Tra từ Stone - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

see also GROUND
- a hard, solid substance which is found in the ground: stone (noun U)
Most of Edinburgh is built of stone. ◎ a stone wall/bridge/building
- the hard stony part of the earth: rock (noun U)
That part of the land is solid rock.
- very hard grey stone used in building and, in the past, to make fire: flint (noun U)
ancient flint axes
- dark grey stone that can be split into thin flat pieces and is used for making the roofs on some houses: slate (noun U)
a slate roof
- a hard attractive stone often used to make statues and parts of buildings: marble (noun U)
a marble statue
- a soft white rock: chalk (noun U)
chalk cliffs
- a hard often grey rock used in building: granite (noun U)
- a light yellow coloured rock formed from sand: sandstone (noun U)
※ big stones and small stones
- a piece of stone or rock: stone, rock
to throw a stone at sb ◎ Huge rocks often slip down the side of the mountain and onto the road.
- having many stones or rocks: stony, rocky
a stony beach ◎ rocky islands
- a very large stone: boulder
- a large heavy piece of stone with flat surfaces: block, slab
a block of stone/marble/sandstone ◎ huge stone slabs
- a large piece or area of rock that sticks out of the sea: rock
He swam out to sea and sat on a big rock. ◎ The ship crashed against the rocks.
- a small smooth round stone which is found in or near water: pebble; having a lot of pebbles: pebbly
a pebbly beach
- very small pieces of stone that are used for making roads and pathways: gravel (noun U)
a gravel path
- very small pieces of stone (sometimes put on roads after it has snowed): grit (noun U)
- to put grit on a road: grit sth
The roads were very icy and hadn't been gritted.
- a powder made of very small pieces of rock, found on beaches and in the desert: sand (noun U); having a lot of sand: sandy
a lorryload of sand ◎ a sandy beach
※ using stone
- to form sth (for example a statue) by cutting away material from stone: carve sth (out of/from/in sth)
She carved the figure of a horse out of a large block of stone. ◎ a beautiful statue carved in marble
- a person who cuts and prepares stone or builds with stone: stonemason
- the art of making shapes and objects from stone, etc: sculpture (noun U); a person who does this: sculptor
※ more on sculpture SCULPTURE
- a place where sand and stone are dug out of the ground: quarry
a chalk quarry