(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.
Whetstone
Definition:
(n.) A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools.
Example Sentences:
(1) The selection of diamond-coates whetstones manufactured by Chirana for turbine drills is extended at present by two new types of toods with a different size of diamond particles.
(2) Google has done more than almost any other company to help tackle online piracy,” Rachel Whetstone, the former adviser to Conservative leader Michael Howard who is now Google’s senior vice president global communications, responded.
(3) Whetstone wrote: “ Given the tone of some of your publications, that made quite a few people chuckle ” and followed the comment with a gif of a baby laughing.
(4) Collins was promoted in mid June to take over Whetstone's role.
(5) He is married to Rachel Whetstone, who used to advise Michael Howard and is now a very big cheese at board level in Google.
(6) Whetstone is married to Steve Hilton, who was Cameron’s director of strategy from 2005 until 2012.
(7) Whetstone admitted that Google makes more than 500 changes a year to its algorithms, but only to improve user experience.
(8) His close friend Rachel Whetstone, another former special adviser who works as Howard's political secretary, is the most influential member of the Tory leader's immediate team.
(9) Rachel Whetstone, the Briton who has been head of communications and public policy at Google for several years, has been poached by Uber for a similar role.
(10) Whetstone said that last year Google removed 222m web pages that broke copyright rules, with an average take down time of six hours.
(11) One leading member of the set argues that two key appointments to Howard's office, made on Whetstone's recommendation after he won the leadership, show that she does not push a clique.
(12) Before starting her career with Google in Europe in 2005, Whetstone was Michael Howard’s chief of staff after he became Conservative leader in 2003.
(13) Whetstone’s appointment was first reported by Recode .
(14) It’s why we remove malware from our search results and other products.” Whetstone’s blog post poked fun at Thomson’s assertion that by undermining the “basic business model of professional content creators” such as News Corp, Google was helping create a “less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue”, with the result that “intemperate trends” across Europe would proliferate.
(15) Hilton is married to Cameron's long-time friend Rachel Whetstone.
(16) He shares godparenting duties to Cameron's first child with Whetstone.
(17) We agree about free expression and the importance of high quality content,” said Whetstone.
(18) George Bridges, a former adviser to John Major who now runs the Tory "grid" which sets out party announcements hour-by-hour, is close to Howard and a close friend of Whetstone and Cameron.
(19) As part of the reorganisation, Rachel Whetstone, Google's European head of communications and former political secretary to Michael Howard, moved to the US to take the role of vice-president of communications and public affairs for Google.
(20) He joined Conservative Central Office on graduation, working alongside a young Cameron, and Whetstone.