stone

石

地面や土の中にある、小さく硬い岩のかけら。

やさしい英語で： A small, hard piece of rock found on or in the ground.

• There is a stone in my shoe.
• She threw stones into the river.
• He picked up a smooth stone from the beach.

類義語： rock, pebble

よく使う表現： throw a stone, small stone, smooth stone

石、石材

壁や家などの建築に使う、自然の硬い材料。

やさしい英語で： Hard natural material used to build walls, houses, and other structures.

• The walls are made of stone.
• They built the bridge from local stone.
• The artist carved a face in the stone.

類義語： rock

よく使う表現： made of stone, carved in stone, natural stone

種、核

桃やサクランボなどの中心にある、種子を包む硬い部分。

やさしい英語で： The hard part in the middle of fruits such as peaches and cherries that contains the seed.

• Remove the stone from the peach.
• These plums have large stones.
• She planted an apricot stone in a pot.

類義語： pit

よく使う表現： peach stone, cherry stone, remove the stone

石造りの、石の

硬い石を材料にして作られている。

やさしい英語で： Made from hard rock material.

• We crossed a stone bridge.
• The cottage has stone walls.
• She sat on the cold stone steps.

類義語： stonen

よく使う表現： stone wall, stone bridge, stone floor

石のような

色や質感、形が石に似ている。

やさしい英語で： Looking like rock in color, texture, or shape.

• The plastic panel has a stone finish.
• We chose a stone effect for the painted wall.
• The ceramic pot has a stone appearance.

類義語： stonelike

よく使う表現： stone finish, stone effect, stone appearance

完全に、すっかり

完全な状態を強調する。特に冷たさや耳が聞こえないことに使う。

やさしい英語で： Completely, especially when describing something cold or someone unable to hear.

• My coffee is stone cold.
• Her grandfather is stone deaf.
• By morning, the fire was stone dead.

類義語： completely, totally

よく使う表現： stone cold, stone deaf, stone dead, stone crazy

石を投げつける、石打ちにする

人や物に石を投げつける。人を殺す目的の場合もある。

やさしい英語で： To throw rocks at someone or something, sometimes to kill a person.

• The crowd tried to stone him.
• They stoned the building and broke its windows.
• The prisoner was stoned to death.

使い方： stone someone to death (The mob threatened to stone the man to death.)

類義語： pelt with rocks

よく使う表現： stone someone, stone to death, stone a building

元の資料には、この動詞の使える意味説明がない。

やさしい英語で： The source does not provide a usable meaning for this verb.