See drystone in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for drystone meaning in English (2.2kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dry",
"3": "stone"
},
"expansion": "dry + stone",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "dry + stone",
"forms": [
{
"form": "drystones",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "drystone (plural drystones)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Geology",
"orig": "en:Geology",
"parents": [
"Earth sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A stalactite or stalagmite."
],
"id": "en-drystone-en-noun-uxPrnb-M",
"links": [
[
"geology",
"geology"
],
[
"stalactite",
"stalactite"
],
[
"stalagmite",
"stalagmite"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(geology) A stalactite or stalagmite."
],
"topics": [
"geography",
"geology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "drystone"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dry",
"3": "stone"
},
"expansion": "dry + stone",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "dry + stone",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "drystone (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "dry-stone"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "51 49",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 440",
"text": "They drove on, every rise in the road lifting their sightline clear of the drystone dykes along the roadside, gifting glimpses of the firth and the islands, the blue peaks of Arran.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 597",
"text": "He had forgotten that on this side there was a drystone wall sheep pen.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of dry-stone"
],
"id": "en-drystone-en-adj-x53LbRXS",
"links": [
[
"dry-stone",
"dry-stone#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"word": "drystone"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncomparable adjectives"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dry",
"3": "stone"
},
"expansion": "dry + stone",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "dry + stone",
"forms": [
{
"form": "drystones",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "drystone (plural drystones)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Geology"
],
"glosses": [
"A stalactite or stalagmite."
],
"links": [
[
"geology",
"geology"
],
[
"stalactite",
"stalactite"
],
[
"stalagmite",
"stalagmite"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(geology) A stalactite or stalagmite."
],
"topics": [
"geography",
"geology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "drystone"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncomparable adjectives"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dry",
"3": "stone"
},
"expansion": "dry + stone",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "dry + stone",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "drystone (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "dry-stone"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 440",
"text": "They drove on, every rise in the road lifting their sightline clear of the drystone dykes along the roadside, gifting glimpses of the firth and the islands, the blue peaks of Arran.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 597",
"text": "He had forgotten that on this side there was a drystone wall sheep pen.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of dry-stone"
],
"links": [
[
"dry-stone",
"dry-stone#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"word": "drystone"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.