Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bone. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bone.
Definitions and meaning of bone
bone
Pronunciation
(General American) enPR: bōn, IPA(key): /ˈboʊn/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊn/
(General Australian) IPA(key): /bəʉn/
(General New Zealand) IPA(key): /bɐʉn/
Rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishbon, from Old Englishbān(“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic*bainą(“bone”), from *bainaz(“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰeyh₂-(“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scotsbane, been, bean, bein, bain(“bone”), North Frisianbien(“bone”), West Frisianbien(“bone”), Dutchbeen(“bone; leg”), German Low GermanBeen, Bein(“bone”), GermanBein(“leg”), GermanGebein(“bones”), Swedishben(“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandicbein(“bone”), Bretonbenañ(“to cut, hew”), Latinperfinēs(“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norsebeinn(“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle Englishbain, bayne, bayn, beyn(“direct, prompt”), Scotsbein, bien(“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandicbeinn(“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegianbein(“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.
Alternative forms
bane, byen (dialectal)
Noun
bone (countable and uncountable, pluralbones)
(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.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
A bonefish
2019: "Tres Bocas" by Scott Sadil, California Fly Fisher
The reason I rarely fish for Mag Bay bones with a 5-weight or 6-weight is the number of fish that can turn light stuff inside out.
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
(figuratively) The framework of anything.
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
(US, informal) A dollar.
(American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
(slang) An erect penis; a boner.
(slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
Synonyms
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(rigid parts of a corset):rib, stay
Translations
See bone/translations § Noun.
Adjective
bone (not comparable)
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Verb
bone (third-person singular simple presentbones, present participleboning, simple past and past participleboned)
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To fertilize with bone.
To put whalebone into.
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(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
(vulgar, slang, usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
(usually with "up") To study.
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
Synonyms
(remove the bone from):debone, unbone
(vulgar, have sexual intercourse with):bury the bone, bonk(British), fuck, screw, shag(British); see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with
Translations
Derived terms
See also
Appendix:Bones
Further reading
Wikipedia list of bones in the human skeleton
Etymology 2
Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.
Verb
bone (third-person singular simple presentbones, present participleboning, simple past and past participleboned)
(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Frenchbornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.
Verb
bone (third-person singular simple presentbones, present participleboning, simple past and past participleboned)
(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
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Etymology 4
Clipping of trombone
Noun
bone (pluralbones)
(slang)Clipping of trombone.
Anagrams
Beno, Boen, ebon
Afrikaans
Noun
bone
plural of boon
Danish
Etymology 1
From Low German and Middle Low Germanbōnen, from Old Saxon*bōnian, from Proto-West Germanic*bōnijan(“to polish”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈb̥oːnə]
Verb
bone (imperativebon, infinitiveat bone, present tenseboner, past tensebonede, perfect tensehar bonet)
to polish
Etymology 2
Derived from the noun bon(“receipt”), from Frenchbon(“voucher, ticket”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋə]
Verb
bone (imperativebon, infinitiveat bone, present tenseboner, past tensebonede, perfect tensehar bonet)