Tra từ bone - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

bone [bone bones boned boning] noun, verb BrE [bəʊn] NAmE [boʊn]
noun
1. countable any of the hard parts that form the ↑skeleton of the body of a human or an animal
• He survived the accident with no broken bones.
• This fish has a lot of bones in it.
•The dog was gnawing at a bone.
•She had a beautiful face with very good bone structure.
2. uncountable the hard substance that bones are made of
•knives with bone handles
3. -boned (in adjectives)having bones of the type mentioned
•fine-boned
more at a bag of bones at ↑bag _n., the bare bones at ↑bare _adj., feel in your bones at ↑feel _v., work your fingers to the bone at ↑finger _n., put flesh on (the bones of) sth at ↑flesh _n., skin and bone at ↑skin _n.

Word Origin:
Old English bān, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch been and German Bein.

Example Bank:
•He's all skin and bone after his illness.
•Her eyes were black in a face the colour of bleached bones.
•She was diagnosed as having brittle bones.
•The black and white photographs emphasized her fine bone structure.
•The shock jarred every bone in his body.
•a bone marrow transplant
•the delicate bones of her face
Idioms: ↑bone of contention ▪ ↑close to the bone ▪ cut/pare something to the bone ▪ ↑have a bone to pick with somebody ▪ ↑make no bones about something ▪ ↑not have a … bone in your body ▪ ↑the bone ▪ ↑throw somebody a bone
Derived: ↑bone up on something

verb ~ sth
to take the bones out of fish or meat
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English bān, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch been and German Bein.