Bone | Mean of bone in English Dictionary

/ˈboʊn/

• Noun
• any one of the hard pieces that form the frame (called a skeleton) inside a person's or animal's body
1. He broke a bone in his left arm.
2. The leg bone is connected to the knee bone.
3. He doesn't have a selfish/jealous bone in his body. [=he is not selfish/jealous at all]
4. My bones are aching from working in the garden.
5. My aching bones! [=my body is tired and sore]
6. I'll be glad to have a chance to rest my weary bones.
7. He knew in his bones [=knew in his heart; had a strong feeling] that he was wrong.
8. She felt in her bones [=she sensed very strongly] that nothing had changed.
• the hard material that bones are made of
1. a piece of bone
2. We are all made of flesh and bone.
3. The handle of the knife is made from bone.
• something to argue or complain about with someone
1. I have a bone to pick with you!

• to be very sure and definite about (something)
1. Make no bones about the seriousness of the matter.
2. He made no bones about his plans to cut expenses.
3. Make no bones about it —we will win.
• with the meat removed from the bone or bones
1. The pork is served off the bone.
• with the meat connected to the bone or bones
1. The ham was on the bone.
• to offer (someone) something that is not very important or valuable especially to stop complaints or protests
1. The boss would not let his workers out early for the holiday but threw them a bone by buying lunch.
• very much
1. We were frozen to the bone. [=we were very cold]
2. The threatening look in his eyes chilled me to the bone. [=made me feel very fearful]
• as much as possible
1. The company has cut costs to the bone in an effort to save money.
• Verb
• to remove the bones from (a fish or meat)
1. bone a fish
2. bone a chicken breast
• to try to learn a lot of information quickly for a test, exam, etc.
1. She boned up [=crammed] for the exam.
• to study something again
1. He's going to bone up the night before the test.
2. She boned up on the speech just before giving it.
3. I have to bone up on [=brush up on] my French for my trip.
• extremely or very
1. bone tired/lazy/idle
2. The air is bone dry.
3. a bone-dry desert climate