building material vs stone

stone vs building material

building material and stone both are nouns.

building material is not an adjective while stone is an adjective.

building material is not a verb while stone is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
building material	Yes	No	No	No
stone	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As nouns, stone is a hyponym of building material; that is, stone is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than building material:

building material: material used for constructing buildings
stone: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose

Other hyponyms of building material include brick, building block, bricks and mortar, cement, concrete, covering material, fencing, fencing material, flooring, gunite, insulant, insulation, lath and plaster, lumber, timber, mortar, roofing material, shake, shingle, siding, staff, sticks and stone, wattle and daub.

building material (noun)	stone (noun)
material used for constructing buildings	building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
	a lack of feeling or expression or movement
	a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
	the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
	an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds
	material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
	a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry

building material (adjective)	stone (adjective)
	of any of various dull tannish or grey colors

building material (verb)	stone (verb)
	remove the pits from
	kill by throwing stones at

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