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"STONES" is a plural of: stone. |
Date "STONES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Literature | Stones Aerolites, or stones which have fallen from heaven. J. Norman Lockyer says the number of meteors which fall daily to the earth "exceeds 21 millions." (Nineteenth Century, Nov., 1880, p. 787.) The largest aerolith on record is one that fell in Brazil. It is estimated to weigh 14,000 lbs. In 1806 a shower of stones fell near L'Aigle, and M. Biot was deputed by the French Government to report on the phenomenon. He found between two and three thousand stones, the largest being about 17 lbs. in weight. Eagle stones. (See Eagle-Stones.) Health stones. Purites (2 syl.) found in Geneva and Savoy. So called from the notion that it loses its steel-blue colour if the person in possession of one is in ill-health. Square stones. The most ancient idols were square stones. The head and limbs were subsequent additions. Touchstones. (q.v.) Stones. After the Moslem pilgrim has made his seven processions round the Caaba, he repairs to Mount Arafat, and before sunrise enters the valley of Mena. where he throws seven stones at each of three pillars, in imitation of Abraham and Adam, who thus drove away the devil when he disturbed their devotions. Standing stones. The most celebrated groups are those of Stonehenge, Avebury, in Wiltshire, Stennis in the Orkneys, and Carnac in Brittany. The Standing Stones of Stennis, in the Orkneys, resemble Stonehenge, and, says Sir W. Scott, furnish an irresistible refutation of the opinion that these circles are Druidical. There is every reason to believe that the custom was prevalent in Scandinavia as well as in Gaul and Britain, and as common to the mythology of Odin as to Druidism. They were places of public assembly, and in the Eyrbiggia Saga is described the manner of setting apart the Helga Feli (Holy Rocks) by the pontiff Thorolf for solemn meetings. Stones fallen down from Jupiter. Anaxagoras mentions a stone that fell from Jupiter in Thrace, a description of which is given by Pliny. The Ephesians asserted that their image of Diana came from Jupiter. The stone at Emessa, in Syria, worshipped as a symbol of the sun, was a similar meteorite. At Abydos and Potidæ'a similar stones were preserved. At Corinth was one venerated as Zeus. At Cyprus was one dedicated to Venus, a description of which is given by Tacitus and Maximus Tyrius. Herodian describes a similar stone in Syria. The famous Caaba stone at Mecca is a similar meteor. Livy recounts three falls of stones. On November 27th, 1492, just as Maximilian was on the point of engaging the French army near Ensisheim, a mass weighing 270 lbs. fell between the combatants; part of this mass is now in the British Museum. In June, 1866, at Knyahinya, a village of Hungary, a shower of stones fell, the largest of which weighs above 5 cwt.; it was broken in the fall into two pieces, both of which are now in the Imperial Collection at Vienna. On December 13th, 1795, in the village of Thwing, Yorkshire, an aërolite fell weighing 56 lbs., now in the British Museum. On September 10th, 1813, at Adare, in Limerick,. fell a similar stone, weighing 17 lbs., now in the Oxford Museum. On May 1st, 1860, in Guernsey county, Ohio, more than thirty stones were picked up within a space of ten miles by three; the largest weighed 103 lbs. (Kesselmeyer and Dr. Otto Buchner: The Times, November 14th, 1866.) You have stones in your mouth. Said to a person who stutters or speaks very indistinctly. The allusion is to Demosthenes, who cured himself of stuttering by putting pebbles in his mouth and declaiming on the sea-shore. "The orator who once Did fill his mouth with pebble stones When he harangued," Butler: Hudibras, i. 1. Precious stones. Said to be dew-drops condensed and hardened by the sun. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. Detached particles of rock usually smaller than 10 in (25 cm) in diameter. Stones are classed as gravel on bottom sediment charts b. In mica, small embedded crystals or holes resulting from stones. Alsocalled stone holes. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Rolling Stones are a British rock band who rose to prominence during the mid-1960s. The band was named after a song by Muddy Waters, a leading exponent of hard-rocking blues. (This was a popular choice of name; at least two other bands are believed to have called themselves The Rolling Stones before the "real" Stones were formed.) In their music, the Rolling Stones were the embodiment of the idea of importing blues style into popular music. Their first recordings were covers or imitations of rhythm and blues music, but they soon greatly extended the reach of their lyrics and playing, but rarely, if ever, lost their basic blues feel.
The original lineup included Mick Jagger (vocals), Brian Jones (guitar), Keith Richards (guitar), Ian Stewart (piano), Charlie Watts (drums) and Bill Wyman (bass). By the time of their first album release Ian Stewart was "officially" not part of the band, though he continued to record and perform with them.
Brian Jones, although popular and charismatic, was forced out of the band and died an enigmatic death, presumed accidental at the time, although accusations have surfaced that he was murdered. Jagger and Richards took over songwriting and performance leadership. Jones had favored sticking close to the blues base, although he had also experimented with the sitar, but Jagger and Richard broadened their approach.
Early History: 1961-1967
The band came into being in 1961 when former schoolfriends Jagger and Richards met Brian Jones, while all three were students (Jones & Richards at art school, Jagger at the London School of Economics). United by their shared interest in rhythm and blues music the group rehearsed extensively, playing in public only occasionally at Alexis Korner's Crawdaddy Club in London. At first Jones, a guitarist who also toyed with numerous other instruments, was their creative leader. Taking their name from a Muddy Waters song, the band rapidly gained a reputation in London for their frantic, highly energetic covers of the blues and R'n'B songs of their idols and, through manager Andrew Oldham were signed to Decca Records (who had passed when offered The Beatles). At this time their music was fairly primitive: Richards had learned much of his guitar playing from the recordings of Chuck Berry, and had not yet developed a style of his own, and Jagger was not as in control of the idioms as he would soon become. Already though, the rhythmic interplay between Watts and Richards was clearly the heart of their music.
The choice of material on their first record, a self-titled EP, reflected their live shows. Similarly, the album The Rolling Stones which appeared in April 1964 featured versions of such classics as . The performances, despite often being raggedly inferior to the originals, were pivotal in introducing a generation of white British youth to R'n'B music, and helped to fuel the "British Invasion". More importantly perhaps, while The Beatles were still suited, clean-cut boys with mop-top haircuts, the Stones cultivated the opposite image: decidedly unkempt, and posing for publicity photographs like a gang.
The follow-up album, The Rolling Stones #2 was also composed mainly of cover tunes, only now augmented by a couple of songs written by the fledgling partnership of Jagger and Richards. Encouraged by Oldham, the band toured Europe and America continuously in their support, playing to packed crowds of screaming teenagers in scenes reminiscent of the height of Beatlemania. While on tour they took time to visit important locations in the history of the music that inspired them, recording the EP Five By Five at the studios of Chess Records in Chicago.
Back at home these early years of success represented a rare period of stability in the personal relationship between the band members. Jagger, Richards and Jones were sharing a house and Jones had begun to see Anita Pallenberg, an actress and model who introduced them to the circle of society in which she moved: a group of young artists, musicians and film makers. Prompted by Oldham, who possessed sufficient business acumen to see where money was to be made, Jagger and Richards became more prolific songwriters and 1965's Out Of Our Heads contained much self-penned material, including the classic "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", and saw the dynamic of the band began to change, with Jagger and Richards starting to emerge as the percieved leaders of the band. Jones, not unaware of his reduced importance, retreated into drug abuse, alienating both Richards and Pallenberg, who began a liaison that would last over ten years. During this period Pallenberg's opinions about the music, as one of the few people the band trusted, should not be underestimated.
With the main songwriters maintaining their rate of production, Aftermath (1966) continued the progression, consisting entirely of Jagger/Richards compositions including "Mother's Little Helper", about anti-depressants, and the misogynistic "Under My Thumb", whereas on Between The Buttons (1967) they wore the influences of their many contemporaries, including The Who and The Kinks.
Sex, Drugs, Death, and Rock & Roll: 1967-1971
By now the band had become almost synonymous with part of the rebellious spirit of the 1960s, and in particular a more relaxed attitude towards drug use. As a reaction the police obtained warrants to search Richards' country home, Redlands. The February 1967 raid, now legendary in the band's mythology, occurred during one of the regular parties, where police discovered a moderate quantity of cannabis. The raid also served as a source of apocryphal stories, mainly concerning the appearance and demeanor of their friend Marianne Faithfull, which only served to augment their reputation for debauchery. Richards was charged and a few months later stood trial for allowing drug use in his home. Amidst intense press interest he was convicted and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, prompting The Times newspaper to run an editorial criticising the verdict. Beneath the title "Who Breaks A Butterfly On A Wheel" editor William Rees-Mogg wrote:
During the furore, Decca shrewdly released Flowers, a rapidly cobbled-together collection of hits and studio outtakes that was nevertheless a hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
- "If we are going to make any case a symbol of the conflict between the sound traditional values of Britain and the new hedonism, then we must be sure that the sound traditional values include those of tolerance and equity."
With Richards out on bail within a day, and shortly to be acquitted on appeal, work commenced on a new "psychedelic" album, which Jagger envisioned as the group's response to the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. The record, which would eventually be released as Their Satanic Majesties' Request received lukewarm reviews -- the songs and arrangements did not lend themselves to their natural style and the increasingly-strung-out Brian Jones contributed little -- but, despite Richards later pronouncing it "crap", still produced a small number of songs which showcased the improving songwriting of Jagger and Richards. Within the band the dynamic was changing with the two principal writers steadily usurping power from the former leader, Jones, with Pallenberg as their eminence grise.
After the excesses of Satanic Majesties, and with personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the band returned to the black music that had originally inspired them on 1968's Beggars Banquet. Despite the tension, and aided by an excellent sound from an up-and-coming producer named Jimmy Miller, Jagger and Richards produced some of their most memorable work -- including the distorted acoustic guitar driven "Street Fighting Man" and the anthemic "Sympathy For The Devil" -- and the Stones entered the phase that would see them billed as "The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". The songs themselves were firmly rooted in the blues, but tempered by the changes that occurred in 1960s music, assimilating the imagery of Dylan and the emergent heavy rock of Cream and Jimi Hendrix. In contrast to its predecessor, however, it was a clear rejection of the "Hippie" ethic, replacing the platitudes of "free love" with a layer of sleaze. Two other events contributed to the change in the Stones' sound. Firstly, Richards had played extensively with Ry Cooder, appropriating his open-G guitar tuning and some of his sinuous style (much to Cooder's dismay, who publicly accused Richards of "ripping him off"). Secondly, both Mick and Keith befriended Gram Parsons, who helped educate them about the country music with which he had grown up. Music was not all the Stones and the independently wealthy Parsons had in common: "We liked drugs," Richards said later, "and we liked the finest quality."
Drugs were, however, making Jones increasingly unreliable. Now Jagger and Richards were not only providing most of the material but were also in charge of the group's artistic direction, away from the blues preferred by Jones and towards a harder-rocking sound. Increasingly Jones was either abscent of recording sessions by choice or locked out of them. After his minimal contribution to Beggar's Banquet he found himself forced out in May 1969, replaced by the young, jazz-influenced guitarist, Mick Taylor, then of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Within two months, and a matter of days before the new-look band were due to play a free concert in London's Hyde Park, Jones was found drowned in his swimming pool. The concert went ahead, with an audience of hundreds of thousands of fans, with Jagger reading from Keats "Adonais" and releasing a flock of tragically short lived butterflies by way of tribute to the late guitarist. The band's performance, under rehearsed and suffering from the remaining members narcotic intake, was somewhat shambolic. Shortly after the band released their highly successful single, "Honky Tonk Women," recorded without Jones but too early for Taylor to contribute.
Their studio work was another matter. Let It Bleed (1969) followed a short time later and was rapidly hailed another classic, featuring the slow and brooding "Gimme Shelter", the folk inflected "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (featuring a boys choir) and a further nod to their roots with a cover of Robert Johnson's "Love In Vain".
Immediately, the band set off on another US tour, characterised by the hedonism that their position in rock's aristocracy afforded them. In an attempt to recreate the atmosphere of Hyde Park, and as a reaction to the Woodstock rock festival the tour culminated in a free concert given at Altamont, a disused racetrack outside San Francisco. Poorly organised, and with on-site security provided by the Hell's Angels (at the suggestion of the Grateful Dead), the concert was a disaster, featuring running battles between fans and security which reached a head when Meredith Hunter, a young black fan who had unwisely brought a pistol (and a white girlfriend) to the show, was stabbed and beaten to death by the Angels during the band's performance of "Under My Thumb". (The concert would be documented in Albert and David Mayles' film Gimme Shelter).
The murder, coming so soon after the death of Jones, had a harrowing effect on Richards and his reaction to the events was to increase his usage of heroin. He would spend the best part of next decade as a junkie, taking occasional cures in private clinics but always returning to the drug, and each subsequent tour would become a logistical nightmare to ensure a regular supply in the face of trouble from the police and customs officers. Richards has always maintained that the one facet of his life that was unaffected was his live performance. Concert tapes, including the time in 1976 when he fell asleep on stage, do not bear this out.
In time heroin would sap Richards' creativity and lead to more tragic events, but in 1971 the band showed no sign of slowing. Sticky Fingers (1971), the band's first record under their own Rolling Stones Records label, continued where Let It Bleed had left off, featuring the rocking "Brown Sugar" (another big hit), the country-styled "Wild Horses" (which showed the influence of Parsons, and which caused a disagreement between him and Jagger and songwriting credits) and a version of Faithfull's "Sister Morphine", about her own ambiguous relationship with heroin.
Letting It Bleed: 1972-1981
As Richards removed himself from society, Jagger began to move in more elevated social circles. He married the pregnant Nicaraguan model Bianca Pérez Mora Macías and the couple's jet-set lifestyle put further distance between himself and Keith. They did have one further classic album within them. Pressured by the UK Inland Revenue service about several years of unpaid income tax, the band left for the South of France, where Richards rented a chateau and sublet rooms to the band members and assorted hangers-on. Using the recently completed Rolling Stones Mobile Studio they set about recording the double album Exile on Main Street (1972) in the basement of their new home. Dismissed by some on its release as sprawling and self-indulgent, the record is now considered among the band's greatest. The film Cocksucker Blues documents the subsequent tour.
It would also be one of the last on which the band still functioned as a unit. By the time Exile had been completed Jagger had made the other band members aware that he was more interested in the celebrity lifestyle than working on its follow-up, and increasingly their records were made piecemeal, with tracks and parts laid down as, and when, the band, and Jagger and Richards in particular, could get together and remain amicable for sufficiently long to do so. When it finally arrived, Goats Head Soup (1973) was disappointing, with the Stones unique sound diluted by the influence of glam rock and memorable only for the hit single "Angie", popularly believed to be about David Bowie's new wife but in reality another of Richards' odes to Pallenberg. The making of the record was not helped by another legal battle over drugs, this one dating back to their stay in France.
By the time they came to Munich to record 1974's It's Only Rock And Roll, there were even more problems. Regular producer Jimmy Miller was not asked to participate in the sessions because of his increasing unreliabillity due to drug use. Critics generally wrote the album off as uninspired and "more of the same" from a band percieved as artistically stagnating, but both album and single were huge hits, even without the customary tour to promote them.
Intra-band strife continued. Mick Taylor's intricate lead style and shy persona never quite matched Richards' outspoken image and basic, Chuck Berry inspired rhythm work. By the time of It's Only Rock And Roll Richards was reportedly berating Taylor during recording sessions, and Taylor contributed little to the album. Irked by percieved mistreatment, and a small share of the band's royalties, Taylor announced he was leaving the band shortly before sessions commenced for the next album, Black and Blue (1976).
The Rolling Stones used the Black and Blue sessions (again in Munich) to audition possible replacements. Guitarists stylistically far flung as Humble Pie lead Peter Frampton and ex-Yardbirds impressario Jeff Beck were auditioned. American session players Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel appeared on much of the album, but the band settled on Ron Wood, a long time friend of Richards and guitarist with The Faces, whose singer Rod Stewart had recently gone solo. Wood had already contributed to It's Only Rock 'n Roll, but his first public act with the band would be the 1975 American Tour.
The shows featured a new format for the Stones with their usual "five guys on stage, playing" act replaced by increasingly theatrical stage props and gimmicks, including a giant inflatible phallus and a cherry picker on which Jagger would soar out over the audience. This represented a further breakdown in Mick and Keith's relationship -- the pragmatic Richards considering it entirely superfluous and distracting from the music. Again, Jagger was if nothing else shrewdly interpreting market trends- the mid-1970s were the era of flashy stage acts such as Kiss and Elton John, and the band's tours were to become even more expensive and elaborate in the years to come.
Although the Rolling Stones remained hugely popular through the '70s, music critics had grown increasingly dismissive of the band's output. Keith Richards would have more serious concerns in 1977. Despite having spent much of the previous year undergoing a series of drug therapies to help withdraw from heroin, including (allegedly) having having his blood filtered, Richards and Pallenberg were arrested in a Toronto hotel room and charged with possession of heroin. The case would drag on for a year, with Richards eventually receiving a suspended sentence and ordered to play a concert for a local charity. This motivated a final concerted attempt to his drug habit, which proved largely successful. It also coincided with the end of his relationship with Pallenberg, which had become increasingly strained since the tragic death of their third child (an infant son named Tara).
While Richards was settling his legal and personal problems, Jagger continued his jet set lifestyle. He was a regular at New York's Studio 54 disco club, often in the company of model Jerry Hall. His marriage to Bianca would end in 1977.
By this time punk rock had become highly influential in pop circles, and the Stones were increasingly criticized as being decadent, aging millionaires, their music was considered by many to be either stagnant or irrelevant. Clash vocalist Joe Strummer even went so far as to declare "No Beatles, no Stones, no Elvis in '77."
In 1978 the band recorded Some Girls, their most focused and successful album for some time, despite the perceived misogyny of the title track upsetting many. Jagger and Richards seemed to channel much of the personal turmoil surrounding them into renewed creative vitality. With the notable exception of the disco-influenced "Miss You," (a hit single and a live staple) most of the songs on the album were fast, basic guitar-driven Rock and Roll, and the album did much to quell the band's critics.
Emotional Rescue (1980) was in a similar vein, but lacked the redeeming features of its predecessor. Tattoo You (1981), like the album before it, was composed mainly of unused songs from earlier recording outings (The ballad "Waiting on a Friend" dated all the way back to the Goats Head Soup sessions). It also featured the single "Start Me Up," showing that Richards was still capable of writing guitar parts of the same calibre as ten years earlier. Tatoo You and the subsequent tour were major commercial successes.
Still Standing: 1981-present
Throughout the early 1980s the Jagger/Richards partnership continued to falter, and their records would suffer because of it. 1983's Undercover was widely seen as Jagger's attempt to make the Rolling Stones' sound more compatible with current musical trends. The album's slick production and violent political and sexual content alienated both critics and fans. To make matters worse, Ron Wood was now suffering from his own growing drug habit.
In 1982 Jagger signed a major solo deal with the band's new label, CBS Records. This move angered Richards, who saw it as a lack of commitment to the band. Indeed, Jagger was spending a great deal of time on his solo recordings and most of the material on 1986's Undercover was authored solely buy Keith Richards (indeed, many would later speculate that after years of making decisions in drug-addled Richards' place, Jagger resented Richards reasserting creative control). The album again sold poorly, and sales were probably hurt by Jagger's decision not to tour in support of the album.
To add to the band's woes in 1986, longtime collabortator and unofficial band member Ian Stewart died of a massive heart attack. The Rolling Stones' only live appearance during this time was a tribute to Stewart. By this point Jagger and Richards had begun openly criticize each other in the press, and many observers assumed the Rolling Stones had broken up. Sales of Jagger's solo records (She's The Boss (1985) and Primitive Cool (1987)) did not live up to expectations. Ironically, Richards' first solo record, Talk Is Cheap (1988), which he had been reluctant to make because of his loyalty to the Stones, was well received by both fans and critics, prompting Jagger to shelve his own solo career and reform the group for 1989's Steel Wheels album and tour, widely heralded as a return to form.
In 1991 Wyman left the band and published "Stone Alone", a frank and honest autobiography. (In 2002, Wyman would write an even more ambitious coffee table tome entitled "Rolling With the Stones"). After leaving the band, Wyman was replaced by respected session musician Darryl Jones in time to record Voodoo Lounge (1994) and Bridges to Babylon -- both highly praised -- and to tour in support both records.
The Rolling Stones were awarded a Grammy for lifetime achievement in 1986 and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
Highlights
- On July 30, 2003, the band headlined the Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to help the city overcome the effects of the 2003 SARS epidemic. It was attended by an estimated 450,000 people, the largest concert in Canadian history.
- On November 9, 2003, the band played its first ever concert in Hong Kong as part of Harbour Fest celebration.
- In November of 2003 the band exclusively licensed the right to sell their new 4-CD boxed set to the Best Buy chain of stores. In response, major music retail chains (including Tower Records, Virgin Records and HMV) have pulled all Rolling Stones CDs and related merchandise from their shelves and replaced them with signs explaining the situation.
Notes
1: Record releases: The early Stones albums -- from The Rolling Stones to Flowers -- whose creation is described above, were originally released on Decca Records in the UK. They were, however, repackaged, resequenced and/or retitled for release in the United States. All references above are to the original UK releases.
2: It is an often repeated misconception that Meredith Hunter's murder at Altamont took place during "Sympathy For The Devil". This was originally reported in Rolling Stone magazine, considered by some to be the "journal of record" for 1960s music. The aptness of this legend has ensured that no amount of subsequent corrections (in that publication and elsewhere) has been able to correct this impression.
See Greil Marcus's essay "Myth and Misquotation", collected in "The Dustbin Of History".See also: The Rolling Stones (novel), a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "The Rolling Stones."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Attack | Throw a stone, throw stones at; stone, lapidate, pelt; hurl at, hurl against, hurl at the head of; rock |
Failure | Verb: fail; be unsuccessful; Adjective: not succeed; make vain efforts;Noun: do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white; (impossible); roll the stones of Sisyphus; (useless); do by halves; (not complete); lose ground; (recede); fall short of. |
Malevolence | Molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use. |
MATERIALITY | Object, article, thing, something; still life; stocks and stones; materials . |
Prediction | Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy; by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books, Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy. |
Teaching | Phrase: the schoolmaster abroad; a bovi majori disscit arare minor; adeo in teneris consuecere multum est; docendo discimus; quaenocent docent; qui docet discit; "sermons in stones and good in everything". |
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Crosswords: STONES |
| English words defined with "STONES": Meteoric stones. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STONES": Abraxas Stones, array of stones ♦ Harold's Stones ♦ Philadelphia Stones ♦ Sarsen Stones, Standing Stones. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STONES": Trilithon. (references) |
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Screenplays | Have the Rolling Stones killed (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Well, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) Rolling Stones, 11 years old. (The Bad News Bears; writing credit: Bill Lancaster) Hey Fish, does it hurt when those stones come out (Barney Miller; writing credit: Danny Arnold) Destiny Stones can break my bones, but you guys are real losers (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) | |
Lyrics | For the Rolling Stones (Don't Rock The Jukebox; performing artist: Alan Jackson) But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside (Smoke on the Water; performing artist: Deep Purple) Holding hands and skimming stones (Crocodile Rock; performing artist: Elton John) Dropping circle stones on a sun dial (MOONCHILD; performing artist: King Crimson) Go digging in stones (IF YOU WANT TO FIND LOVE; performing artist: Roger) | |
Clever | 1968: Rolling Stones. 1998: Kidney stones. (references; author: unknown) A man who lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones. (references; author: unknown) Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can shatter my soul. (references; author: unknown) The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (references; author: unknown) Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Four Stones for Kanemitsu (1973) Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1973) The Rolling Stones (1960) Rolling Stones (1936) Stepping Stones (1932) | |
Song Titles | Angie (performing artist: Rolling Stones) Emotional Rescue (performing artist: Rolling Stones) Harlem Shuffle (performing artist: Rolling Stones) MISS YOU (performing artist: ROLLING STONES) Mixed Emotions (performing artist: Rolling Stones) | |
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 | Aggregate hailstone. Large hailstone with smaller stones visible. Ruler shows radius of this remarkable hail stone. Diameter is approximately 6 inches - the size of a grapefruit. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | Large hail collects on streets and grass during severe thunderstorm. Larger stones appear to be nearly 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |
 | Figure 73. Thoulet device for measuring the virtual density of large samples. Julien Thoulet described this method in 1905 for determining the apparent density of pumice stones, in order to better understand the origin of these rocks which were found in abundance in bottom samples obtained by the PRINCESSE ALICE. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Native home with Yapese money stones indicating great wealth. Stones were mined on Palau and carried by outrigger canoe 300 miles. Money stones are quarried from stalactites in limestone caves. Credit: Small World. |
 | Village chief's house with many money stones. Credit: Small World. |  | Man unloading stones from sledge. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Talk did it -- hot sticks and stones!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | People who don't live in glass houses can have trouble with stones. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Four African men playing board game with stones, Kenya. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Men chopping wood, damming stream, and washing ore demonstrate a sluicing method for obtaining stones from which tin is made. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Stones" by Ben Pritchard Commentary: "These are some stones on a beach somewhere..." | "Portsmouth Stones" by Thomas Norris Commentary: "Some mini-columns from my family's trip to Portsmouth, NH on 30 Nov. 2003 As I was taking this, my mom was saying, "Ahh, he's being creative and weird."." |
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Benjamin Franklin | Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass. |
Bion | Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. |
Elbert Hubbard | Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. |
George Herbert | Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another. |
John Burroughs | Nature teaches us more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. |
John L. Motley | Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. |
Thomas C. Haliburton | Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. |
William Blake | Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. |
William Shakespeare | Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. |
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John Locke | 1690 | It is labour then which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth any thing: it is to that we owe the greatest part of all its useful products; for all that the straw, bran, bread, of that acre of wheat, is more worth than the product of an acre of as good land, which lies waste, is all the effect of labour: for it is not barely the plough-man's pains, the reaper's and thresher's toil, and the baker's sweat, is to be counted into the bread we eat; the labour of those who broke the oxen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which are a vast number, requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being made bread, must all be charged on the account of labour, and received as an effect of that: nature and the earth furnished only the almost worthless materials, as in themselves. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Allied and Associated Governments may file with the Reparation Commission lists showing: (a) Animals, machinery, equipment, tools and like articles of a commercial character, which have been seized, consumed or destroyed by Germany or destroyed in direct consequence of military operations, and which such Governments, for the purpose of meeting immediate and urgent needs, desire to have replaced by animals and articles of the same nature which are in being in German territory at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty; (b) Reconstruction materials (stones, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, wood, window-glass, steel, lime, cement, etc.), machinery, heating apparatus, furniture and like articles of a commercial character which the said Governments desire to have produced and manufactured in Germany and delivered to them to permit of the restoration of the invaded areas. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The moisture of the stones and the sliminess of the floor made them bad points of support, whether for the hand or the foot |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I am not made of stones, But penetrable to your kind entreaties, Albeit against my conscience and my soul |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A few stones were in the crossing |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | They have a kind of hard flints, which by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I love better to see stones in place |
As You Like It | William Shakespeare | Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in the stones, and good in every thing |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Shapes of various stones. (references) | |
Stones in the urinary system. (references) | ||
Calcium may form stones in the kidney. (references) | ||
Business | They are also lighter than many stones, marble, etc., therefore, resulting in more efficient and lower shipping costs. (references) | |
Ceramic marble also does not contain the metal components found in marble, granite and other natural stones, which may be hazardous to one’s health. (references) | ||
These technologies are considered 2.5G technologies as they are seen as stepping stones to the third generation (3G) mobile network that provides the "always on" nature of Internet connectivity of 3G but not quite at the capacity and quality of 3G. 2.5 G technologies are backward compatible with 2G (GSM network), meaning the new GPRS/EDGE network elements are compatible with current back operation/business support systems. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Haiti | They began to throw stones and fire weapons. (references) |
Haiti | One opposition member was hit in the head by stones. (references) | |
Argentina | Previously Oeschger had received telephone threats and stones were thrown at his house. (references) | |
Economic History | Russia | Principal U.S. imports ($5.81 billion)--aluminum, precious stones and metals, iron, and steel. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Other deposits of tungsten, cobalt, tin, rutile, ilmenite, precious stones, and ornamental stone exist. (references) | |
Zambia | The potential to cut and polish marble, precious stones, gemstones and malachite for export is immense. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | On June 21, a group of ZANU-PF youths threw stones at his house. (references) |
Cuba | These individuals shout epithets and throw stones or other objects at the target's house. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | The definition of "life threatening" can include situations in which persons are throwing stones. (references) | |
Minorities | Poland | In October a group of youths beat some members of the Buddhist Center of Krakow and threw stones at the building. (references) |
Yugoslavia | On October 10, a group of men threw stones at Romani houses, breaking some windows, in the Cukaricka Padina settlement in Belgrade. (references) | |
East Timor | In the early months of 2000, a group of approximately 250 ethnic Malay Muslims residing at the mosque compound in Dili were harassed by local youth gangs who were throwing stones at the mosque and surrounding structures. (references) | |
Political Economy | Western Sahara | Some Sahrawi youths reportedly joined the women and threw stones at police. (references) |
Madagascar | The smuggling of vanilla, gold, and precious stones, and cattle rustling continued to be major concerns. (references) | |
BULGARIA | Licenses are required for a specific, limited list of goods including radioactive elements, rare and precious metals and stones, certain pharmaceutical products, and pesticides. (references) | |
Trade | Turkey | Precious metals and stones, excluding diamonds, can only be imported by commercial banks authorized by the Central Bank (Decree No. 93/4143, March 21, 1993). (references) |
Pakistan | These include live animals, beef and mutton, wheat, cotton, rice, arms, ammunition and explosives, nuclear substances, precious and semi-precious stones, poppy seeds, and ferrous and non-ferrous metal. (references) | |
Ireland | Other items subject to import licensing requirements include coal and lignite fuel, a few products from the chemical and related industries, specified iron and steel products, various textiles and textile products, natural and synthetic precious and semi-precious stones and dust, zinc (plate, sheet, strip, and foil), and controlled items such as arms and munitions. (references) | |
Worker Rights | India | In addition there is a reasonable basis to believe that products were produced using forced or indentured child labor in the following industries: Brassware; hand-knotted wool carpets; explosive fireworks; footwear; hand-blown glass bangles; hand-made locks; hand-dipped matches; hand-broken quarried stones; hand-spun silk thread and hand-loomed silk cloth; hand-made bricks; and beedis (hand-rolled cigarettes). (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Three tall crosses rise up from the stones, and atop each cross, an anchor, an ancient symbol of hope. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "STONES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 89.98% of the time. "STONES" is used about 3,271 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 89.98% | 2,943 | 3,172 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.02% | 328 | 15,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,271 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "STONES" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Stones | Last name | 300 | 28,278 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "STONES". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Regem | N/A | Biblical | That stones or is stoned |
| Regemmelech | N/A | Biblical | He that stones the king |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "STONES": a stones throw ♦ array of stones ♦ Augrim stones ♦ break stones ♦ broken stones ♦ clearing stones ♦ Crab's stones ♦ cut stones ♦ dress stones ♦ Druid stones ♦ Ear stones ♦ fill with stones ♦ Gout stones ♦ Kidney Stones ♦ know the stones ♦ layer of stones ♦ Lively stones ♦ meteoric stones ♦ mound of stones ♦ pelt smb. with stones ♦ pile of stones ♦ precious stones ♦ roll the stones of Sisyphus ♦ stocks and stones ♦ stones throw ♦ throw stones ♦ throw stones at. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "STONES": stones-ian, stones-throw. | |
Ending with "STONES": corner-stones, gall-stones, mill-stones, paving-stones, seal-stones, stepping-stones. | |
Containing "STONES": Hendrix-stones-byrds. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rolling stones.com | 89 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STONES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | عجم نوى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разчистване от камъни (clearing stones). (various references) | |
Chinese | 硍 (rumbling of rolling stones), 砌 (to build by laying bricks or stones), 砅 (cross stream by stepping on stones), 沙石 (sand and stones). (various references) | |
Danish | struvitsten (struvite stones, struvite uroliths), uratsten (urate acid calculus, urate stones), pudsebord (edges or bottom surface of the sole, machine consisting of a series of grinding stones, polishing brushes and felts used to give a good surface to the uppers), imitationer af aedelsten (imitation precious stones), gødningsstoffer,rå undtagen gødningsstoffer henhørende under afdeling 56,og mineraler,rå,undtagen kul,olie og ædelsten (and crude minerals, crude fertilizers, excluding coal, other than those of division 56, petroleum and precious stones), fremstilling af smykker,guld-og sølvvarer,bearbejdning af ædelsten og smykkesten (manufacture of articles of jewellery and goldsmiths'and silversmiths'wares;cutting and otherwise working of precious and semi-precious stones), drænlag (bedding, cell barrier, depletion zone, rubble stones, space charge), at anbringe en midlertidig afstivning for at beskytte arbejderne mod skred og nedstyrtning af sten (insertion of a temporary lining to protect the workmen from falls of ground or stones). (various references) | |
Dutch | steenslag (broken stones, chippings, road-metal, rubble, stone-chippings), steenlaag (bedding, rubble stones), rollaag (bedding, rubble stones, soldier course), onechte edelstenen (imitation precious stones), natuurlijke meststoffen,m.u.v.die van afdeling 56,en ruwe minerale produkten,m.u.v.steenkool,aardolie en edelstenen (and crude minerals, crude fertilizers, excluding coal, other than those of division 56, petroleum and precious stones), fabrieken van sieraden,goud-en zilversmeedwerk,diamantnijverheid e.d. (manufacture of articles of jewellery and goldsmiths'and silversmiths'wares;cutting and otherwise working of precious and semi-precious stones), een voorlopige bekleding aanbrengen ter bescherming van de arbeiders tegen instorting en steenval (insertion of a temporary lining to protect the workmen from falls of ground or stones), bed (bed). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝtonetaro (broken stones, chippings, road-metal, rubble, stone-chippings). (various references) | |
Finnish | sepeli (macadam, road metal), raakalannoitteet lukuun ottamatta luokkaa 56 sekä valmistamattomat mineraalit lukuun ottamatta hiiltä (and crude minerals, crude fertilizers, excluding coal, other than those of division 56, petroleum and precious stones), kuivike (bedding, rubble stones), kivittää (pelt with stones), kiviröykkiö (heap of stones), jalokivikorujen ja muiden kultasepäntuotteiden valmistus (manufacture of articles of jewellery and goldsmiths'and silversmiths'wares;cutting and otherwise working of precious and semi-precious stones), heittää löylyä (throw water on hot stones), öljyä ja jalokiviä (and crude minerals, crude fertilizers, excluding coal, other than those of division 56, petroleum and precious stones). (various references) | |
French | noyaux, concrétions pierreuses. (various references) | |
German | Steine (shales). (various references) | |
Greek | κοσμηματοποία,χρυσοχοϊα,αργυροχοϊα,κατεργασία πολύτιμων λίθων (manufacture of articles of jewellery and goldsmiths'and silversmiths'wares;cutting and otherwise working of precious and semi-precious stones), πάγκος με βούρτσες (edges or bottom surface of the sole, machine consisting of a series of grinding stones, polishing brushes and felts used to give a good surface to the uppers), λιπάσματα ακατέργαστα,εκτός απ'αυτά που αναφέρονται στην υποδιαίρεση 56,και ορυκτά ακατέργαστα,εκτός από άνθρακα,πετρέλαιο και πολύτιμους (petroleum and precious stones), απομιμήσεις πολύτιμων πετρών (imitation precious stones), τοποθέτησις ενός προσωρινού υποστηρίγματος προστασίας των εργατών από κατακρημνίσεις της οροφής ή από πτώσεις λίθων (insertion of a temporary lining to protect the workmen from falls of ground or stones). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לגבוש (fill with stones), לסתת (chisel, cut stones, dress stones, face), קרוב מאד (a stones throw), דומוס (layer of stones, mansion, palace), סקול (clearing stones, stoning). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vádol vkit (to cast stones at sy, to throw stones at sy), megvádol vkit (to cast stones at sy, to throw stones at sy), megkövez vkit (to cast stones at sy, to pelt sy with stones, to throw stones at sy), még a kövek is feljajdulnak (stones will cry out), követ tör (to break stones), követ dob vkire (to aim a stone at sy, to cast stones at sy, to throw stones at sy), kőzápor (shower of stones), kővel megdobál vkit (to cast stones at sy, to pelt stones at sy, to throw stones at sy), elítél vkit (to cast stones at sy, to pass a sentence upon sy, to throw stones at sy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membatui (arrange stones, pave, stone). (various references) | |
Italian | sottofondo (background, backing, substratum), scogliera in massi ordinati (array of blocks, array of stones, riprap, set rubble stone), scogliera (bluff, cliff, reef, rock), produzione di articoli di gioielleria,oreficeria ed argenteria,taglio e lavorazione delle pietre dure e preziose (manufacture of articles of jewellery and goldsmiths'and silversmiths'wares;cutting and otherwise working of precious and semi-precious stones), messa in opera di una armatura provvisoria per proteggere i minatori contro franamenti o distacchi di frammenti di rocce (insertion of a temporary lining to protect the workmen from falls of ground or stones), imitazioni di pietre preziose (imitation precious stones), imitazioni di gemme (imitation precious stones), concimi greggi diversi da quelli della divisione 56 e minerali greggi,con esclusione del carbone,del petrolio e delle pietre preziose (and crude minerals, crude fertilizers, excluding coal, other than those of division 56, petroleum and precious stones), calcolo uratico (urate acid calculus, urate stones), banco a spazzole (edges or bottom surface of the sole, machine consisting of a series of grinding stones, polishing brushes and felts used to give a good surface to the uppers). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 膀胱結石 (bladder stones, cystoliths), 飛石 (stepping-stones), 飛び石伝い (crossing via stepping-stones), 飛び石 (stepping-stones), 玉石 (gems and stones, pebble, wheat and tares), 石組み (arrangement of stones in a garden), 石焼き芋 (sweet potatoes baked in hot stones or pebbles), 石焼き (baking by means of hot stones or pebbles), 石子詰め (burying alive beneath stones), 礫 (throwing stones), 半貴石 (semiprecious stones), 土石 (earth and stones), 木石 (trees and stones, unfeeling person), 奇岩怪石 (strangely shaped rocks and bizarre stones), 布石 (preparation, strategic arrangement of go stones). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎょくせき (gems and stones, wheat and tares), きがんかいせき (strangely shaped rocks and bizarre stones), ぼくせき (trees and stones, unfeeling person), ぼうこうけっせき (bladder stones, cystoliths), ふせき (preparation, strategic arrangement of go stones), どせき (earth and stones), つぶて (spitball, throwing stones, thrown rock), いしぐみ (arrangement of stones in a garden), いしこづめ (burying alive beneath stones), いしやきいも (sweet potatoes baked in hot stones or pebbles), いしやき (baking by means of hot stones or pebbles), はんきせき (semiprecious stones), とびいしづたい (crossing via stepping-stones), とびいし (stepping-stones). (various references) | |
Manx | keimyn (stepping stones), claghyn king (top stones), claghyn buighid (bile stones), claghey (stone, stone throwing, throwing stones), claghan (cluster of houses, hamlet, small stone, stepping stones), castey (appease, beat back, censor, check, choke back, contain, counter, cure, defeat, end, freeze, freeze as loan, hitch, inhibit, preclude, staunch, stave off, suppress, throwing stones). (various references) | |
Maya | si'in-tun (cooking stones), mul-tun (boundary stones). (various references) | |
Norwegian | steinsprut (broken stones, chippings, road-metal, rubble, stone-chippings). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onesstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pedra britada (broken stones, crushed stone), joalharia e ourivesaria (manufacture of articles of jewellery and goldsmiths'and silversmiths'wares;cutting and otherwise working of precious and semi-precious stones), imitações de pedras preciosas (imitation precious stones), imitações de gemas (imitation precious stones), fundação (establishment, foundation, foundry, institution), colocação dum sustimento provisório para proteger os trabalhadores contra os desmoronamentos ou quedas de blocos (insertion of a temporary lining to protect the workmen from falls of ground or stones), banco de escovas (edges or bottom surface of the sole, machine consisting of a series of grinding stones, polishing brushes and felts used to give a good surface to the uppers), avalanche de pedras (broken stones), adubos em bruto,que não figuram na divisão 56,e minerais,excluindo hulha,petróleo e gemas (and crude minerals, crude fertilizers, excluding coal, other than those of division 56, petroleum and precious stones). (various references) | |
Romanian | arunca cu pietre (shy, throw stones). (various references) | |
Russian | роллинг стоунз (rolling stones), очищение от камней (clearing stones), забрасывать камнями (pelt, pelt with rocks, pelt with stones). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgairneach (a continuous heap of loose stones on a hill side), tabhal (a sling, a sling to cast stones with), dìg (a wall of loose stones, ditch; dyke), cuirnean (a small heap of stones), clachair (builder of stones, mason), càrn (a horning. The Gaelic seems a confusion between còrn, a pile, a sledge, heap of stones, pile). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kamen za prečišćavanje (clearing stones). (various references) | |
Spanish | cascajo (broken stones, chippings, gravel, grit, road-metal, rubble, Spall, stone-chippings). (various references) | |
Swedish | stenar. (various references) | |
Turkmen | gaю (before, encrustations, inlayed stones), daюlamak (stone, throw stones at). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виконувати важку роботу (break stones, moil, travail). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 4, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Allo de epesen epi to petrwdeV opou ouk eicen ghn pollhn kai euqewV exaneteilen dia to mh ecein baqoV ghV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aliud vero cecidit super petrosa ubi non habuit terram multam et statim exortum est quoniam non habebat altitudinem terrae |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Sum feoll ofer stanscylygean. þær hitnæfde mycele eorðan. & sone up-eode. & for þan hit næfde eorðe þicdnysse. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Othere felde doun on stony places, where it had not myche erthe; and anoon it spronge vp, for it had not depnesse of erthe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Some fell on stony grounde where it had not moche erth: and by and by sprange vp because it had not deepth of erth: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 4, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ug may ubang mga binhi nga diha mahulog sa kabatoan, diin dili daghan ang yuta, ug kini migitib dayon sanglit kini wala may giladmon diha sa yuta; |
| Croatian | Neko opet pade na kamenito tlo gdje nemaše dosta zemlje. Odmah izniknu jer nemaše duboke zemlje. |
| Danish | Og noget faldt på Stengrund, hvor det ikke havde megen Jord; og det voksede straks op, fordi det ikke havde dyb Jord. |
| Dutch | En het andere viel op het steenachtige, waar het niet veel aarde had; en het ging terstond op, omdat het geen diepte van aarde had. |
| Finnish | Ja osa putosi kallioperälle, jossa sillä ei ollut paljon maata, ja se nousi kohta oraalle, kun sillä ei ollut syvää maata. |
| Gaelic | Agus thuit cuid eile air talamh creagach, far nach robh moran uire aige: `S ghrad-dh` fhas e, chionn nach robh doimhneachd fuinn aige: |
| German | Etliches fiel in das Steinige, wo es nicht viel Erde hatte; und ging bald auf, darum daß es nicht tiefe Erde hatte. |
| Hungarian | Némely pedig a köves helyre esék, a hol nem sok földje vala, és hamar kikele, mivel nem vala mélyen a földben. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ada juga yang jatuh di tempat berbatu-batu yang tanahnya sedikit. Benih-benih itu segera tumbuh karena kurang tanah, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Ada separuh jatuh di tempat yang berbatu-batu, yang tiada banyak tanahnya, maka dengan segera benih itu tumbuh, sebab tanahnya tiada dalam. |
| Maori | Ko etahi i ngahoro ki te wahi kamaka, ki te wahi kihai i nui te oneone; a pihi tonu ake, kahore hoki i hohonu te oneone. |
| Norwegian | Og noget falt på stengrunn, hvor det ikke hadde meget jord; og det kom snart op, fordi det ikke hadde dyp jord, |
| Portuguese | Outra caiu no solo pedregoso, onde não havia muita terra: e logo nasceu, porque não tinha terra profunda; |
| Rumanian | O altq parte a cqzut pe un loc stkncos, unde n`avea mult pqmknt: a rqsqrit kndatq, pentrucq n`a dat de un pqmknt adknc; |
| Shuar | Chikichcha kaya írunmanum iniararmai, nunka ishichik ámanum. Tura nunka ishichik asamtai Wárik tsapainiarmai. |
| Swahili | Nyingine zilianguka penye mawe pasipokuwa na udongo mwingi. Mbegu hizo ziliota mara kwa kuwa udongo haukuwa na kina. |
| Swedish | Och somt föll på stengrund, där det icke hade mycket jord, och det kom strax upp, eftersom det icke hade djup jord; |
| Uma | Ria wo'o to monawu' hi tana' to watua, hangkedi' -wadi tana' -na. Hinawu' -na toe sohi' lia tuwu', apa' moreni' tana' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "STONES": amazonstones, birthstones, bloodstones, bluestones, bondstones, brimstones, brownstones, buhrstones, burrstones, burstones, capstones, cherrystones, clingstones, cobblestones, copestones, copingstones, cornerstones, curbstones, dripstones, earstones, eyestones, felstones, fieldstones, firestones, flagstones, flowstones, footstones, freestones, gallstones, gemstones, gladstones, goldstones, gravestones, greenstones, grindstones, hailstones, headstones, hearthstones, histones, holystones, hornstones, inkstones, ironstones, keystones, limestones, loadstones, lodestones, marlstones, mifepristones, milestones, millstones. (additional references) | |
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"STONES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Essonnes, Ostanes, setone, setons, shones, sones, Sotons, sponse, sstone, stodes, stoes, Stoessl, stoney, stonks, Xstone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STONES" (pronounced stō"nz) |
| 4 | -t ō" n z | intones, tones. |
| 3 | -ō" n z | bemoans, bones, clones, condones, cones, cyclones, drones, groans, hipbones, Jones, knowns, leones, loans, moans, owns, phones, postpones, quinones, scones, sones, trombones, unknowns, zones. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: onsets, setons, stenos. | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: nests, noses, notes, onset, seton, snots, sones, steno, stone, tones. | |
-2 letters: eons, ness, nest, nets, noes, nose, note, ones, oses, sent, sets, snot, sone, sons, sots, tens, toes, tone, tons, toss. | |
-3 letters: ens, eon, ess, net, nos, not, oes, one, ons, ose, sen, set, son, sos, sot, ten, toe, ton. | |
-4 letters: en, es, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: hotness, nestors, nosiest, sextons, softens, sonnets, soonest, stemson, stepson, stoners, telsons, tensors, testons, tonuses. | |
+2 letters: assentor, astonies, bonesets, congests, consents, contests, contuses, countess, eftsoons, essonite, estrones, ethnoses, festoons, histones, inosites, isotones, knotless, lostness, mestinos, moistens, monsters, moonsets, neustons, noisiest, noteless, oestrins, pentoses, posteens, posterns, sections, senators, sentimos, shortens, snorters, snowiest, softness, solonets, solvents, songfest, songster, sonsiest, sorbents, soundest, soutanes, starnose, stemsons, stenosed, stenoses, stenosis, stentors, stepsons, sternson, stollens, stoniest, stoutens, subtones, sunstone, tensions, testoons, toneless, tonsures, townless, treasons. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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