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stone | stove |

As a proper noun stone

is .

As a noun stove is

a heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

As a verb stove is

to heat or dry, as in a stove or stove can be (stave).

stone

English

(wikipedia stone)

Noun

(see usage notes)
  • (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • A small piece of stone, a pebble.
  • A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
  • * Shakespeare
    • inestimable stones , unvalued jewels
  • A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ? 6.3503 kilograms
  • * Stone Mac Donald is ready, are you
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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
    • Should some relenting eye / Glance on the stone where our cold relics lie.
    (Gray)
  • (obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Lend me a looking-glass; / If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , / Why, then she lives.
  • (obsolete) A testicle.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (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.

    • 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) rock

    Derived 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 * whetstone

    Verb

    (ston)
  • To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
    • She got stoned to death after they found her.
  • 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)

    • Synonyms

    * (pelt with stones) lapidate

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Constructed of stone.
    • stone walls
  • Having the appearance of stone.
    • stone pot
  • Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
  • (AAVE) (Used as an intensifier).
    • She is one stone fox.
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    • Adverb

    (-)
  • As a stone (used with following adjective).
    • My father is stone''' deaf. This soup is '''stone cold.
  • (slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
    • I went stone crazy after she left.

    Derived terms

    * stone cold * stone dead * stone deaf

    Derived 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 * whinstone

    Related terms

    (terms related to "stone") * acrolith * lapidary * lapidate * litharge * lithiasis * lithic * lithify * lithography * lithoid * lithotomy * lithotripsy * lithotripter * menhir * monolithic * sangar * sardonyx * sarsen * saxatile * saxicolous * saxifrage * trilithon

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    stove

    English

    (Wikipedia)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) and/or (etyl) stove (compare Dutch stoof), possibly from (etyl) , Norwegian stove and Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
  • * , chapter=8
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove .}}
  • A device for heating food, (UK ) a cooker.
  • (chiefly, UK) A hothouse (in which plants are kept).
  • * 1850 , M. A. Burnett, Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine , part 8:
    • There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.
  • * 1854 , in The Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine , volume 4, page 208:
    • Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent
  • (dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
  • * Earl of Strafford
    • When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlour or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.
  • * Burton
    • How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
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    Verb

    (stov)
  • To heat or dry, as in a stove.
    • to stove feathers
  • To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
    • to stove orange trees
    (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stave)

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