stonelike
石头般的,石头人,石质的,石质
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Definitions
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plural stones for 1-5, 7-20, stone for 6.
- : the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- : a rock or particular piece or kind of rock, as a boulder or piece of agate.
- : a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose: paving stone;building stone.
- : a small piece of rock, as a pebble.
- : precious stone.
- : Chiefly British. one of various units of weight, especially the British unit equivalent to 14 pounds.
- : something resembling a small piece of rock in size, shape, or hardness.
- : any small, hard seed, as of a date; pit.
- : Botany. the hard endocarp of a drupe, as of a peach.
- : Pathology. a calculous concretion in the body, as in the kidney, gallbladder, or urinary bladder.
- : a gravestone or tombstone.
- : grindstone: Don’t even think about using that stone until you’ve got your safety glasses on.
Phrases
- stone cold
- stone deaf
- cast in stone
- cast the first stone
- flat (stone) broke
- heart of stone
- leave no stone unturned
- rolling stone gathers no moss
- run into a stone wall
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
One of these stones is decorated with a boar lying on its back.
Stonehenge today includes 63 complete stones, including 17 standing sarsen stones in the outer circle.
We used to sit around his stone fireplace, chatting about everything under the sun, wine flowing and Leonard Cohen playing somewhere in the background.
Instead, the focus is on medical conditions that astronauts have a fairly high chance of developing, like rashes or kidney stones.
The stones help squish food so a creature doesn’t have to grind up everything in its mouth.
My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
“The US cannot tolerate the idea of any rival economic entity,” Stone writes.
Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.
That Stone would slander the democratic, pro-Western, EuroMaidan revolution as a CIA coup is no surprise.
Mullins quotes Stewart from an interview with Rolling Stone.
That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.
Monsieur,” growls the baron, “stone walls have ears, you say if only they had tongues; what tales these could tell!
A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.
The clink of the stone-masons' chisels had resounded year after year from morning till night.
A few small rocks of some soft stone may be added, and in between these the Ferns are planted.