What is the difference between sangar and stone?
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(military, UK) A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post.
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(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
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, title= A small piece of stone, a pebble.
A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
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A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ? 6.3503 kilograms
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(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.
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(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
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(obsolete) A testicle.
(dated, printing) 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; also called imposing stone.
To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
(slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
Constructed of stone.
Having the appearance of stone.
Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
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As a stone (used with following adjective).
(slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
Stone is a related term of sangar.
As nouns the difference between sangar and stone
is that sangar is a stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post while stone is a hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.As a verb stone is
to pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.As an adjective stone is
constructed of stone.As an adverb stone is
as a stone used with following adjective.As a proper noun Stone is
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Alternative forms
* sanger * sungarNoun
(en noun)- At the summits of these the enemy sharpshooters waited for them in sangars , or rock-built entrenchments, each of which had to be taken before the advance could safely continue.
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- A sangar' is a breastwork in the form of stonewalls built without bounding material. If stones are unavailable at or near the picket site sandbags are brought in to build the ' sangar .
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- As the sun finally set, the rebels rushed the sangars , but were cut to pieces by the deadly accurate SAS fire.
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- The game?s up, thought Piet as the Burghers returned fire and moved forward to attack the sangar .
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(wikipedia stone)Noun
(see usage notes)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- inestimable stones , unvalued jewels
- Should some relenting eye / Glance on the stone where our cold relics lie.
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- Lend me a looking-glass; / If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , / Why, then she lives.
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Usage notes
All countable senses use the plural stones'' except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural ''stone .Synonyms
* (substance) rock * (small piece of stone) pebble * (hard stone-like deposit) calculus * (curling piece) rockDerived terms
(Terms derived from the noun) * birthstone * brownstone * cast the first stone * cobblestone * cornerstone * foundation stone * gemstone * gravestone * hailstone * headstone * keystone * limestone * lodestone * markstone * milestone * moonstone * oilstone * sandstone * sink like a stone * Smithfield stone * soapstone * stepping stone * stone frigate * stone wall * touchstone * turn to stone * whetstoneVerb
(ston)- She got stoned to death after they found her.
Synonyms
* (pelt with stones) lapidateAdjective
(-)- stone walls
- stone pot
- She is one stone fox.
Adverb
(-)- My father is stone''' deaf. This soup is '''stone cold.
- I went stone crazy after she left.