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Bone

bəʊn

Bone definitions

noun

Inflections:

bone bones

any of the pieces of hard whitish tissue making up the skeleton in humans and other vertebrates

"his injuries included many broken bones"
- one's body
  
  "he hauled his tired bones upright"
- a corpse or skeleton
  
  "the discovery of the bones of Richard III"
- a bone of an animal with meat on it fed to a dog
  
  "dogs yelping over a bone"
the calcified material of which bones consist

"an earring of bone"
- a substance similar to bone, such as ivory or whalebone
- a thing made or formerly made of bone, such as a strip of stiffening for a foundation garment
- (in southern Africa) one of a set of carved dice or bones used by traditional healers in divination
the basic or essential framework of something

"you need to put some flesh on the bones of your idea"

verb

Inflections:

bone boned bones boning

remove the bones from (meat or fish) before cooking, serving, or selling

"ask your butcher to bone the turkey for you"
study (a subject) intensively, typically in preparation for something

"she boned up on languages she had learned long ago"

Synonyms:
go over reread run through study memorize
have sex with (someone)