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Stone


Stone may refer to:

Construction and building


- Masonry, the building of structures from stone
- Coade stone, a special form of vitreous stoneware, used for monumental work and architectural decoration
- Standing stone, a solitary stone set vertically into the ground for the types of stone used in sculpture and construction

Geology


- Rock (geology), a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids, or an individual piece of rock
- Marble, a metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone

Games


- Stones (video game), a game developed by Michael C. Miller and released in 1991 as part of Microsoft's Windows Entertainment Pack
- The Stone (game), an internet/online game

Books and comics


- Stone (novel)|''Stone'' (novel), a science fiction novel by Adam Roberts
- Stone trilogy|''Stone'' trilogy, a novel series by Graham Edwards
- Stone (Marvel Comics), several characters in the Marvel Comics universe
- ''Stones'', a young adult novel by William E. Bell (author)|William E. Bell

Film and television


- Stone (film)|''Stone'' (film), a 1974 Australian action-adventure
- The Stones (TV series)|''The Stones'' (TV series), an American sitcom
- Piedras (film)|''Piedras'' (film) (''Stones''), a 2002 Spanish film
- Stone Phillips, a television news anchor
- Oliver Stone, American film director and screenwriter

Music


- Stone (band), a Finnish thrash metal band
- The Stone (band), a Serbian black metal band
- The Stones (New Zealand band), a New Zealand rock band
- The Rolling Stones, a British rock and roll band, often called "the Stones"
- Stones (song)|"Stones" (song), a song popular in the ''Ultima'' RPG universe
- Stones (Neil Diamond album)|''Stones'' (Neil Diamond album)
- The Stone (Ashes Divide song)|"The Stone" (Ashes Divide song)
- "Stone," a song by the Small Faces on the album ''First Step (album)|First Step''
- The Stone (Dave Matthews Band song)

Places in England


- Stone, Buckinghamshire
- Stone, Kent
- Stone, Staffordshire
- Stone, Gloucestershire

Units of measure


- Stone (mass), a unit of mass which since the latter half of the twentieth century has been equal to fourteen pounds
- Stone (Chinese weight), a Chinese unit of weight equal to 120 piculs or 160 pounds

Other meanings


- Stone butch
- Stone (surname)
- Stoning, a method of execution
- Stoneware, a category of clay or ceramic material
- Stone Brewing Company, a brewery in Escondido, California
- Gemstone, a type of stone used in jewelry
- Calculus (medicine), a stone formed in the body, such as kidney stones or gallstones
- Iskander, a missile system, SS-26 Stone in NATO reporting code
- Drupe, the stone of a fruit
- Stoner Slang term for a person, who uses drugs often.

See also


- Stoned
- Stoney
- The Stone

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