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How to pronounce bone
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What does bone mean?
nounA 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 this material.
“No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.”
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
adjOf an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
verbTo prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
“Then it is boned; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.”
To fertilize with bone.
“He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.””
To put whalebone into.
“Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps.”
advUsed before an adjective as an intensifier
“GWF, well almost anyway, 40, bone-lonely, desperately needs a friend in Southern Maine.”
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