stone - Meaning in Marathi

stone - Meaning in Marathi

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Definitions and Meaning of stone in English

stone adjective

1. of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

Stone noun

1. United States architect (1902-1978)
2. United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946)
3. United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)
4. United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)
5. United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
6. United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946)

stone noun

1. building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose

   Example

   • "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
2. a lack of feeling or expression or movement

   Examples

   • "he must have a heart of stone"
   • "her face was as hard as stone"
3. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

   Example

   • "he threw a rock at me"
4. the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed

   Example

   • "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
5. an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds

   Example

   • "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
6. material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

   Examples

   • "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
   • "that mountain is solid rock"
7. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

   Examples

   • "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"
   • "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"

stone verb

1. remove the pits from

   Example

   • "pit plums and cherries"
2. kill by throwing stones at

   Example

   • "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"

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