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Stone can be a verb, an adjective, a noun or an adverb.

stone used as a verb:

  1. To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
  2. To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
  3. To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
  4. To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

stone used as an adjective:

  1. Constructed of stone.
    "stone walls"
  2. Having the appearance of stone.
    "stone pot"
  3. Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
  4. Complete, absolute, of the highest degree.
    "stone free"

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

stone used as a noun:

  1. A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
  2. A small piece of stone.
  3. A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
  4. (plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ≈ 6.3503 kilograms
    "1843: Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds. — The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202."
  5. The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
    "a peach stone"
  6. A hard, stone-like deposit.
    "kidney stone"
  7. A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
  8. A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
  9. A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

stone used as an adverb:

  1. As a stone (used with following adjective).
    "My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold."
  2. Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
    "I went stone crazy after she left."

An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →

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What type of word is stone?

As detailed above, 'stone' can be a verb, an adjective, a noun or an adverb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: stone walls
  2. Adjective usage: stone pot
  3. Adjective usage: stone free
  4. Noun usage: 1843: Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds. — The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.
  5. Noun usage: 1882: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England Volume 4, p. 209.
  6. Noun usage: a peach stone
  7. Noun usage: kidney stone
  8. Noun usage:
  9. Adverb usage: My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.
  10. Adverb usage: I went stone crazy after she left.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of stone are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of stone, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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