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What does bone mean?

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Noun
  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.
  3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  4. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  5. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  6. (figuratively) The framework of anything.
  7. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  8. (US, informal) A dollar.
  9. (slang) Dominoes or dice.
Adjective
  1. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Verb
  1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  2. To fertilize with bone.
  3. To put whalebone into.
  4. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
  5. (Aboriginal) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
  6. (usually with "up") To study.
  7. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
Verb
  1. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
Verb
  1. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
Noun
  1. (slang) Clipping of trombone.
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