bones
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/bəʊnz/
English
Definitions
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
verb
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- To fertilize with bone.
- To put whalebone into.“to bone stays”
- To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.“boning rod”
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 percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.
- The act of two fists meeting together in the manner equivalent to a high-five.
- The framework or foundation of something.
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♭).“Jim plays the trombone very well.”
- The common European bittern.
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