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.
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.
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.
like getting blood out of a stone
people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
stepping stones
the Stone Age
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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During the riot the mob started stoning the British embassy.
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The thieves were caught and sentenced to be stoned to death.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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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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Late last year five women wearing T-shirts were stoned in Dili's central market for dressing inappropriately and talking on mobile phones.