English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bəʊn/

Noun

bone (plural bones)

1. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. (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)

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

   "They boned the roast before placing it in the oven."

2. (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

slang: have sexual intercourse with

Derived terms

• bone marrow
• bone structure
• boner
• bony
• debone

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

1. well. From bona, good.