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2 N‑COUNT A stone is a small piece of rock that is found on the ground. □  He removed a stone from his shoe.

3 N‑COUNT A stone is a large piece of stone put somewhere in memory of a person or event, or as a religious symbol. □  The monument consists of a circle of gigantic stones.

4 N‑UNCOUNT Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed. □  Scientific opinions are not carved on tablets of stone; they change over the years.

5 N‑COUNT You can refer to a jewel as a stone . □  …a diamond ring with three stones.

6 N‑COUNT [usu n N ] A stone is a small hard ball of minerals and other substances which sometimes forms in a person's kidneys or gall bladder. □  He had kidney stones.

7 N‑COUNT The stone in a plum, cherry, or other fruit is the large hard seed in the middle of it. [mainly BRIT ] in AM, usually use pit 8 VERB If you stone a fruit, you remove its stone. [mainly BRIT ] □ [V n] Then stone the fruit and process the plums to a puree. in AM, usually use pit 9 VERB If people stone someone or something, they throw stones at them. □ [be V -ed] A post office was set on fire and vehicles were stoned by looters.

10 N‑COUNT A stone is a measurement of weight, especially the weight of a person, equal to 14 pounds or 6.35 kilograms. [BRIT ] □  I weighed around 16 stone.

11 → see also stoned , foundation stone , paving stone , precious stone , stepping stone

12 PHRASE If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other. □  …a two-bedroom apartment just a stone's throw from the beach. □  Just a stone's throw away is the City Art Gallery.

13 PHRASE If you say that you will leave no stone unturned , you are emphasizing that you will try every way you can think of in order to achieve what you want. [EMPHASIS ] □  He said he would leave no stone unturned in the search for peace.

14to kill two birds with one stone → see bird

Sto ne Age N‑PROPER The Stone Age is a very early period of human history, when people used tools and weapons made of stone, not metal.

sto ne-co ld

1 ADJ If something that should be warm is stone-cold , it is very cold. □  Hillsden took a sip of tea, but it was stone cold.

2 PHRASE If someone is stone-cold sober , they are not drunk at all. [INFORMAL ]

stoned /stoʊ nd/ ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] If someone is stoned , their mind is greatly affected by a drug such as cannabis. [INFORMAL ]

sto ne-dea d PHRASE If you kill something such as an idea or emotion stone-dead , you completely destroy it. [EMPHASIS ] □  Any idea of saving money had been killed stone dead.

sto ne dea f also stone-deaf ADJ [usu v-link ADJ ] Someone who is stone deaf cannot hear at all.

sto ne-ground also stoneground ADJ [usu ADJ n] Stone-ground flour or bread is made from grain that has been crushed between two large, heavy pieces of stone.

stone|mason /stoʊ nme I s ^ə n/ (stonemasons ) N‑COUNT A stonemason is a person who is skilled at cutting and preparing stone so that it can be used for walls and buildings.

stone|wall /stoʊ nwɔː l, [AM ] -wɔːl/ (stonewalls , stonewalling , stonewalled ) VERB If you say that someone stonewalls , you disapprove of them because they delay giving a clear answer or making a clear decision, often because there is something that they want to hide or avoid doing. [DISAPPROVAL ] □ [V ] The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment. [Also V on n] ●  stone|wall|ing N‑UNCOUNT □  After 18 days of stonewalling, he at last came out and faced the issue.