What's the difference between cornerstone and stone?

Cornerstone


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Antimicrobiologic chemotherapy is a cornerstone in the modern concept of treatment of sepsis.
  • (2) Many of the plays we produced needed time for research and development in workshop mode – this investment, the provision of time for the development and rehearsal of plays for which I have campaigned throughout my career, was a cornerstone of our work, and could not be stripped away without imperilling the creation of plays themselves.
  • (3) The chancellor's position was not helped by the centre right Centre for Policy Studies which argued in a pamphlet on Monday that he would struggle to meet his deficit reduction plan, the cornerstone of the government's economic strategy.
  • (4) The Lib Dem leader, Tim Farron, who has said the passage of the bill in the autumn will be “hell” for the government, said: “The charter of fundamental rights is a cornerstone of what makes Britain what we are.
  • (5) A "cornerstone" of the legal system, the universal right to a solicitor upon arrest, could be jettisoned in favour of means-testing under controversial plans drawn up by the Ministry of Justice.
  • (6) But there, stuck behind a glass case in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and having already failed to take off from the shelves of department stores in the United States, Richard Joseph saw what was to become the cornerstone of a new family venture – a chopping board.
  • (7) Adequate tissue oxygenation is the cornerstone of therapy.
  • (8) Conventional diets and increased exercise are the cornerstones of traditional therapy for obesity, but available data suggest that the most important component of any program is the associated behavior modification through which new ways of dealing with old problems can be learned and continually applied.
  • (9) Liberal irrigation and elevation of the injured part are also cornerstones of therapy.
  • (10) If there’s one thing Apple told investors clearly, it’s that the iPhone is still the cornerstone to the success of the Apple Empire.
  • (11) She sees the character as "tough, intelligent, delightfully daffy and yet a moral cornerstone for a lot of deviant behaviour".
  • (12) The fear is palpable in this place.” A cornerstone of the reforms is a restructuring around more than a dozen thematic “global practices” like health or trade, instead of regional teams.
  • (13) Continuous improvement is a cornerstone to this new look at quality.
  • (14) Minister Stan Smith said members of the Cornerstone Community Church congregation were offering to mourn with people who were heartbroken by the news of Henning's death.
  • (15) Computed tomography is recommended as the cornerstone in the initial radiographic evaluation of growing or painful lipomatous soft tissue masses of the extremities.
  • (16) Conservative treatment is the cornerstone of management and is effective in more than two-thirds of patients, making surgical treatment necessary in only a minority of instances.
  • (17) From analyses of the effectiveness of beta-blocker monotherapy in relation to the patient's age and to pre-treatment renin determinations an antihypertensive drug program is proposed in which beta-blockers form the cornerstone.
  • (18) Dutton is furious that Triggs linked their deaths to the Coalition’s boat turnback measure, a cornerstone of its hardline Operation Sovereign Borders policy.
  • (19) The prevention of the occurrence and recurrence of PCP is a cornerstone in the treatment of patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
  • (20) Cornerstones of these development are the foundation of the Society for Medical Radiology in 1954, the continuous increase of the numbers of examinations until 1974, the significantly increased availability of modern imaging methods since 1985 and the introduction of special training courses for physicians in the fields of diagnostic radiology, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine in 1988.

Stone


Definition:

  • (n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
  • (n.) A precious stone; a gem.
  • (n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
  • (n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
  • (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
  • (n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
  • (n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
  • (n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
  • (n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
  • (n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
  • (n.) 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; -- called also imposing stone.
  • (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
  • (n.) To make like stone; to harden.
  • (n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
  • (n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
  • (n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
  • (2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
  • (3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
  • (4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
  • (5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
  • (6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
  • (7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
  • (8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
  • (9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
  • (10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
  • (11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
  • (14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
  • (15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
  • (16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
  • (17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
  • (18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
  • (19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
  • (20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.