{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "boʊn" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/bone.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/bone.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).\nCognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈‎ (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.", "Unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.", "Borrowed from French bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.", "Clipping of trombone" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Alternative_forms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "bane, byen (dialectal)" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates." }, { "mean": "(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone." }, { "mean": "A bone of a fish; a fishbone." }, { "mean": "A bonefish" }, { "mean": "One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone." }, { "mean": "One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music." }, { "mean": "Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace." }, { "mean": "(figurative) The framework of anything." }, { "mean": "An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.\nbone:" }, { "mean": "(US, informal) A dollar." }, { "mean": "(American football, informal) The wishbone formation." }, { "mean": "(slang) An erect penis; a boner." }, { "mean": "(slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice." }, { "mean": "(slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint." }, { "mean": "(figurative) A reward." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.\nSynonyms: debone, unbone" }, { "mean": "To fertilize with bone." }, { "mean": "To put whalebone into." }, { "mean": "(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.\nboning rod" }, { "mean": "(vulgar, slang, usually of a man, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with\nRelated terms: boned, boner" }, { "mean": "(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform \"bone pointing\", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim." }, { "mean": "(usually with \"up\") To study.\nbone up" }, { "mean": "To polish boots to a shiny finish." }, { "mean": "To nag, especially for an unpaid debt." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Appendix:Bones" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Wikipedia list of bones in the human skeleton" } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.\n1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby‎, page 127:“Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned, and who you had boned it from.”\n1915, William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay: as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.\n1936, J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Root of the Boot”, in Songs for the Philologists:But troll's old seat is much the same, And the bone he boned from its owner\n1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 802:Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.\n1846, W. M. Buchanan, A Technological Dictionary‎, page 151:Joiners, &c., bone their work with two straight edges." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(slang) Clipping of trombone." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "대체_양식", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "os (rare)", "(rigid parts of a corset): rib, stay", "(reward): doggy treat" ], "kor": [ "", "", "" ] } } }