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(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
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A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
* Shakespeare
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.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
* Shakespeare
(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).
To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
* Shakespeare
To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
To attack suddenly and violently.
To engage in sexual intercourse.
To cause to jump.
To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
(cycling) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
(obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
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(smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
(quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
(obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with .
* Shakespeare
The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
* John Locke
An effort; an attempt; a venture.
* Shakespeare
(mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
(architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
A jumping move in a board game.
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
(sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
An early start or an advantage.
(mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
(science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
(obsolete) exactly; precisely
* Marcellus, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1, l 64-65
A kind of loose jacket for men.
(in plural) A bodice worn instead of stays by women in the 18th century.
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As a proper noun stone
is .As a verb jump is
to propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.As a noun jump is
the act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound or jump can be a kind of loose jacket for men.As an adverb jump is
(obsolete) exactly; precisely.As an adjective jump is
(obsolete) exact; matched; fitting; precise.stone
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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.
Derived terms
* stone cold * stone dead * stone deafDerived terms
(terms derived from "stone") * Bath stone * birthstone * Black Stone * Blarney Stone * bluestone * bondstone * cast the first stone * china stone * cinnamon stone * cobblestone * cornerstone * curling stone * dolostone * dripstone * dry-stone * eolith * fieldstone * flagstone * footstone * foundation stone * freestone * gallstone * gravestone * grindstone * hard as stone * headstone * heathstone * keystone * kidney stone * kill two birds with one stone * leave no stone unturned * lodestone * milestone * oilstone * paving stone * Philosopher's Stone, Philosophers' Stone * pipestone * pizza stone * precious stone * pudding stone * rhinestone * rolling stone * Rosetta Stone * soapstone * standing stone * stepping stone * Stone Age * stone bass * stone boat * stone butch * stone cold * stone crab * stone curlew * stone dead * stone deaf * stone femme * stone fruit * stone hands * stone lily * stone marten * stone mint * stone parsley * stone pine * stone pit * stone shoot * stone the crows * stone-blind * stonebreaker * stone-broke * stonecast * stonechat * stone-cold * stonecrop * stonecutter * stoned * stone-dead * stone-deaf * stone-faced * stonefish * stonefly * stoneground * stone-ground * stonehearted * Stonehenge * stoneless * stonemason * stoner * stoneroller * stone's throw * stonewall * stonewall * stonewaller * stoneware * stonewashed * stonework * stonewort * stoneyard * throw stones * touchstone * whetstone * whinstoneSee also
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl) {{m, ine-pro, *g??emb-, , to spring, hop, jump}}. Cognate with (etyl) . Related to (l).Verb
(en verb)- The boy jumped over a fence.
- Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.
- Not the worst of the three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the square.
- She is going to jump from the diving board.
- to jump a stream
- The sudden sharp sound made me jump .
- The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.
- I hate it when people jump the queue.
- The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
- The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
- The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
- to jump a body with a dangerous physic
- It jumps with my humour.
Synonyms
* (propel oneself upwards) leap, spring * (cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall) jump down, jump off * (employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location) skydive * (react to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body violently) flinch, jerk, jump out of one's skin, leap out of one's skin, twitch * (To engage in sexual intercourse) hump, jump someone's bonesDerived terms
* jumped-up * jumper * jumpily * jumpy * jump about * jump around * jump at * jump down * jump down someone's throat * jump for joy * jump in * jump in one's skin * jump leads * jump off * jump on * jump out * jump out at * jump up * jump out of one's skin * jump rope * jump seat * jump ship * jump shot * jump-start * jump suit * jump the gun * jump the shark See also'' jumped''', '''jumper''' ''and'' ' jumpingNoun
(en noun)- To advance by jumps .
- Our fortune lies / Upon this jump .
- The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.
- There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.
- She was terrified before the jump , but was thrilled to be skydiving.
- the knight's jump in chess
- Press jump to start.
- Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.
- He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.
- Their research department gave them the jump on the competition.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "jump")Synonyms
* (instance of propelling oneself into the air) leap * (instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location) * (instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location) * (instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body) flinch, jerk, twitchDerived terms
* high jump * * * jump drive * jump jet * jump rope * long jump * triple jump * Walleye jumpAdverb
(-)- Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
- With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.