Calculus vs. Stone

(Medicine) An abnormal concretion in the body, usually formed of mineral salts and found in the gallbladder, kidney, or urinary bladder, for example.

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock.

(Dentistry) See tartar.

Such concreted matter of a particular type. Often used in combination

The branch of mathematics that deals with limits and the differentiation and integration of functions of one or more variables.

A small piece of rock.

A method of analysis or calculation using a special symbolic notation.

A piece of rock that is used in construction

The combined mathematics of differential calculus and integral calculus.

A gravestone or tombstone.

A system or method of calculation

A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone.

Calculation; computation.

A milestone or boundary.

Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.

A gem or precious stone.

Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.

Something, such as a hailstone, resembling a stone in shape or hardness.

A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.

(Botany) The hard covering enclosing the seed in certain fruits, such as the cherry, plum, or peach.

Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.

(Medicine) A mineral concretion in an organ, such as the kidney or gallbladder, or other body part; a calculus.

(countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.

Pl. stone Abbr. st. A unit of weight in Great Britain, 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms).

Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

(Printing) A table with a smooth surface on which page forms are composed.

A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.

Relating to or made of stone

A hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body;

Made of stoneware or earthenware.

An incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums

Complete; utter. Often used in combination

The branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions

Completely; utterly

To hurl or throw stones at, especially to kill with stones.

To remove the stones or pits from.

To furnish, fit, pave, or line with stones.

To rub on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen.

(Sports) To block a shot taken by (an opponent). Used of a goalie.

(Obsolete) To make hard or indifferent.

(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.

A small piece of stone, a pebble.

A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

(British) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight.

(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.

A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.

(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.

(obsolete) A testicle.

A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.

(transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.

(transitive) To wall with stones.

(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

(intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.

To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. Usually in passive

To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.

(transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Constructed of stone.

Having the appearance of stone.

Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

(AAVE) Used as an intensifier.

(LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.

As a stone used with following adjective.

(slang) Absolutely, completely used with following adjectives.

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.

A precious stone; a gem.

Something made of stone. Specifically: -

The glass of a mirror; a mirror.

A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

A monument to the dead; a gravestone.

One of the testes; a testicle.

The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.

Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.

A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; - called also imposing stone.

To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

To make like stone; to harden.

To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter;

Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust;

Building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose;

A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry;

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;

United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)

United States architect (1902-1978)

A lack of feeling or expression or movement;

Kill by throwing stones at;

Remove the pits from;

Of any of various dull tannish-gray colors