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“stone”
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Greek, lithos, "stone, stony"; metal)
(Latin: stone, rock)
(Greek: stone, rock; hard consolidated mineral matter; hard matter formed from mineral and earth material; hard substance that is solid)
(Greek: Magnesian [stone]; Magnesia having been a mineral-rich region of Thessaly)
(Greek > Latin: stone, rock)
(Greek > Latin: pebble/pebbles, stone/stones; election; vote)
(Latin: rock, rocky, stone, broken rock, rough stone)
(Latin: lime, calcium; heel, bone of the tarsus; to tread; derived from calx, calcis, "limestone, lime, pebble"; from Greek words halix and psephos, "small stone, pebble".)
(Latin: caementa, "stone chips" from caedere, "to cut down, chop, beat, hew, fell, slay")
(Modern Latin: from Swedish, tung sten, "heavy stone"; the symbol is from German Wolfram;, named for the tungsten mineral wolframite; metal)
(Latin: nut, kernel of a nut; stone of a fruit; central part of a cell)
(Latin: the pouch that holds the testes; a purse; probably a variant of scortum, "a skin, hide"; or of scrautum, "a leather bag for holding arrows"; akin to scrupus, "a sharp stone")
(Latin: uneasiness, anxiety, doubt, especially, over a moral issue; literally, "small, sharp stone or pebble")
(Greek: an inscribed stone slab; a block of stone, gravestone; a column, a pillar [also a reference to certain plant structures])
(resin to amber stone to electricity)
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“stone”
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A lithoid form, whose onward course
Is shaped by gravitational force,
Can scarce enjoy the consolation
Of bryophytic aggregation.
Cast the first stone (John 8:7)
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Bible Quotations used in modern English
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Stone Age
A generic term for that period of the human past in which stone, bone, and wood were the primary raw materials from which tools were made.
It covers the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods.
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Archeology, Archaeology
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