Stoning – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
stoning
n.
form of punishment in which stones are thrown at the condemned until he is dead
stone
v.
put to death by pelting with stones, pelt with stones; fit or pave with stones; remove stones or pits from fruit
Stoning
Stoning, or
lapidation, is a method of
capital punishment whereby a group throws
stones at a person until he or she dies. No individual among the group can be identified as the one who kills the subject. This is in contrast to the case of a judicial
executioner. Slower than other forms of execution, stoning within the context of
Modernism or contemporary
Western Culture, is considered a form of
execution by torture.
stoning
Noun
1. pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)
(synonym) lapidation
(hypernym) corporal punishment
(derivation) stone, lapidate
stone
Noun
1. a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"
(synonym) rock
(hypernym) natural object
(hyponym) achondrite
(derivation) lapidate
2. material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
(synonym) rock
(hypernym) material, stuff
(hyponym) quartzite
(substance-meronym) mineral
(derivation) lapidate
3. building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
(hypernym) building material
(hyponym) ashlar
4. a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
(synonym) gem, gemstone
(hypernym) crystal
(hyponym) cabochon
(part-holonym) jewelry, jewellery
5. the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
(synonym) pit, endocarp
(hypernym) pericarp, seed vessel
(hyponym) peach pit
(derivation) pit
6. an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
(hypernym) avoirdupois unit
(part-holonym) quarter
(part-meronym) pound, lb
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7. a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
(hypernym) coldness, coolness, frigidity
Verb
1. kill by throwing stones at; "Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran"
(synonym) lapidate
(hypernym) kill
(derivation) rock
2. remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries"
(synonym) pit
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(derivation) pit, endocarp
Adjective
1. of any of various dull tannish-gray colors
(similar) chromatic
stone
Czas.
kamienować
Stoning
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Stone
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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