Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BONE

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Definitions of BONE

1. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
2. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
3. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
4. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
5. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
6. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
7. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
8. To fertilize with bone.
9. To put whalebone into.
10. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
11. A bonefish.
12. To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
13. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
14. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
15. (figurative) The framework of anything.
16. (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
17. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
18. (slang, mostly, in the plural) A domino or dice.
19. (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
20. (figurative) A reward.
21. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
22. (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
23. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
24. (usually with "up") To study.
25. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
26. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
27. (slang) Clipping of trombone.
28. A surname.
29. A unincorporated community in Bonneville County, Idaho, USA, named after Orion Jost Bone.
30. (US, informal, plural) A dollar.

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Examples of Using BONE in a Sentence

• As a tyrannosaurid, Albertosaurus was a bipedal predator with short arms, two-fingered hands, and a massive head with dozens of large, sharp teeth, a strong sense of smell, powerful binocular vision, and a bone crushing bite force.
• A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing.
• Bone tissue (osseous tissue), which is also called bone in the uncountable sense of that word, is hard tissue, a type of specialised connective tissue.
• They can be contrasted with the Osteichthyes or bony fish, which have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.
• Symptoms may include: goiter, poor length growth in infants, reduced adult stature, thickened skin, hair loss, enlarged tongue, a protruding abdomen, delayed bone maturation and puberty in children, mental deterioration, neurological impairment, impeded ovulation, and infertility in adults.
• This includes bone and joint infections, intra-abdominal infections, certain types of infectious diarrhea, respiratory tract infections, skin infections, typhoid fever, and urinary tract infections, among others.
• Ectopic calcification, a pathologic deposition of calcium salts in tissues or bone growth in soft tissues.
• The guitarist may employ any of several methods for sounding the guitar, including finger-picking, depending on the type of strings used (either nylon or steel), and including strumming with the fingers, or a guitar pick made of bone, horn, plastic, metal, felt, leather, or paper, and melodic flatpicking and finger-picking.
• Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) reside in the medulla of the bone (bone marrow) and have the unique ability to give rise to all of the different mature blood cell types and tissues.
• International Myeloma Foundation, a non-profit serving patients with a cancer of plasma cells in the bone marrow.
• Originally made of wood, bone, and stone (such as flint and obsidian), over the centuries, in step with improvements in both metallurgy and manufacturing, knife blades have been made from copper, bronze, iron, steel, ceramic, and titanium.
• Periodontal ligament: a group of fibers that attach the cementum of teeth to the surrounding alveolar bone.
• Leukemias and lymphomas both belong to a broader group of tumors that affect the blood, bone marrow, and lymphoid system, known as tumors of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues.
• Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disorder characterized by low bone mass, micro-architectural deterioration of bone tissue leading to more porous bone, and consequent increase in fracture risk.
• Complications may include bone deformities, bone pseudofractures and fractures, muscle spasms, or an abnormally curved spine.
• The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as bone, flint, obsidian, copper, bronze, iron, or steel.
• Early human tools, made of such materials as stone, bone, and wood, were used for the preparation of food, hunting, the manufacture of weapons, and the working of materials to produce clothing and useful artifacts and crafts such as pottery, along with the construction of housing, businesses, infrastructure, and transportation.
• In humans, testosterone plays a key role in the development of male reproductive tissues such as testicles and prostate, as well as promoting secondary sexual characteristics such as increased muscle and bone mass, and the growth of body hair.
• The mine was once a bone of contention between Prussia on the one side and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (later Belgium) on the other, that resulted in a piece of land that became the territory of Neutral Moresnet.
• The walrus has played a prominent role in the cultures of many indigenous Arctic peoples, who have hunted it for meat, fat, skin, tusks, and bone.
• Common side effects include hair loss, bone marrow suppression, numbness, allergic reactions, muscle pains, and diarrhea.
• Nearly every region in Japan has its own variation of ramen, such as the tonkotsu (pork bone broth) ramen of Kyushu and the miso ramen of Hokkaido.
• A mace typically consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, featuring a head made of stone, bone, copper, bronze, iron, or steel.
• There are no contemporaneous records of the Xia, who are not mentioned in the oldest Chinese texts, since the earliest oracle bone inscriptions date from the Late Shang period (13th century BC).
• The bone is named for Atlas of Greek mythology, just as Atlas bore the weight of the heavens, the first cervical vertebra supports the head.

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