Meaning of bone in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

• Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

• A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

• A bonefish

• One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

• One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

• Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

• The framework of anything.

• An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

• A dollar.

• The wishbone formation.

• An erect penis; a boner.

• (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

verb

• To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

• To fertilize with bone.

• To put whalebone into.

  Example: to bone stays

• To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

  Example: boning rod

• (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

• (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

• (usually with "up") To study.

  Example: bone up

• To polish boots to a shiny finish.

adjective

• Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

verb

• To apprehend, steal.

verb

• To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

noun

• A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).

  Example: Jim plays the trombone very well.

• The common European bittern.