stone vs millstone
millstone vs stonestone and millstone both are nouns.
stone is an adjective but millstone is not an adjective.
stone is a verb but millstone is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stone | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| millstone | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
millstone is a hyponym of
stone; that is, millstone is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
stone:
- stone: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose
- millstone: one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain
Other hyponyms of stone include
ashlar, capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher, cornerstone, cornerstone, foundation stone, gravestone, headstone, tombstone, grindstone, hearthstone, monolith, paving stone, impost, springer, stela, stele, whetstone.
| stone (noun) | millstone (noun) |
|---|---|
| building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose | one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain |
| a lack of feeling or expression or movement | any load that is difficult to carry |
| a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps |
| 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) | millstone (adjective) |
|---|---|
| of any of various dull tannish or grey colors |
| stone (verb) | millstone (verb) |
|---|---|
| remove the pits from | |
| kill by throwing stones at |
Words related to "stone"
- Blarney Stone
- Britain
- Great Britain
- U.K.
- UK
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- achondrite
- aphanite
- ashlar
- avoirdupois unit
- bedrock
- boulder
- bowlder
- building material
- cabochon
- calc-tufa
- calculus
- caliche
- capstone
- cherry stone
- chilliness
- chondrite
- chromatic
- clastic rock
- claystone
- coldness
- concretion
- conglomerate
- coolness
- copestone
- coping stone
- cornerstone
- crushed rock
- crystal
- crystallization
- dolomite
- emery rock
- emery stone
- endocarp
- fieldstone
- foundation stone
- frigidity
- frigidness
- gem
- gemstone
- gravel
- gravestone
- greisen
- grindstone
- headstone
- hearthstone
- iciness
- igneous rock
- impost
- intrusion
- jewellery
- jewelry
- kill
- lapidate
- lb
- limestone
- magma
- marble
- material
- matrix
- metamorphic rock
- millstone
- mineral
- monolith
- natural object
- opaque gem
- outcrop
- outcropping
- paving stone
- peach pit
- pebble
- pericarp
- petrifaction
- pit
- pound
- pudding stone
- pumice
- pumice stone
- quarter
- quartzite
- remove
- road metal
- rock
- rock outcrop
- sedimentary rock
- seed vessel
- semi-precious stone
- shingling
- sial
- sill
- sima
- springer
- stela
- stele
- stepping stone
- stoner
- stoning
- stony
- stretcher
- stuff
- take
- take away
- tombstone
- tor
- transparent gem
- tufa
- wall rock
- whetstone
- whin
- whinstone
- withdraw
- xenolith
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