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Roc vs. Stone — What's the Difference?

Roc vs. Stone — What's the Difference?

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Roc

A gigantic mythological bird described in the Arabian Nights.

Stone

Hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material
The houses are built of stone
High stone walls

Roc

A mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength.

Stone

A piece of stone shaped for a purpose, especially one of commemoration, ceremony, or demarcation
A memorial stone
Boundary stones

Roc

An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
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Stone

A hard seed in a cherry, plum, peach, and some other fruits.

Roc

A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology.

Stone

A unit of weight equal to 14 lb (6.35 kg)
I weighed 10 stone

Roc

Mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength

Stone

A natural shade of whitish or brownish-grey
Stone stretch trousers

Stone

Throw stones at
Two people were stoned to death
Policemen were stoned by the crowd

Stone

Remove the stone from (a fruit).

Stone

Build, face, or pave with stone
The honey-stoned, eighteenth-century city

Stone

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock.

Stone

Such concreted matter of a particular type. Often used in combination
Sandstone.
Soapstone.

Stone

A small piece of rock.

Stone

A piece of rock that is used in construction
A coping stone.
A paving stone.

Stone

A gravestone or tombstone.

Stone

A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone.

Stone

A milestone or boundary.

Stone

A gem or precious stone.

Stone

Something, such as a hailstone, resembling a stone in shape or hardness.

Stone

(Botany) The hard covering enclosing the seed in certain fruits, such as the cherry, plum, or peach.

Stone

(Medicine) A mineral concretion in an organ, such as the kidney or gallbladder, or other body part; a calculus.

Stone

Pl. stone Abbr. st. A unit of weight in Great Britain, 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms).

Stone

(Printing) A table with a smooth surface on which page forms are composed.

Stone

Relating to or made of stone
A stone wall.

Stone

Made of stoneware or earthenware.

Stone

Complete; utter. Often used in combination
A stone liar.
Stone-deaf.

Stone

Completely; utterly
Stone cold.
Standing stone still.

Stone

To hurl or throw stones at, especially to kill with stones.

Stone

To remove the stones or pits from.

Stone

To furnish, fit, pave, or line with stones.

Stone

To rub on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen.

Stone

(Sports) To block a shot taken by (an opponent). Used of a goalie.

Stone

(Obsolete) To make hard or indifferent.

Stone

(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.

Stone

A small piece of stone, a pebble.

Stone

A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

Stone

(British) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight.

Stone

(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
A peach stone

Stone

(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

Stone

(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.

Stone

A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

Stone

(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

Stone

A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.

Stone

(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.

Stone

(obsolete) A testicle.

Stone

A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.

Stone

(transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
She got stoned to death after they found her.

Stone

(transitive) To wall with stones.

Stone

(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

Stone

(intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.

Stone

To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. Usually in passive

Stone

To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.

Stone

(transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Stone

Constructed of stone.
Stone walls

Stone

Having the appearance of stone.
Stone pot

Stone

Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

Stone

(AAVE) Used as an intensifier.
She is one stone fox.

Stone

(LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
Stone butch; stone femme
Pillow princess

Stone

As a stone used with following adjective.
My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.

Stone

(slang) Absolutely, completely used with following adjectives.
I went stone crazy after she left.
I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.

Stone

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar.

Stone

A precious stone; a gem.

Stone

Something made of stone. Specifically: -

Stone

The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
Lend me a looking-glass;If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,Why, then she lives.

Stone

A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

Stone

A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
Should some relenting eyeGlance on the where our cold relics lie.

Stone

One of the testes; a testicle.

Stone

The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

Stone

A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.

Stone

Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
I have not yet forgot myself to stone.

Stone

A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; - called also imposing stone.

Stone

To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Stone

To make like stone; to harden.
O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.

Stone

To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

Stone

To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

Stone

To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Stone

A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter;
He threw a rock at me

Stone

Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust;
That mountain is solid rock
Stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries

Stone

Building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose;
He wanted a special stone to mark the site

Stone

A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry;
He had the gem set in a ring for his wife
She had jewels made of all the rarest stones

Stone

The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed;
You should remove the stones from prunes before cooking

Stone

An avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds;
A heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone

Stone

United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

Stone

United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

Stone

United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

Stone

United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)

Stone

United States architect (1902-1978)

Stone

A lack of feeling or expression or movement;
He must have a heart of stone
Her face was as hard as stone

Stone

Kill by throwing stones at;
Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran

Stone

Remove the pits from;
Pit plums and cherries

Stone

Of any of various dull tannish-gray colors

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