What's the difference between flagstone and stone?

Flagstone


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (2) Solemn flagstones frowned up at kaftans, wooden beads and waist-length hair.
  • (3) He fell lifeless outside an abandoned building in a little alleyway, number 1313 Republic Street, where the tributes are modest - bottles of wine or beer on his flagstone deathbed, and a placard: 'No seatbelt equals death.'
  • (4) • 225 Upper Salthill, galwaybaybrewery.com , Buried at Sea €4.90 Larkins, Portroe, Tipperary Flagstone floors, open fires, sleeping dogs, trad acoustic music sessions … Larkins harks back to an older Ireland, more redolent of Brendan Behan than Bono.
  • (5) Nowhere is this lovelier than the Paseo del Río (River Walk), cobble and flagstone paths that extend for 21 blocks (almost three miles) along the San Antonio river.
  • (6) Today, Goma has a number of pavements, built from interlocking flagstones.
  • (7) In the guinea pig, the flat surfaced hexagonal cells with few microvilli were arranged like flagstones over the whole area of the planum semilunatum, while in the chick the cells with many prominent microvilli were found on both sides of the crista.
  • (8) Others rip upwards, allowing the fat red, purple and grey of the innards to spill onto the flagstones.
  • (9) Out on the patio flagstones, sometimes, tiny fragments: a little, insect-like songbird leg, with a foot clenched tight where the sinews have pulled it; or – even more gruesomely – a disarticulated beak, a house-sparrow beak top, or bottom, a little conical bead of blushed gunmetal, slightly translucent, with a few faint maxillary feathers adhering to it.
  • (10) Flaubert wished to close the gap not just between words and emotional truths, but between words and things: the sound of Hippolyte's wooden leg in the church ("They heard on the flagstones something like the sharp click of an iron-shod pole tapping them with even strokes"); the lumbering sway of cattle; the scoop of a hand in sugar-white arsenic.

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.

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