stone vs building material

building material vs stone

stone and building material both are nouns.

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

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

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

As nouns, building material is a hypernym of stone; that is, building material is a word with a broader meaning than stone:

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

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

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

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

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