Stone

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Contents 1 Construction and building 2 Geology 3 People 4 Games 5 Books and comics 6 Film and television 7 Music 8 Places 9 Units of measure 10 Other uses 11 Other disambig 12 Related terms

Stone may refer to:

[edit] Construction and building

• Masonry, the building of structures from stone
• Coade stone, a special form of vitreous stoneware, used for monumental work and architectural decoration
• Standing stone, a solitary stone set vertically into the ground

See also: list of stone for the types of stone used in sculpture and construction

[edit] Geology

• Rock (geology), a naturally occurring aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids, or an individual piece of rock
• Marble, a metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone

See also: List of rock types

[edit] People

• Stone (surname)

[edit] Games

• Stones (video game), a game developed by Michael C. Miller and released in 1991 as part of Microsoft's Windows Entertainment Pack
• The Stone (game), an internet/online game
• Stones are objects that are played in Go.

[edit] Books and comics

• Stone Soup, the classic fable
• Stone (novel), a science fiction novel by Adam Roberts
• Stone trilogy, a novel series by Graham Edwards
• Stone (Marvel Comics), several characters in the Marvel Comics universe
• Stones, a young adult novel by William E. Bell

[edit] Film and television

• Stone (film), a 1974 Australian action-adventure
• The Stones (TV series), an American sitcom
• Piedras (film) (Stones), a 2002 Spanish film
• Stone Phillips, a television news anchor
• Oliver Stone, American film director and screenwriter

[edit] Music

• Stone (band), a Finnish thrash metal band
• The Stone (band), a Serbian black metal band
• The Stones (New Zealand band), a New Zealand rock band
• The Rolling Stones, a British rock and roll band, often called "the Stones"
• "Stones" (song), a song popular in the Ultima RPG universe
• Stones (Neil Diamond album)
• Stones (Dan Seals album)
• "The Stone" (Ashes Divide song)
• "Stone," a song by the Small Faces on the album First Step
• The Stone (Dave Matthews Band song)

[edit] Places

England

• Stone, Buckinghamshire
• Stone, Kent
• Stone, Staffordshire
• Stone, Gloucestershire

United States

• Stone, Kentucky

[edit] Units of measure

• Stone (mass), a unit of mass which since the latter half of the twentieth century has been equal to fourteen pounds
• Stone (Chinese weight), a Chinese unit of weight equal to 120 piculs or 160 pounds

[edit] Other uses

• Stone (software): a proxy & port-forwarder
• Stoning, a method of execution
• Stoneware, a category of clay or ceramic material

[edit] Other disambig

• The Stone
• Stoney

[edit] Related terms

• Calculus (medicine), a stone formed in the body, such as kidney stones or gallstones
• Drupe, the stone of a fruit
• Gemstone, a type of stone used in jewelry
• Iskander, a missile system, SS-26 Stone in NATO reporting code
• Stoner & Stoned: references to drug use
• Stone Brewing Company, a brewery in Escondido, California
• Stone butch

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