STONE

Meaning of STONE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a brick/stone/wooden building

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The farmhouse is a long stone building about a century old.

a heart of stone (= a very cruel character )

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You’d have to have a heart of stone not to feel sorry for them.

a marble/stone/bronze etc statue

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a magnificent marble statue of Frederick the Great

a Rolling Stones/Kylie Minogue etc fan

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Mike has been a lifelong Kylie Minogue fan.

a stone cottage

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The village is full of old stone cottages with thatched roofs.

a stone/marble/bronze etc sculpture (= made of stone, marble etc )

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Opposite the chapel is a bronze sculpture of Cardinal Schwarzenberg.

a stone/wooden/iron bridge

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The iron bridge was built in 1811.

foundation stone

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Greek and Latin were once viewed as the foundation stones of a good education.

loose stones

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His rear wheel spun on the loose stones .

paving stone

philosopher's stone

precious stone

Stone Age

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Stone Age weapons

stone circle

stone dead

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The wrong music can kill a commercial stone dead.

stone deaf informal (= completely deaf )

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She must be stone deaf if she didn’t hear all that noise!

stone deaf

stone/brick/concrete wall

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The estate is surrounded by high stone walls.

the Stone Age (= the very early time in human history, when only stone was used for making tools, weapons etc )

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

cold

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But my spine seemed to turn to cold stone when I saw two other groups converging on the scene of combat.

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Placing one hand on the cold stone wall for guidance, she plunged forward.

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He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall.

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Dark cold stone loomed over him on both sides, blinding him.

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The cold stone whispered to her.

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I started up the cold stone steps to the gallery.

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He seemed to be as much part of it as the cold stone floor he was standing on.

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He was as cold as the stone she sat on, she thought forlornly.

dry

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From a dry stone wall inland, redstarts darted, like orange flames, tail feathers fanned and quivering.

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A dry stone conduit underlies the road here; a roadside marker is a metal keystone rusted blank.

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More thick dry stone arches connect the two ruins and lead the eye into a singular landscape.

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Away in the distance, beyond the foin, the land became fertile and fields began, enclosed by dry stone walls.

great

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We went to the back, to the great stone pond, to see what had happened to the fish.

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He stood with the others on the great stone pier.

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Like a great black stone slapped down upon the great wei chi board of Chung Kuo.

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It is true we no longer live in the cultures that produced the great temples or stone circles or earthworks.

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In the middle of the flat ground stood two great stones .

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They set the urn in a hollow grave and piled great stones over it.

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The moon was shining brightly on the great stones , and between them, on the flat ground, lay the girl.

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But behind the great stone structures, the land swells and softens in the sands of the Sahara.

grey

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Behind a grey stone wall lay a little pool.

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She paused for breath and found her hand on the grey standing stone .

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Nicholson looked up at the grey stone building.

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Her eyes were also grey like stones through clear water.

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Somewhere in the middle lay the depression of grey stone houses.

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I found an round grey stone , striped with white, but Dad said it was too small.

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Opposite, the fields of the abbey stretched to its grey stone walls.

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A large grey stone mansion, surrounded by rhododendrons.

huge

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The most ancient burial chambers consisted of huge stone slabs forming a chamber with entrances through which further corpses might be introduced.

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Some women ground corn or wheat on huge round stones .

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Everything was grey, hard and wild. Huge rough stones stood on the hard ground.

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One huge stone still stands at Lochmaben: seven feet-ten inches high, weighing about ten tons.

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It came from one of the huge stone jars in the herbalist's shop near the bottom of Manchester Road.

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The bear became extremely angry with the fly, and eventually seized a huge stone and succeeded in killing it.

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There was the same huge stone behind.

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The wind, playing on the huge stones , produced a strange tune, like the notes of a great harp.

large

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It too was replaced by a larger stone station, part of which still stands beside the modern structure which succeeded it.

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The largest Jilin stone weighed in at well over one thousand kilograms.

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From the heart of a large flat pebble-shaped stone he has revealed two fishes in brilliant, iridescent blues.

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The surgeons of our corps selected for a hospital a large massive stone building....

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There was one large stone farmhouse, outside which a small dark-haired girl was playing with some kittens by an empty farm-cart.

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However, if the small stones were put in first, it was impossible to add the large stones.

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So letters were left under large stones , wedged firmly in flowerpots or slipped under the door.

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On her fingers are three rings bearing large stones .

loose

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Boldly he kicked loose stones off the ledges and heard them clatter into the silence below.

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Then they were driving over rough ground, loose stones popping under the tyres.

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There aren't any loose stones .

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My brain feels like a loose stone in a dried leather pouch.

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I've been trying to find loose stones again.

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He moved lightly over the rough ground, dodging round bushes, avoiding every loose stone and broken twig.

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There is only one tall stone standing now and no white cross on the cairn-like mound of loose stones.

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Another mechanical argument against Copernicus concerns loose objects such as stones , philosophers, etc. resting on the surface of the earth.

old

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The old stones reeked of damp.

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Koju drove implacably on until we reached our destination Baabara, a cluster of old stone bungalows.

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All old stone paving slabs deserve retention, as do granite kerbs.

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On one side was the museum, a marvelous Romanesque Revival creation in an old reddish stone .

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It's only an old stone .

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The old stone pillars were shaking as if they were being brought back to life.

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When she was twenty-eight, she came home to teach a few young women in an old stone store.

precious

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Her designs are classical and very delicate, mainly in 18-carat gold jewellery and set with precious stones and pearls.

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Metaphorical bloodstains drench these precious stones , however, which makes a visit to the exhibition both eerie and wearisome.

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The dazzling inlay of precious stones was long ago picked out with daggers.

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He showed her the fruits he had gathered in the garden, and they had turned to precious stones .

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Before him lay precious stones of such size, variety and colour that would have made anyone who was not royal gasp.

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Diamonds and other highly precious stones varied too greatly in individual quality and worth for use as currency.

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Occasionally, precious stones and crystals are used for carving small idols.

small

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Past more small , stone houses.

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Nestled nearby each platform were rings filled with small stones .

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A bonfire blazed inside a small circle of stones .

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Little boys threw small stones at the bigger ones.

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Down the middle is a path of small stones .

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However, if the small stones were put in first, it was impossible to add the large stones.

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Gullies often become blocked by dead leaves and small stones which fall through the grating.

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The first thing I saw when my eyes blinked into focus was an ant marching over a small stone .

white

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It was an old-fashioned kind of garden - beds of roses edged with white stones , and a high, mossy wall.

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Then a white stone which had glittery lumps on it, but that wasn't smooth enough.

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A single white wei chi stone .

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We all sat in the courtyard at the front of his white stone house.

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Only a few blocks of white stone lay scattered on the ground in front of the Buddhas' huge niches.

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It was a stone house - white stone - with four rooms upstairs and four rooms downstairs.

■ NOUN

building

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The method of construction is different from that of Romanesque stone building .

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Nicholson looked up at the grey stone building .

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Beneath the present stone building were found traces of three earlier structures, all of timber, and all interpreted as churches.

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It was a four-storey stone building with one apartment on each floor.

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Osaka's decline is evident in the local prefectural office, a grand stone building with grimy linoleum floor coverings.

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Thus the earliest civilian activity belongs to the third century with the main stone buildings dated to the fourth.

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It is a stone building with a big low-pitched and stone-flagged roof, and its power is provided by two overshot waterwheels.

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Even though they lived inside stone buildings , they furnished them like tents.

circle

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I imagined solemn covens chanting, straggling torchlight processions winding up to mountain tops, stone circles , sacred trees and springs.

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It is true we no longer live in the cultures that produced the great temples or stone circles or earthworks.

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But even if we do accept the larger stone circles as computers, this does not really explain why people made them.

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Under sheltering trees stand three cairns and stone circles , worn yet awesomely dignified after more than 5,000 years.

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In the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, we find the beginning of temples, stone circles , and monumental earthworks.

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This Land of Our Fathers comes complete with Celtic stone circle , ancient swamps and iron-age huts.

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In the west of Ireland a small roadside shrine to the Virgin Mary stands almost alongside an equally modest stone circle .

floor

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Oh, two rugs on the stone floor were smouldering but the fire was contained.

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The kitchen was like a big utility room with a huge sink, a stone floor , and a large wooden table.

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There is a sudden scuffle as one of the dancers collapses, delirious on to the stone floor .

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Biko died on the stone floor of his cell the next day of severe head trauma and brain damage.

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He is afraid of falling and of the stone floor under him.

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He had a little hut with a stone floor , and a supply of handles and twigs.

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There was a large kitchen with a stone floor , but there was no fire, and the room was cold.

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At one end is the raised stone floor which at one time must have been a sleeping area.

foundation

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The foundation stone of the 519 feet structure was laid in 1891 and the complex opened at Whitsuntide 1894.

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Mr Knospe laid the foundation stone and drank his share of champagne at a party in his honor.

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He laid the foundation stone of the new greenhouse and later gave 150 guineas for its repair.

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Secondly, and most important, it would lay the foundation stones of the series from which the myth could be built.

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For over a century the accountancy profession has built its reputation on three foundation stones: objectivity, integrity and competence.

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The foundation stone was laid on 27 July 1848 by the Duke of Cambridge.

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Many believed that this means it is the foundation stone of the earliest basilica.

gall

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Many studies suggest that sludge formation is a marker of gall stone formation.

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The reason for the greater total lipid concentration in cholesterol gall stone patients is not clear at present.

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Paired hepatic and gall bladder bile samples were collected from 10 patients with cholesterol gall stones and six patients without gall stones.

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When it was designed, oral cholecystectography was the method of choice for the diagnosis of gall stones .

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As yet, there is no information about nucleation times measured in this way in patients with complete gall stone dissolution.

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These findings suggest that factors, in addition to biliary cholesterol saturation, are responsible for the formation of cholesterol gall stones .

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No gall stones , gall bladder wall thickening, or other pathology were identified in any subject.

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The aetiology of cholesterol gall stones has not been completely elucidated.

house

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Set above a handsome forecourt, the stone house has four well-spaced bays, mullioned windows, parapets and gables.

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Inside the restored stone house , an altar crowned by a statue of Mary drew the devout and the curious.

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Past more small, stone houses .

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On the far side of a tan cut cornfield a whitewashed stone house sends up smoke.

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The stone houses and tenements which replaced them, however, often continued to sport timber galleries above the street.

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We all sat in the courtyard at the front of his white stone house .

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Somewhere in the middle lay the depression of grey stone houses .

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The two-bedroom rented stone house had been a perfect companion: quiet, comfortable and cozy.

kidney

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BFoy struggled through a relapse, hospitalized for kidney stones , a side effect of his drug regimen.

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They did know that despite those high amounts, they could, with careful management, prevent kidney stones .

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Women get kidney stones most often during that same age period as a result of an infection that occurs with pregnancy.

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Frequently, hypercalciuria and kidney stones are the presenting complaint.

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The news about calcium and kidney stones is a case in point.

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Those who got the most calcium from their diets were at lower risk for kidney stones .

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Treatment Progress Since 1980, treatment for serious kidney stones has moved from huge incisions, to punctures, to non-invasive techniques.

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If you go back to the earliest burial grounds, you will find kidney stones and gall stones.

paving

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As they do so they step on a large paving stone , one which differs from its fellow stones by being black.

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Back alleys and building sites, a concrete subway dripping cold, paving stones lurching in sand and black water.

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Rhizoids of jungle creep between the paving stones .

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He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester.

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He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge.

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But good intentions make notoriously treacherous paving stones .

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He started walking again, treading carefully on the cracks between the paving stones .

wall

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It lies against a stone wall , shielded by birch and fur, overlooking a garden of remembrance, containing more memorials.

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It does not respect stone walls .

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Arkhina had moved calmly into the shelter of the high stone wall .

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The line at the stone wall gives way!

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Opposite, the fields of the abbey stretched to its grey stone walls .

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All have a kitchen with smoke-blackened stone walls and a rough and ready loo hut.

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A stile over a stone wall led into a field whose furthest wall consisted of the grey squat towers of the castle.

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We could see grassy tracks winding through the fields between stone walls and hedges of prickly pear.

■ VERB

build

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Scott's building was formerly the Midland Grand Hotel, and is built of brick with stone dressings.

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Further along the gravel road we encountered two old men outside a farmhouse built of stone .

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Unlike its neighbours which were built of local stone , the vicarage had been encased in grey stucco early in its life.

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I live in a crumbling cathedral, a beaux-arts building festooned with curling stone and stained glass.

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It is built of stone , and there is a little cupola with Gothic trimmings on the top.

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But the bottom of the building is stone with glass openings and the metalwork holding it.

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Phil Physioc, his brother, father and sons built a little stone summer cabin upon it by hand.

carve

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The men were then seconded to Britain to assemble the intricately carved blocks of stone that make up the temple building.

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A view, in other words, unsullied by buildings with the names of individuals carved in stone on their facades.

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Now most of the monasteries have carved stairways into the stone or erected bridges to usher outsiders into their world.

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In general, male stones are employed for making major icons of Gods while the pedestal is carved out of female stones.

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The Colonel did drive me to Jaisalmer, a city of carved golden stone set at the edge of the Thar.

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They are not carved on tablets of stone .

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He neither moved nor made a sound, like a figure carved of stone .

cast

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His killer had rifled his wallet before casting the stone into the stream.

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Rather, remain calm, let Mailer be Mailer, refrain from casting stones and you will be rewarded.

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Let he who is without sin cast the first stone , I may be hearing you say.

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A time to gather stones together, a time to cast away stones.

lay

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There he lay , in knightly stone effigy, with a row of eight knights in stone cartoon-strip below him.

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Mr Knospe laid the foundation stone and drank his share of champagne at a party in his honor.

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Mr Gladstone laid the foundation stone .

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Before him lay precious stones of such size, variety and colour that would have made anyone who was not royal gasp.

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Together he and Eleanor laid foundation stones for the monastery of St Augustine in Limoges in 1171.

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He laid the foundation stone of the new greenhouse and later gave 150 guineas for its repair.

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Good workmen they must have been, to lay stones , so scarred by time and events, and still so true.

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Secondly, and most important, it would lay the foundation stones of the series from which the myth could be built.

lose

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She had lost three stones in four months and had extremely slim hips and thighs to prove it.

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But he could only side-slice the tortoise-shell, and he lost two stones to Alistair before he had another go at it.

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Jones is in a Merseyside clinic after losing a stone and a half in weight over the last seven days.

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He has lost I stone and he is 73.

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She lost three stone on the low fat diet and reduced from a size 16 to a size 8!

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Three months later I am fitter and have lost two stone .

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Since embarking on the diet Barbara has lost over a stone and her inch loss is quite remarkable.

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I have just started my first ever diet in a bid to lose about half a stone .

throw

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Usually he lingered by the stream to throw in stones , but today he didn't stop.

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Partygoers rocked a bus and threw stones and bottles at police officers and patrol cars.

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Others began jeering and eventually threw bottles and stones .

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Little boys threw small stones at the bigger ones.

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Some of the people ran away when they saw me, but the others shouted and threw stones at me.

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Crowds of angry, panicky depositors threw stones at government buildings and police.

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He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone .

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The boys would throw stones or snowballs with rocks in them.

turn

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But my spine seemed to turn to cold stone when I saw two other groups converging on the scene of combat.

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One day, Shawn turned over a stone , and oh the excitement of discovering a new world!

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It will only turn her to stone , I promise you.

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Soon he wanted to turn over every stone and log in the forest.

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The setting sun had turned the pale stone walls to gold.

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He showed her the fruits he had gathered in the garden, and they had turned to precious stones .

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It uses them to turn over stones when it is looking for food.

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Guy turned to consider the stone hall.

weigh

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And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon.

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I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line: before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten.

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But the big two, weighing 35 stones between them, reckon he's got no chance.

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I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line: before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten.

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The lifeguard, who weighs fifteen stone and does not shave beneath her arms, yells at me to stop.

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A Prague newspaper said yesterday that he weighed 36 stone .

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The bad news is he weighs just under 30 stone at press time, down fourteen stone from his previous weight.

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Suitcases that had once been quite light now felt as if they were weighed down with stones .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a hail of bullets/stones etc

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At 8am police officers, accompanying prison staff, tried to enter the centre but were met by a hail of stones.

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Sandra Mitchley, 35, died immediately in a hail of bullets.

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The man got within twenty yards of the tape before a hail of bullets finally brought him down.

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The mere appearance of a uniform is often enough to provoke a hail of stones, even a riot.

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They knew they had entered small-arms range when a hail of bullets crippled the steering.

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Three West Belfast men died in a hail of bullets.

a rolling stone gathers no moss

be faced with stone/concrete etc

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It is faced with stone on the outside and red marble inside.

be written/set/cast in tablets of stone

kill sth stone dead

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Indeed, as expectations can kill the magic stone dead, such occasions are often evoked by going somewhere completely new.

kill two birds with one stone

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Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.

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Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.

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By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.

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In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.

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Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.

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Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.

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Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.

like getting blood out of a stone

people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

skim stones/pebbles etc

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Small boys skim stones across the surface of the river.

skip rocks/stones

stepping stones

the Stone Age

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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a stone wall

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Kids were throwing stones into the water.

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Messina is a city built of stone .

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The gold ring was set with four precious stones.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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And he insists that the museum trustees acted without authority when they gave the stones away.

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Bernice knelt at the wall, pressing her ear against the stone .

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Does he believe that one can get blood out of a stone ?

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He is afraid of falling and of the stone floor under him.

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It is not difficult to construct your own labyrinth, either in stones or cut into your lawn.

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The Oxford sequences were shot in Edinburgh and the uncompromising stone facades of that city become darker and darker.

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

death

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Then, one by one, they were stoned to death .

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I remember hearing stories in my childhood about how women like that were stoned to death in the old country.

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The beheading of murderers, the flogging and stoning to death of adulterers, the circumcision of women?

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Not even homophobes would today sanction the stoning to death of homosexuals.

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Had the court believed her, the men could have been convicted of adultery and stoned to death .

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They might approve of, and practice, ostracizing homosexuals from society, but stoning them to death ?

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The girl was to be guarded until she delivered, at which time she was to be stoned to death .

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TheJewish council stoned Stephen to death after he denounced them.