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adj
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adv
Used before an adjective as an intensifier
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Usage: not-comparable
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name
A surname.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
An unincorporated community in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, named after Orion Jost Bone.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A bonefish.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
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noun
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The framework of anything.
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Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A dollar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable
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noun
The wishbone formation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
Topics: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
An erect penis; a boner.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
A domino or die.
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Usage: countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable
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noun
A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
A reward.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Clipping of trombone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
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noun
A Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber aircraft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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verb
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
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Synonyms: debone, unbone
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verb
To fertilize with bone.
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verb
To put whalebone into.
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verb
To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: civil-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To have sexual intercourse (with).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, slang, usually, vulgar
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Synonyms: approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, intercourse, know, know someone in the biblical sense, make love, mate, share a bed, sleep together, strain, bang, bauf, beat, bone, boff, boink, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, clap cheeks, dance, discuss Uganda, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, expletive deleted, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, get the dirty water off one's chest, graft the forked tree, go all the way, haul one's ashes, have it away, have it off, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hook up, hump, jig-jig, knock boots, lay pipe, lay the pipe, make it, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, meddle, ming, Netflix and chill, penetrate, pipe, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, pound, rail, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, screw, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, shaboink, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, stick, tumble, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, beep, be with, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, fill, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, run through, rut, sard, schlong, see to, service, shaft, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap
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verb
To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, dated
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verb
To study.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: usually
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verb
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
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verb
To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
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verb
To apprehend, steal.
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Usage: slang, transitive
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verb
To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, carpentry, construction, geography, manufacturing, masonry, natural-sciences, surveying
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adjective satellite
consisting of or made up of bone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
a shade of white the color of bleached bones
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ivory, pearl, off-white
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Broader terms: white, whiteness
noun
rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: os
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Broader terms: connective tissue
Narrower terms: furcula, splint bone, pastern, fetter bone, cannon bone, fishbone, anklebone, astragal, astragalus, talus, bare bone, cuboid bone, carpal bone, carpal, wrist bone, cartilage bone, centrum, cheekbone, zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum, clavicle, collarbone, coccyx, tail bone, dentine, dentin, ethmoid, ethmoid bone, heelbone, calcaneus, os tarsi fibulare, hipbone, innominate bone, hyoid, hyoid bone, os hyoideum, ilium, ischium, ischial bone, os ischii, long bone, os longum, ramus, membrane bone, metacarpal, metacarpal bone, metatarsal, nasal, nasal bone, os nasale, ossicle, bonelet, ossiculum, palatine, palatine bone, os palatinum, phalanx, pubis, pubic bone, os pubis, rib, costa, round bone, sacrum, scapula, shoulder blade, shoulder bone, sesamoid bone, sesamoid, os sesamoideum, short bone, os breve, sphenoid bone, sphenoid, os sphenoidale, sternum, breastbone, gladiolus, corpus sternum, manubrium, xiphoid process, tarsal, tarsal bone, temporal bone, os temporale, tooth, turbinate bone, turbinate, turbinal, tympanic bone, vertebra, zygoma, zygomatic arch, arcus zygomaticus, modiolus, lacrimal bone, skull, calvaria, skullcap, cranium, braincase, brainpan, occiput, sinciput, jaw, vomer, Wormian bone, sutural bone, marrowbone
noun
the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: osseous tissue
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Broader terms: animal material
verb
remove the bones from
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: debone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
verb
study intensively, as before an exam
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: study, hit the books
History
From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bheyh2- (“to hit, strike, beat”). Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bian, Biin, biinj (“bone; leg”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Icelandic bein (“bone; leg”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.
Clipping of trombone.
A reinterpretation of its designation B-1 (B-one), which appears to spell bone.
Unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.
Borrowed from French bornoyer (“to look at with one eye, to sight”), from borgne (“one-eyed”).
Across languages
698 source translations are retained for this English entry.
