stone lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• a small smooth rounded rock
• building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
• a lack of feeling or expression or movement "he must have a heart of stone" "her face was as hard as stone"
• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter "he threw a rock at me"
• the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
• a unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust "that mountain is solid rock" "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
• a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife" "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
• the formation of stones (calculi) in an internal organ
• game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board" "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"