bone
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
Noun 4 meanings
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 this material.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
A bonefish.
Adjective 1 meaning
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Verb 4 meanings
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To fertilize with bone.
To put whalebone into.
To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
Adverb 1 meaning
Used before an adjective as an intensifier
Etymology
From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
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BONE at a glance
BONE has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (B 3 + O 1 + N 1 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,085 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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