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US
/ˈboʊn/
]
[ UK /bˈəʊn/ ]
[ UK /bˈəʊn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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consisting of or made up of bone
a bony substance
the bony framework of the body
VERB
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study intensively, as before an exam
I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam -
remove the bones from
bone the turkey before roasting it
NOUN
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
How To Use bone In A Sentence
- In the receding angle below the chin is the hyoid bone, and the finger can be carried along the bone to the tip of the greater cornu, which is on a level with the angle of the mandible: the greater cornu is most readily appreciated by making pressure on one side, when the cornu of the opposite side will be rendered prominent and can be felt distinctly beneath the skin. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 1. Surface Anatomy of the Head and Neck
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- So no matter how boneheaded an incompetent manager I am, my department is 100% guaranteed to be profitable as long as I'm good at keeping my receipts?
- Both groups had access to cuttlebone and fresh water ad libitum.
- One woman's broken thigh bone had been badly set, leaving her left leg at least three inches shorter than her right.
- Evergreen plants, including dwarf conifers such as hemlocks, junipers, pines, and spruces, can form a backbone to anchor the design of a rock garden.
- It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
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- This is a complex wine that will sparkle as an accompaniment to a tall glass of bone chillingly cold lemon sorbet with sprigs of mint.
- In these patients, we have reinserted the Achilles tendon in the calcaneus with two to five bone anchors, depending on the amount of tendon disinserted.