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| bone | |
| 1. s. Hueso | |
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| bone | |
| 1. s. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. |  |
| 2. s. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. | |
| 3. s. A bone of a fish; a fishbone. | |
| 4. s. A bonefish | |
| 5. s. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone. | |
| 6. s. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music. | |
| 7. s. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. | |
| 8. s. (figurative) The framework of anything. | |
| 9. s. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone. | |
| (color panel, E4D4BA) | |
| 10. s. (US, informal) A dollar. | |
| 11. s. (slang) An erect penis; a boner. | |
| 12. s. (slang) A domino or dice. | |
| 13. adj. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone. | |
| 14. v. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. | |
| 15. v. To fertilize with bone. | |
| 16. v. To put whalebone into. | |
| to bone stays | |
| 17. v. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line. | |
| boning rod | |
| 18. v. (vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with. | |
| 19. v. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim. | |
| 20. v. (usually with "up") To study. | |
| bone up | |
| 21. v. To polish boots to a shiny finish. | |
| 22. v. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal. | |
| 23. v. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line. | |
| 24. s. (slang) (clipping of trombone) | |
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| hueso | |
| 1. n-m. (anatomy) bone | |
| El perro enterró un hueso. - The dog buried a bone. | |
| Los adultos tienen 206 huesos. - Adults have 206 bones. | |
| 2. n-m. (botany) stone, pit (the central part of some fruits, consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer (like those of peach, olive, avocado or mango)) | |
| 3. n-m. (politics, Mexico, slang) political position (appointed or elected) | |
| 4. n-m. (Spain, informal) strict person | |
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