(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.
Stove
Definition:
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(n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.
(n.) An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
(v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
(v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also, isotypes to HCHO-HSA resulted from the exposure and no other sources, such as smoking, mobile home residency, and use of wood stoves.
(2) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
(3) We have attempted to develop the studies initiated by Poindexter,Stove and Stanier, and Schmidt and Stanier (16, 17, 20) with the Caulobacter genus so that these bacteria can serve as a model system for prokaryotic differentiation.
(4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
(5) Airborne particles from living rooms which were heated by stoves, or by fire places, and from outdoors were collected simultaneously.
(6) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
(7) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
(8) A new field sampler has been developed for measuring the particulate matter (PM) and carbon monoxide emissions of woodburning stoves.
(9) An increasing number of families in the United States are converting to woodburning stoves in an effort to reduce winter heating bills.
(10) These individuals have frequently reduced mobility and may risk falling while filling their stoves.
(11) Kelly said it was mostly up to governments to curb pollution levels, through legislation, measures such as moving power stations away from big cities and providing cheap alternatives to indoor wood and coal stoves.
(12) "I have a gas stove, so with a little bit of a flame the gas worked, and we are, we had dinner, we had our coffee, so we were ok." Adam Gabbatt Horizon Diner in Manahawkin, west of Long Beach Island, serving customers displaced by Sandy.
(13) Stoves were the main specified ignition agent for nightclothes (36%).
(14) Backing an initiative by Merseyside-based kitchen appliance firm Stoves for a new Made in Britain mark, Miliband said they were "three words we don't hear enough, or see enough".
(15) A conventional stove, manufactured in the Boise area, was tested at altitudes of 90 and 825 m. A catalytic stove was tested only at the high altitude facility.
(16) Kerosene pressure stove accidents occurred commonly in the age group 16-35 years and were rare in other age groups.
(17) The tiles, I am told, are also Italian, the chandeliers Czech, the fridge American, the stove German.
(18) He conceded that the flat was heated with coal stoves and said it was directly above a flat that a neighbouring tenant rented just for his dogs.
(19) ‘I hope the stove works’ Recent letters appear to show how militants are currently idealising elements of jihadi culture.
(20) They are minute, it's true – no amount of creative photography can conceal the proximity of the beds to the stoves or indeed the toilets.