informal) A dollar.
  • (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
  • (slang) Dominoes or dice.
  • (slang) .
    • Synonyms
    * (rigid parts of a corset) rib, stay

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

    • Verb

    (bon)
  • To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  • * 1949 , (Kenneth Lewis Roberts), I Wanted to Write , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=upsEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KyP_TrXtI6PsmAWp8MzvCw&redir_esc=y page 44],
    • One of the fish stalls specialized in boning' shad, and he who has never eaten a ' boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.
  • * 1977 , Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rqQRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wRb_Tuv2O-XMmAXioqiIAg&redir_esc=y page 73],
    • The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned', stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, ' boned and rolled, but not stuffed.
  • * 2009 , Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QmevzbQ0AsIC&pg=PA379&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0w7_Toz1FYyUmQX25YSjAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 379],
    • Then it is boned ; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.
  • * 2011 , Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hDe3j9hIgw0C&pg=PT38&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1_X-Tv-rDO_zmAXHqsG1Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 38],
    • Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.
  • To fertilize with bone.
  • * 1859 July 9, (The Economist) , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3tcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HBr_Tq7KMaXymAXC4dCYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 758],
    • He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”
  • To put whalebone into.
    • to bone stays
    (Ash)
  • (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
    • boning rod
  • (vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
    • So, did you bone her?
  • (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
  • * 1962 , Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe , Collier Books, page 48.
    • "You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".
  • To study.
    • bone up
  • * 1896 , Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums
    • "I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."
  • To polish boots to a shiny finish.
  • * F. van Zyl, [http://web.archive.org/20040622112824/uk.geocities.com/sadf_history1/ferdivz.html SADF National Service (1979-1980) ]
    • "...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits"
    Synonyms
    * (remove the bone from) debone * bury the bone, bonk (British), do, fuck, screw, shag (British)

    Derived terms

    * auditory bone * bare bones * bone ash * bone-cruncher * bone-crunching * bone marrow * bone meal * bone of contention * bone spavin * bone structure * bone turquoise * bone up * boned * bone-dry * bonefish * bonehead * boneless * boner * boney * bonesetter * boneshaker * boneyard * bonfire * boning rod * bony * breastbone * breed in the bone * cannon bone * capitate bone * close to the bone * coffin bone * collarbone * condyle * crazy bone * cuboid bone * cuneiform bone * dembones * debone * dog bone * ethmoid bone * feel in one's bones * fishbone * frontal bone * funny bone * greenstick fracture * hamate bone * hamulus * have a bone in one's leg * have a bone in one's throat * have a bone to pick * heel bone * hipbone * hyoid bone * innominate bone * intermediate cuneiform bone * jawbone * keep one's bone green * lacrimal bone * lamella * lateral cuneiform bone * long bone * lucky-bone * lunate bone * make no bones about * mastoid bone * medial cuneiform bone * membrane bone * nasal bone * navicular bone * near the bone * not make old bones * occipital bone * otic bone * palatine bone * parietal bone * pisiform bone * pull bone * pulley bone * rag-and-bone man * ringbone * scaphoid bone * shinbone * skin and bones * sphenoid bone * splint bone * stirrup bone * T-bone steak * temporal bone * throw a bone to * to the bone * trapezoid bone * triquetral bone * vomer bone * wishbone * work one's fingers to the bone * zygomatic bone

    See also

    * * coccygeal vertebra * cervical vertebra * calcaneus * carpal * acetabulum * clavicle * coccyx * costa * cranium * distal phalange * exostosis * femur * fibula * humerus * ilium * incus * inferior nasal concha * intermediate phalange * ischium * kneecap * lumbar vertebra * malleus * mandible * maxilla * metacarpal * metatarsal * myositis ossificans * orthopedic * os coxae * ossature * ossein * osseous * ossicle * ossification * ossify * ossuary * osteal * osteitis * osteoblast * osteoclasis * osteoclast * osteocyte * osteogenesis * osteolysis * osteoma * osteomalacia * osteomyelitis * osteophyte * osteoplastic * osteoplasty * osteoporosis * osteosarcoma * osteosis * osteotome * osteotomy * patella * pelvic girdle * pelvis * phalanx * proximal phalange * pubis * radius * rib * sacral vertebra * sacrum * scapula * shoulder blade * skeleton * skull * stapes * sternum * talus * tarsal * thoracic vertebra * tibia * trapezium * ulna * vertebra *

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    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

    Verb

    (bon)
  • (slang) To apprehend, steal.
  • * 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)'', in ''Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art , Volume XXXVII, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fOQXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2B3_TtvrC4f_mAXim5XJAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 127],
    • “Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned', and who you had ' boned it from.”
  • * 1915 , William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay ,
    • as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , 2006, Canongate, p.802,
    • Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.

    Verb

    (bon)
  • (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
    • (Knight)
  • * W. M. Buchanan
    • Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges.

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    gone

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ywent (obsolete verb form)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * goner

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Away, having left.
    • Are they gone already?
  • (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
    • Don't both trying to understand what Grandma says, she's gone .
    He won't be going out with us tonight. Now that he's engaged, he's gone .
    Have you seen their revenue numbers? They're gone .
  • No longer existing, having passed.
    • The days of my youth are gone .
  • Used up.
    • I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
  • Dead.
  • (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings
    • Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone .
  • (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
  • (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 491:
    • Six nights gone , your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
    • You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

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    Anagrams

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