English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bone (plural bones)
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton , made of bone.
Translations
substance
component of a skeleton
Translations to be checked
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- Breton: askorn m, eskern plural
- Bulgarian: кост f
- Chinese (traditional): 骨頭
- Chinese (simplified): 骨头
- Czech: kost f
- Greek: οστούν, κόκαλο
- Guarani: kangue
- Hebrew: עצם (EH-tzem)
- Icelandic: bein
- Indonesian: tulang
- Japanese: 骨 (ほね , hone)
- Korean: 뼈 (bbyeo)
- Lojban: bongu
- Low Saxon: knaoken, bunken, been
- Manchu: (giranggi )
- Mongolian: яс (yas)
- Persian: استخوان (ostekhan)
- Romanian: os n
- Russian: кость f {kosť}
- kosť f
- Slovene: kost f
- Swedish: ben n
- Tupinambá: kanga (in the body), kangûera (outside the body)
- Vietnamese: xương
- Welsh: asgwrn m
- Yiddish: בּײן (bayn)
Transitive verb
to bone (boning, boned, boned)
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- "They boned the roast before placing it in the oven."
- (vulgar slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- So, did you bone her?
Synonyms
- (remove the bone from): debone
- (have sexual intercourse with): bonk (British), do, fuck, screw, shag (British)
Translations
to remove bones
- Finnish: poistaa luut
- French: désosser
- German: entbeinen
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slang: have sexual intercourse with
Derived terms
See also
- acetabulum
- breastbone
- calcaneus
- capitate bone
- carpal
- cervical vertebra
- clavicle
- coccygeal vertebra
- coccyx
- collarbone
- cranium
- cuboid bone
- distal phalange
- ethmoid bone
- femur
- fibula
- frontal bone
- hamate bone
- hipbone
- humerus
- hyoid bone
- ilium
- incus
- inferior nasal concha
- innominate bone
- intermediate cuneiform bone
- intermediate phalange
- ischium
- jawbone
- kneecap
- lacrimal bone
- lateral cuneiform bone
- lumbar vertebra
- lunate bone
- malleus
- mandible
- maxilla
- medial cuneiform bone
- metacarpal
- metatarsal
- nasal bone
- navicular bone
- occipital bone
- os coxae
- palatine bone
- parietal bone
- patella
- pelvic girdle
- pelvis
- phalanx
- pisiform bone
- proximal phalange
- pubis
- radius
- rib
- sacral vertebra
- sacrum
- scaphoid bone
- scapula
- shinbone
- shoulder blade
- skeleton
- skull
- sphenoid bone
- stapes
- sternum
- talus
- tarsal
- temporal bone
- thoracic vertebra
- tibia
- trapezium
- trapezoid bone
- triquetral bone
- ulna
- vertebra
- vomer bone
- zygomatic bone
- Wikipedia article on bones
- Wikipedia list of bones in the human skeleton
Ido
Adverb
- well. From bona, good.
