BONE


Meaning of BONE in English

(~s, boning, ~d)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Your ~s are the hard parts inside your body which together form your skeleton.

Many passengers suffered broken ~s...

Stephen fractured a thigh ~...

The body is made up primarily of ~, muscle, and fat...

She scooped the chicken ~s back into the stewpot.

N-VAR

2.

If you ~ a piece of meat or fish, you remove the ~s from it before cooking it.

Make sure that you do not pierce the skin when boning the chicken thighs...

VERB: V n

3.

A ~ tool or ornament is made of ~.

...a small, expensive pocketknife with a ~ handle.

ADJ: usu ADJ n

4.

see also marrow ~ , T-~ steak

5.

The bare ~s of something are its most basic parts or details.

There are not even the bare ~s of a garden here–I’ve got nothing.

PHRASE

6.

If something is too close to the ~, it makes you feel uncomfortable because it is very close to the truth or to the real nature of something.

PHRASE: usu v-link PHR

7.

If you make no ~s about something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.

Some of them make no ~s about their political views.

PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR about n

8.

If you make no ~s about doing something that is unpleasant or difficult or that might upset someone else, you do it without hesitating.

Stafford-Clark made no ~s about reapplying for the job when Daldry was standing for it.

PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR about -ing

9.

If something such as costs are cut to the ~, they are reduced to the minimum possible.

It has survived by cutting its costs to the ~...

Profit margins have been slashed to the ~ in an attempt to keep turnover moving.

PHRASE: PHR after v

10.

You use to the ~ to indicate that you are very deeply affected by something. For example, if you feel chilled to the ~, your whole body feels extremely cold, often because you have had a shock.

What I saw chilled me to the ~.

PHRASE: PHR after v

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