stone In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its Chemical compound, chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks ...

is a small piece of rock. Stone may also refer to:

Unit of measurement

Stone (unit) The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) is an English units, English and imperial units, British imperial unit of mass equal to 14 avoirdupois Pound (mass), pounds (6.35 kg). The stone continues in customary use in the United Kingdom ...

, a measure of weight formerly used in various Germanic European countries and still commonly used in Great Britain and Ireland for measuring human body weight *

Stone (Chinese weight) The picul , shi (), dan or tam, is a traditional Asian unit of weight, defined as "as much as a man can carry on a shoulder-pole". Throughout most of Chinese history, it was defined as equivalent to 120 catties. Some later definitions (British ...

Materials and minerals

* Building stone, a

building material Building material is material used for construction. Many naturally occurring substances, such as clay, rocks, sand, wood, and even twigs and leaves, have been used to construct buildings and other structures, like bridges. Apart from natur ...

Dimension stone Dimension stone is natural stone or Rock (geology), rock that has been selected and finished (e.g., trimmed, cut, drilled or ground) to specific sizes or shapes. Color, Texture (geology), texture and pattern, and surface finish of the stone are ...

, stone fabricated to specific sizes or shapes *

Gemstone A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewellery, jewelry or other adornments. Certain Rock (geology), rocks (such ...

, an attractive mineral used for adornments *

Stoneware Stoneware is a broad class of pottery fired at a relatively high temperature, to be impervious to water. A modern definition is a Vitrification#Ceramics, vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay or non-refractory fire ...

, a ceramic ware

Biology

Calculus (medicine) A calculus (: calculi), often called a stone, is a concretion of material, usually mineral salts, that forms in an organ or duct of the body. Formation of calculi is known as lithiasis (). Stones can cause a number of medical conditions. Som ...

, a stone formed in the body, such as kidney stones or gallstones *

Pyrena A pyrena () or pyrene, commonly called a pit or stone, is the fruitstone within a drupe or drupelet produced by the ossification of the endocarp or lining of the fruit. It consists of a hard endocarp tissue surrounding one or more seeds (also ...

, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches and olives

Geography

England

Stone, Buckinghamshire Stone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located southwest of the town of Aylesbury, on the A418 road that links Aylesbury to Thame. Stone with Bis ...

Stone, Gloucestershire Stone is a village in the parish of Ham and Stone, Gloucestershire, England. It stands on the A38 road, just south-west of its crossing of the Little Avon River, halfway between Bristol and Gloucester, adjacent to the county boundary with South ...

* Stone, South Yorkshire *

Stone, Staffordshire Stone is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England; it is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of the county town of Stafford, 7 miles (11 km) south of Stoke-on-Trent and 15 miles (24 km) north of Rugeley. As a notable c ...

Stone (UK Parliament constituency) Stone was a constituency in Staffordshire in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It was represented since its 1997 recreation by Sir Bill Cash, a Conservative. On 9 June 2023, he announced his intention to stand down at the 2024 general ...

in Staffordshire *

Stone, Worcestershire Stone is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England. Of Anglo-Saxon origin, it lies two miles south-east of Kidderminster on the A448 road to Bromsgrove. History Stone (then spelt Stanes) was recorded i ...

* Kent **

Norton, Buckland and Stone Norton, Buckland and Stone is a small rural civil parish east of Teynham and west of the centre of Faversham in the borough of Swale, Kent, England. It is bypassed by the M2 to the south and traverses the historic A2, on the route of the R ...

Stone, Kent Stone, also known as Stone-next-Dartford, is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, about 3 km east of Dartford and 27 kilometres from central London. It lies on the south bank of the River Thames. The A226 road ...

Stone in Oxney Stone in Oxney is a village in the civil parish of Stone-cum-Ebony, in the Ashford district, in the county of Kent, England. It is south of Ashford, near Appledore. The village is south east of Tenterden, on the eastern side of the Isle of ...

United States

* Stone, Kentucky * Stone, Wisconsin * Stone County (disambiguation)

People

Stone (singer) Annie Gautrat, better known by her stage name Stone (born in Paris on 31 July 1947) is a French singer and actress, and very notably part of the musical duo Stone et Charden with her then-husband Éric Charden. the duo were successful in the 1970 ...

, the stage name of French singer and actress Annie Gautrat, solo and part of duo Stone et Charden *

Stone (surname) Stone is a surname that is an anglicization of the Scandinavian name of Sten dating back to Anglo-Saxon. List of people with the surname A * Adam Stone, American professor and political scientist * Alan Stone (disambiguation), several people, ...

, people with the surname Stone *

Stone Forsythe Stone Forsythe (December 29, 1997) is an American professional football offensive tackle for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida Gators. Early life Forsythe was born and grew up ...

(born 1997), American football player *

Stone Garrett Gregory Stone Garrett (born November 22, 1995) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Kiwoom Heroes of the KBO League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Washington Nationals. ...

(born 1995), American baseball player *

Stone Gossard Stone Carpenter Gossard (born July 20, 1966) is an American musician and songwriter who serves as the rhythm guitarist for the rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of the ...

, American rock musician *

Stone Hallquist Stone Conrad Hallquist (April 8, 1902June 1, 1981) was an American football running back, who played for the Milwaukee Badgers in the National Football League. Biography Hallquist was born in Söderholm, Sweden. He went to South Division High ...

(1902–1981), American football running back *

Stone Johnson Stone Edward Johnson (April 26, 1940 — September 8, 1963) was an American sprinter and professional football player. He played as a kick returner and running back for the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League (AFL) during the 19 ...

(1940–1963), Olympic sprinting athlete, American football kick returner and running back *

Stone Librande Stone Librande is an American video game designer at the video game publisher Riot Games. He was the lead designer of '' Diablo III'' at Blizzard Entertainment and creative director of ''SimCity'' at Electronic Arts. Stone is a frequent speake ...

(born 1972), American video game designer at Riot Games *

Stone Phillips Stone Stockton Phillips (born December 2, 1954) is an American television reporter and correspondent on NBC, ABC and PBS. He is best known as the former co-anchor of ''Dateline NBC'', a news magazine TV series. He's also worked as a substitute ...

, American news anchor *

Stone Smartt Stone Cole Smartt (born October 4, 1998) is an American professional football tight end for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Old Dominion Monarchs. Early life Smartt attended Del Oro ...

(born 1998), American football player

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

Stone (manga) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Shinichi Hiromoto. Kodansha released the two '' bound volumes'' of the manga on April 23, 2002, and August 23, 2002, respectively. The manga is licensed for an English-language release in Nor ...

* Dr. Stone, a manga by Riichiro Inagaki

Film and television

* ''Stone'' (1974 film), an Australian action-adventure * ''Stone'' (2010 film), an American drama * ''Stone'' (2012 film), a Russian dramatic thriller * ''Stone'' (TV series), an American crime-drama television series *

Stone Cates Stone Cates is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, ''General Hospital''. Michael Sutton portrayed him from 1993 to 1995 and returned for a guest appearance from September 28 through September 29, 2010 and on August 1, 2017. The character ...

, a character from ''General Hospital'' played by Michael Sutton

Games and sport

Curling stone Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding he ...

, used in the sport of curling *

Stone skipping Stone skipping and stone skimming are the arts of throwing a flat Rock (geology), stone across water in such a way (usually Sidearm (baseball), sidearm) that it bounces off the surface. "Skipping" counts the number of bounces; "skimming" measur ...

* Objects used in the game of Go

Literature

* ''Stone'' (novel), a science fiction novel by Adam Roberts * ''Stone'' trilogy, a novel series by Graham Edwards * ''Stone'' (1971), a novel by

Douglass Wallop John Douglass Wallop III (March 8, 1920 – April 1, 1985) was an American novelist and playwright. Early life John Douglass Wallop III was born on March 8, 1920, in Washington, D.C., to Marjorie (née Ellis) and John Douglass Wallop Jr. His ...

* "Stone", a 1979 short story by

Edward Bryant Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (August 27, 1945 – February 10, 2017) was an American science fiction and horror fiction, horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered New Wave (science fiction), ...

Music

Bands

Stone (Finnish band) Stone is a Finnish thrash metal band formed in Kerava in 1985. They released four albums and one live album during the late 1980s and early 1990s, before disbanding in 1992 to pursue different musical directions. Stone reunited to play a final s ...

, a thrash metal band from Finland *

Stone (British band) Stone, stylised uppercase as STONE, are an English alternative rock band, formed in Liverpool out of The Bohos and consisting of members Fin Power, Elliott Gill, Sarah Surrage, and Alex Smith. After two EPs and a number of singles, the band relea ...

, an English alternative rock band

Albums

* ''Stone'' (Stone album), 1988 * Stone (Baroness album), 2023 * ''Stone'', an album by

Crash Vegas Crash Vegas was a Canadian folk rock band which formed in 1988, and achieved moderate success in the early 1990s. Biography The band was formed by Michelle McAdorey and Greg Keelor of Blue Rodeo in 1988, who were also in a romantic relationsh ...

* ''Stone'', a 1997 EP by

Unbelievable Truth Unbelievable Truth are a British rock band, led by Andy Yorke, with Nigel Powell, Jason Moulster, and Jim Crosskey. Their sound has been described as "slow, melancholy, country-tinged ballads, wrapped in a soft blanket of acoustic guitars ...

Songs

* "Stone" (Alice in Chains song), 2013 * "Stone" (Cyrus song), 2015 * "Stone", by

Prince Alla Keith Lorenzo Blake (born 10 May 1950), better known as Prince Alla (sometimes Prince Allah or Ras Allah) is a Jamaican roots reggae singer whose career began in the 1960s, and has continued with a string of releases into the 2000s. Biography B ...

, 1991 * "Stone", by the Small Faces from ''

First Step First Step may refer to: * ''First Step'' (CNBLUE album), 2011 * ''First Step'' (Faces album), 1970 * First Step (Mount Everest), the first of the Three Steps, prominent rocky steps on the northeast ridge of Mount Everest * RSS ''First Step'', ...

'' * "Stone", by Stereophonics from ''

Pull the Pin ''Pull the Pin'' is the sixth studio album by Welsh rock band Stereophonics, released by V2 in the UK on 12 October 2007. A Stereophonics newsletter released the ''Pull the Pin'' album artwork to subscribers. The cover was also shown to Myspace ...

'' * "Stone", by Kim Wilde from ''

Close Close may refer to: Music * ''Close'' (Kim Wilde album), 1988 * ''Close'' (Marvin Sapp album), 2017 * ''Close'' (Sean Bonniwell album), 1969 * "Close" (Sub Focus song), 2014 * "Close" (Nick Jonas song), 2016 * "Close" (Rae Sremmurd song), 201 ...

'', 1988

Brands and companies

SS-26 Stone The 9K720 Iskander (; NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is a Russian mobile short-range ballistic missile system. It has a range of . It was intended to replace the OTR-21 Tochka in the Russian military by 2020. The Iskander has several differ ...

, a ballistic missile system *

Stone Brewing Company Stone Brewing (formerly Stone Brewing Co.) is a brewery headquartered in Escondido, California, United States. Founded in 1996 in San Marcos, California, San Marcos, it is the largest brewery in Southern California. Based on 2020 sales volume, ...

* Stones Bitter

Other uses

Stone butch A stone butch is a lesbian who displays female butchness or traditional "masculinity" and who does not allow their genitals to be touched during sexual activity, as opposed to a stone femme. Etymology and history The term ''stone butch'' was ...

Stone (curling) Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding h ...

Stoner (drug user) Cannabis culture describes a social atmosphere or series of associated social behaviors that depend heavily upon cannabis consumption, particularly as an entheogen, recreational drug and medicine. Historically, cannabis has been used as an ...

* Stoning (metalworking), using a stone to sharpen metal *

Stoning Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma. It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. Stoning appears t ...

, a form of capital punishment