bone

  • 41bone — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ delicate, fine ▪ the delicate bones of her face ▪ healthy, strong ▪ brittle, fragile …

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  • 42bone — noun 1》 any of the pieces of hard, whitish tissue making up the skeleton in vertebrates.     ↘(one s bones) one s body. 2》 the calcified material of which bones consist.     ↘a thing made of a substance resembling bone, e.g. a strip of stiffening …

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  • 43bone up — verb study intensively, as before an exam I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam • Syn: ↑cram, ↑grind away, ↑drum, ↑swot, ↑get up, ↑mug up, ↑swot up, ↑bone …

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  • 44bone — [[t]boʊn[/t]] n. v. boned, bon•ing, adv. 1) anat. zool. a) one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate b) anat. the hard connective tissue forming these structures, composed of cells enclosed in a calcified matrix 2) such a… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 45bone —    1. obsolete    to steal    Bone may mean a finger, which has overtones of stealing, as in finger blight, or there could be an allusion to the ossivorous habits of canines:     From her grave in Mary bone They ve come and boned poor Mary. (Hood …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 46bone*/*/ — [bəʊn] noun I 1) [C] one of the hard parts that form the frame inside your body She fell and broke a bone in her foot.[/ex] 2) [U] the substance that bones are made of • a bone of contention a subject that people disagree about[/ex] The main bone …

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  • 47bone — 1) the hard connective tissue consisting of cells (osteoblasts, osteocytes) in a mixture of collagen fibres and hardened by calcium and phosphate salts (calcium hydroxyapatite), serving to support the body. The cells are lost eventually leaving… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 48bone — Synonyms and related words: adamant, aitchbone, anklebone, anvil, backbone, bill, biscuit, bony, breastbone, brick, buck, calcaneus, cannon bone, carpal, cartilage, cement, chine, clavicle, coccyx, collarbone, con, concrete, contemplate, cracker …

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  • 49bone — n. the hard extremely dense connective tissue that forms the skeleton of the body. It is composed of a matrix of collagen fibres impregnated with bone salts (chiefly calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate; see hydroxyapatite), in which are… …

    The new mediacal dictionary

  • 50bonė — 1 ×bonė̃ (l. bania, rus. бaня) sf. (4), bõnė (2) 1. iš šiaudų pintas kubilas, bamblė: Mūsų bonė suiro, ir dabar neturim kur miltų pilt Rs. Didelę bõnę priplėšysme plunksnų Bsg. 2. ąsotis smaugtu kaklu: Bonė̃ yra puodas su kaklu, kaip plėčkos J …

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