(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.
Stonehenge
Definition:
(n.) An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) The first site we explored was a big burial cairn in the shadow of Carn Menyn, where the Stonehenge bluestones come from."
(3) Three thousand cheers for Will Self ( Has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?
(4) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
(5) We aren't surprised that the Romans had nothing to say about, say, the nearby Avebury stone circle, because it's far less manifest than Stonehenge – and by extension, the oblivion of time that blankets scores of British Neolithic and bronze age sites is in keeping with our current ignorance: to this day, so few people visit them that their enigmatic character is itself underimagined.
(6) He might have come straight from 1840s New England, via Woodstock and Stonehenge.
(7) 'Archaeology on steroids': huge ritual arena discovered near Stonehenge Read more Archaeologists have found evidence that a big tree fell over and its base provided a wall which was then lined with flint.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Old Stonehenge admission tickets for child and adult.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A selection of record sleeves on display at Stonehenge visitor centre as part of the exhibition.
(10) The celebrated geologist Herbert Henry Thomas linked the Stonehenge bluestones with Preseli in 1923 and pinpointed the tor on Carn Meini as the likely source.
(11) We would also be against any obstruction of solar or lunar sight lines from Stonehenge to surrounding monuments.
(12) Helena Beard, a consultant from China Travel Outbound, who advises organisations such as the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on how to attract Chinese tourists, says: “There is a fast-growing affluent middle class and millenials, many of whom speak English and have a more adventurous spirit than their parents.” She says luxury goods shopping will still be high on their list but they will also be looking for good quality restaurants, particularly seafood, and cultural attractions from Stonehenge to anything linked to the monarchy or flagged by celebrities on social media.
(13) It has long been known that the bluestones that form Stonehenge’s inner horseshoe came from the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire, around 140 miles from Salisbury Plain.
(14) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(15) Just a year after a spectacular £27m redevelopment for visitor facilities at Stonehenge , English Heritage has submitted plans to expand and improve the site’s car parks to cope with the crowds that have flocked to the landmark.
(16) And when I remarked to Thurley that it seemed a shame that Stonehenge was overrun with people while even sites as nearby – and impressive – as Avebury were scarcely visited, he shrugged and said: "People just won't go there," as if this were something entirely beyond his control.
(17) "In the past we had this idea that Stonehenge was standing in splendid isolation, but it wasn't … it's absolutely huge."
(18) Chief Druid King Arthur Pendragon gets court date over Stonehenge parking fees Read more The transport secretary said the tunnel could enhance the Stonehenge site by removing traffic.
(19) When I mentioned that I'd done my Neolithic wondering in Orkney to Pitts at Stonehenge he said: "Well, that's quite a different sort of experience."
(20) The new Stonehenge visitor centre will lose £45m in public funding, though the government said it could still go ahead if private funding could be found.