Bone vs. Debone: What's the Difference?

Bone and Debone Definitions
Bone
The dense, semirigid, porous, calcified connective tissue forming the major portion of the skeleton of most vertebrates. It consists of a dense organic matrix and an inorganic, mineral component.
Debone
To remove the bones from
Debone a chicken breast.
Bone
Any of numerous anatomically distinct structures making up the skeleton of a vertebrate animal. There are more than 200 different bones in the human body.
Debone
(ambitransitive) To remove the bones from.
I am deboning a fish.
Bone
A piece of bone.
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Debone
Remove the bones from;
Bone the turkey before roasting it
Bone
The skeleton.
Bone
The body
These old bones don't do much dancing anymore.
Bone
Mortal remains
His bones are buried up on the hill.
Bone
An animal structure or material, such as ivory, resembling bone.
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Bone
A piece of whalebone or similar material used as a corset stay.
Bone
Bones(Informal) Dice.
Bone
Bones The fundamental plan or design, as of the plot of a book.
Bone
Bones Flat clappers made of bone or wood originally used by the end man in a minstrel show.
Bone
Bones (used with a sing. verb) The end man in a minstrel show.
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Bone
Vulgar Slang The penis.
Bone
To remove the bones from
Bone a fish.
Bone
To stiffen (a piece of clothing) with stays, as of whalebone.
Bone
Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with. Used especially of a man.
Bone
Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse.
Bone
(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
Bone
(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
Bone
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
Bone
A bonefish.
Bone
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
Bone
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
Bone
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
Bone
(figurative) The framework of anything.
Bone
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Bone
A dollar.
Bone
The wishbone formation.
Bone
(slang) An erect penis; a boner.
Bone
A domino or dice.
Bone
(slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
Bone
(figurative) A reward.
Bone
(slang) trombone
Bone
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Bone
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
Bone
To fertilize with bone.
Bone
To put whalebone into.
Bone
(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
Boning rod
Bone
To have sexual intercourse (with).
Bone
To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
Bone
(usually with "up") To study.
Bone up
Bone
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
Bone
To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
Bone
To apprehend, steal.
Bone
To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
Bone
The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
Bone
One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
Bone
Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
Bone
Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
Bone
Dice.
Bone
Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
Bone
Fig.: The framework of anything.
Bone
To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
Bone
To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
Bone
To fertilize with bone.
Bone
To steal; to take possession of.
Bone
To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.
Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W.
Bone
Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
Bone
The porous calcified substance from which bones are made
Bone
A shade of white the color of bleached bones
Bone
Study intensively, as before an exam;
I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam
Bone
Remove the bones from;
Bone the turkey before roasting it
Bone
Consisting of or made up of bone;
A bony substance
The bony framework of the body