STONE Synonyms

• art highly prized for its beauty or perfection

• a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

• a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry

• a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan

• a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry

• a small smooth rounded rock

• a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town

• a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin

• rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

• a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy

• To stop working (of an electronic device)

• a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

• a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line

• a piece of dried bovine dung

• a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

• a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

• a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

• electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

• (golf) a low running approach shot

• the act of chipping something

• break off (a piece from a whole)

• cut a nick into

• play a chip shot

• form by chipping

• break a small piece off from

• rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads

• pave with cobblestones

• repair or mend

• capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary

• a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water

• formed by the coalescence of particles

• cover with cement

• form into a solid mass; coalesce

• a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

• a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

• a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

• showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

• plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz

• something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness)

• rock fragments and pebbles

• cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

• cover with gravel

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals

• a hard crystalline metamorphic rock that takes a high polish; used for sculpture and as building material

• a small ball of glass that is used in various games

• a sculpture carved from marble

• paint or stain like marble

• relating to minerals

• solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition

• composed of matter other than plant or animal

• French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)

• a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral

• fortitude and determination

• rub with sandpaper

• a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.)

• a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay

• block consisting of a thick piece of something

• (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate

• thin layers of rock used for roofing

• a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers

• a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices

• designate or schedule

• enter on a list or slate for an election

• cover with slate

• a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)

• a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

• the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed

• (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

• an enclosure in which animals are made to fight

• (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on

• (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled

• a trap in the form of a concealed hole

• a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate

• lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers

• a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

• set into opposition or rivalry

• mark with a scar

• remove the pits from