Bone
noun
A part of the body of animals and humans that forms the structure and supports the body.
She broke her bone when she fell off the bike.
Often appears as...
- break a bone
- bone structure
noun
The hard, white material that bones are made of.
Dogs love to chew on bones.
Often appears as...
- bone china
- dog bone
verb
To remove the bones from meat or fish.
The chef is boning the fish before cooking it.
Often appears as...
- boning a fish
- boning a chicken
verb
To study hard or in detail.
I need to bone up on my Spanish before the trip.
Often appears as...
- bone up on
- bone up for
Usage tips
Informal
verb
To have sexual intercourse.
He's trying to bone her.
Often appears as...
- boning
- boned
Usage tips
Vulgar
Colloquial
noun
A part of the body of animals and humans that forms the structure and supports the body.
She broke her bone when she fell off the bike.
Often appears as...
- break a bone
- bone structure
noun
The hard, white material that bones are made of.
Dogs love to chew on bones.
Often appears as...
- bone china
- dog bone
verb
To remove the bones from meat or fish.
The chef is boning the fish before cooking it.
Often appears as...
- boning a fish
- boning a chicken
verb
To study hard or in detail.
I need to bone up on my Spanish before the trip.
Often appears as...
- bone up on
- bone up for
Usage tips
Informal
verb
To have sexual intercourse.
He's trying to bone her.
Often appears as...
- boning
- boned
Usage tips
Vulgar
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Body Structure
Bone as a structural element, emphasizing its support and protective role for the body.
Athletes consume calcium to strengthen their bones.
Pro Tip 2/2Health Context
Understanding 'bone' involves knowledge of health, injuries, and diseases affecting the skeletal system.
Osteoporosis is a condition where bones become weak.
Pro Tip 1/2Body Structure
Bone as a structural element, emphasizing its support and protective role for the body.
Athletes consume calcium to strengthen their bones.
Pro Tip 2/2Health Context
Understanding 'bone' involves knowledge of health, injuries, and diseases affecting the skeletal system.
Osteoporosis is a condition where bones become weak.
Pro Tip 1/2Body Structure
Bone as a structural element, emphasizing its support and protective role for the body.
Athletes consume calcium to strengthen their bones.
Pro Tip 2/2Health Context
Understanding 'bone' involves knowledge of health, injuries, and diseases affecting the skeletal system.
Osteoporosis is a condition where bones become weak.
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Nizar Ibrahim: How we...
It's a difficult place to work in. You have to deal with sandstorms and snakes and scorpions, and it's very difficult to find good fossils there. But our hard work paid off. We discovered many incredible specimens. There's the largest dinosaur bone that had ever been found in this part of the Sahara.
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What makes muscles grow?...
which pull on the bones in your arm and generate the needed movement. The bigger the challenge becomes, the bigger the brain's signal grows, and the more motor units it rallies to help you achieve your task. But what if the door is made of solid iron? At this point, your arm muscles alone
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How to grow a bone -...
that protects our organs, allows us to move, produces blood cells and more. But this initial building process alone is not enough to make bones strong and functional. If you took a bone built this way, attached muscles to it, and tried to use it to lift a heavy weight,
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What can you learn from...
Stable isotopes in bone collagen and tooth enamel varies among mammals dependent on where they lived and what they ate. So by analyzing these isotopes, we can draw direct inferences regarding the diet and location of historic people. Not only that, but during life,
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The science of skin...
an ingredient that strengthens bones and lets us absorb vital minerals, like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate, and zinc. Without it, humans experience serious fatigue and weakened bones that can cause a condition known as rickets.
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The benefits of good...
If you sit a lot, get up and move around on occassion, and be sure to exercise. Using your muscles will keep them strong enough to support you effectively, on top of all the other benefits to your joints, bones, brain and heart.
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Fossil Found in Kitchen...
bones would be embedded deep in the layers of limestone almost impossible to discover except by chance however they found something else of interest the quarries also contain columns of redstone from a later period after the
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
our computer-aided design okay we need optimization tools this is one that's based on bones and how they how your bone responds to stress and light weights everything else except exactly where it's needed and now that
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Octopus Playtime PIPE...
that's almost as deep as any divide can be between two animals with three hearts no bones a beak with a venomous bite and a gut that runs through its brain to one point of view the octopus is completely alien
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Why do your knuckles...
like hyaluronic acid and lubricin. Synovial fluid is more or less the texture of egg yolk and its primary purpose is to cushion the bones and help them glide past each other. It also contains phagocytic cells
Video examples
Nizar Ibrahim: How we...
It's a difficult place to work in. You have to deal with sandstorms and snakes and scorpions, and it's very difficult to find good fossils there. But our hard work paid off. We discovered many incredible specimens. There's the largest dinosaur bone that had ever been found in this part of the Sahara.
Video examples
What makes muscles grow?...
which pull on the bones in your arm and generate the needed movement. The bigger the challenge becomes, the bigger the brain's signal grows, and the more motor units it rallies to help you achieve your task. But what if the door is made of solid iron? At this point, your arm muscles alone
Video examples
How to grow a bone -...
that protects our organs, allows us to move, produces blood cells and more. But this initial building process alone is not enough to make bones strong and functional. If you took a bone built this way, attached muscles to it, and tried to use it to lift a heavy weight,
Video examples
What can you learn from...
Stable isotopes in bone collagen and tooth enamel varies among mammals dependent on where they lived and what they ate. So by analyzing these isotopes, we can draw direct inferences regarding the diet and location of historic people. Not only that, but during life,
Video examples
The science of skin...
an ingredient that strengthens bones and lets us absorb vital minerals, like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate, and zinc. Without it, humans experience serious fatigue and weakened bones that can cause a condition known as rickets.
Video examples
The benefits of good...
If you sit a lot, get up and move around on occassion, and be sure to exercise. Using your muscles will keep them strong enough to support you effectively, on top of all the other benefits to your joints, bones, brain and heart.
Video examples
Fossil Found in Kitchen...
bones would be embedded deep in the layers of limestone almost impossible to discover except by chance however they found something else of interest the quarries also contain columns of redstone from a later period after the
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
our computer-aided design okay we need optimization tools this is one that's based on bones and how they how your bone responds to stress and light weights everything else except exactly where it's needed and now that
Video examples
Octopus Playtime PIPE...
that's almost as deep as any divide can be between two animals with three hearts no bones a beak with a venomous bite and a gut that runs through its brain to one point of view the octopus is completely alien
Video examples
Why do your knuckles...
like hyaluronic acid and lubricin. Synovial fluid is more or less the texture of egg yolk and its primary purpose is to cushion the bones and help them glide past each other. It also contains phagocytic cells
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Edward Brooke
American Politician
I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
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Wendy Williams
American Entertainer
People love to throw stones at me, and I get it. It's fun to make fun of me, because I put myself out there. I'm a large personality, and I got the funny bone; I voice my opinion, and then people get upset.
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Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.
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Luciana Berger
British Politician
If you walk into A&E with a broken bone you expect it to be fixed. If you need help because you've got a mental health condition you should get that help and support.
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Richard Dormer
Irish Actor
Sometimes you even start to sound like the character because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones.
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Betty Gilpin
American Actress
Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.
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Kelsey Grammer
American Actor
I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her - I could not... It very nearly destroyed me.
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Saswata Chatterjee
Humor is very important as people have forgotten to laugh at themselves these days. They should not lose the funny bones.
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G-Eazy
American Musician
I'll be a Bay kid for the rest of my life. That's in my veins; that's in my bones.
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Redd Foxx
American Actor
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
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Edward Brooke
American Politician
I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
Quote examples
Wendy Williams
American Entertainer
People love to throw stones at me, and I get it. It's fun to make fun of me, because I put myself out there. I'm a large personality, and I got the funny bone; I voice my opinion, and then people get upset.
Quote examples
Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.
Quote examples
Luciana Berger
British Politician
If you walk into A&E with a broken bone you expect it to be fixed. If you need help because you've got a mental health condition you should get that help and support.
Quote examples
Richard Dormer
Irish Actor
Sometimes you even start to sound like the character because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones.
Quote examples
Betty Gilpin
American Actress
Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.
Quote examples
Kelsey Grammer
American Actor
I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her - I could not... It very nearly destroyed me.
Quote examples
Saswata Chatterjee
Humor is very important as people have forgotten to laugh at themselves these days. They should not lose the funny bones.
Quote examples
G-Eazy
American Musician
I'll be a Bay kid for the rest of my life. That's in my veins; that's in my bones.
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Redd Foxx
American Actor
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
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