Meaning

11 senses
  1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

    entbeinen, ausbeinen

    снима́ть мясо с костейsnimátʹ mjaso s kostej

  2. To fertilize with bone.

  3. To put whalebone into.

  4. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

    boning rod

  5. (ambitransitive, slang, usually, vulgar)To have sexual intercourse (with).

    ficken, bumsen, vögeln

  6. (Australia, dated)To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

  7. (usually)To study.

    bone up

    study intensively, as before an exam

  8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.

  9. To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.

  10. (slang, transitive)To apprehend, steal.

  11. To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Examples

459 sentences
  1. Have you ever broken a bone?

    У тебе колись був перелом? — deniko

    ruУ тебя был когда-нибудь перелом кости? — Lenin_1917

    deHast du dir schon einmal einen Knochen gebrochen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom gave his dog a bone.

    Том дав своєму собаці кість. — deniko

    ruТом дал своему псу кость. — Wezzel

    deTom gab seinem Hund einen Knochen. — pullnosemans

  3. Tom is all skin and bones.

    Том - сама шкіра та кості. — deniko

    ruТом чисто кожа да кости. — Ooneykcall

    deTom ist nur Haut und Knochen. — mhr

  4. Tom gave a bone to his dog.

    Том дав своєму собаці кість. — deniko

    ruТом дал своему псу кость. — Wezzel

  5. I don't like to eat fish with many bones.

    Я не люблю їсти костисту рибу. — deniko

    ruНе люблю есть костистую рыбу. — odexed

    deIch esse nicht gern Fische, die viele Gräten haben. — Manfredo

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to remove bones:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to remove bones:
slang: have sexual intercourse with:

Origin

From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Pro

From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).

Unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

Borrowed from French bornoyer (“to look at with one eye, to sight”), from borgne (“one-eyed”).

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Forms

bones, boning, boned, boned
Base formbone · to bone
3rd person singularbones
Present participleboning
Past simpleboned
Past participleboned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybone
he, she, itbones

Past simpleLesson

all personsboned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave boned
he, she, ithas boned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bone

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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