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bone

The correct spelling is bone.

How to pronounce bone

/bəʉn/
noun

IPA: /bəʉn/

Say it like: Bon-e

The correct spelling is bone. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. For example: "to bone stays"

Usage Examples

to bone stays

boning rod

bone up

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  2. 2.Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  3. 3.A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  4. 4.A bonefish
  5. 5.One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

verb

  1. 1.To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  2. 2.To fertilize with bone.
  3. 3.To put whalebone into.
  4. 4.To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
  5. 5.(usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

adjective

  1. 1.Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

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