English Dictionary

stone

IPA（発音記号）

/stəʊn/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 イギリス英語 廃用 歴史的

(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks. / A small piece of stone, a pebble. / A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

日本語の意味

固い土や鉱物からなる自然の岩石。大きな岩になる物質。 / 小さな石や小石。 / 宝石、特にダイヤモンドなどの貴重な石。

After hours of polishing, the sculpture's surface revealed the natural grain of the stone.

何時間も磨いた後、彫刻の表面には石の自然な模様が現れた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.

Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha’s thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i’th’ charmed pot.

意味（2）

A small piece of stone, a pebble.

意味（3）

A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

[…]Ineſtimable Stones, vnvalewed Iewels[…]

意味（4）

(Britain) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight.

Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. […] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

意味（5）

(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

a peach stone

意味（6）

(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

意味（7）

(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.

意味（8）

A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

stone:

意味（9）

(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

意味（10）

A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.

Amid that scene, if ſome relenting eye Glance on the ſtone where our cold reliques lie.

意味（11）

(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.

She's dead as earth: Lend me a Looking-glaſſe; / If that her breath will miſt or ſtaine the ſtone, / Why then ſhe liues.

意味（12）

(obsolete) A testicle.

[…]and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels ſtone?

意味（13）

(printing, historical) 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.

The Chief called the makeup editor to the stone, pointed to the story which had caught his eye, and suggested a fairly simple remake.

stones （ plural ）

stone （ as unit of mass plural ）