The difference between Bone and Unbone

When used as verbs, bone means to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from, whereas unbone means to deprive of bones, as meat.


Bone is also noun with the meaning: a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

Bone is also adjective with the meaning: of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bone and Unbone

  1. Bone as a noun (uncountable):

    A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

  2. Bone as a noun (countable):

    Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

  3. Bone as a noun:

    A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

  4. Bone as a noun:

    A bonefish

  5. Bone as a noun:

    One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

  6. Bone as a noun:

    One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

  7. Bone as a noun:

    Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

  8. Bone as a noun (figurative):

    The framework of anything.

  9. Bone as a noun:

    An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

    Examples:

    "color paneE4D4BA"

  10. Bone as a noun (US, informal):

    A dollar.

  11. Bone as a noun (American football, informal):

    The wishbone formation.

  12. Bone as a noun (slang):

    An erect penis; a boner.

  13. Bone as a noun (slang, mostly, plural):

    A domino or dice.

  1. Bone as an adjective:

    Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

  1. Bone as a verb:

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

  2. Bone as a verb:

    To fertilize with bone.

  3. Bone as a verb:

    To put whalebone into.

    Examples:

    "to bone stays"

    "rfquotek Ash"

  4. Bone as a verb (civil engineering):

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

    Examples:

    "[[boning rod]]"

  5. Bone as a verb (vulgar, slang, usually of a man):

    To have sexual intercourse with.

  6. Bone as a verb (Australia, dated, in [[Aboriginal]] culture):

    To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

  7. Bone as a verb (usually with "up"):

    To study.

    Examples:

    "[[bone up]]"

  8. Bone as a verb:

    To polish boots to a shiny finish.

  1. Bone as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To apprehend, steal.

  1. Bone as a verb (carpentry, masonry, surveying):

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

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  1. Bone as a noun (slang):

  1. Unbone as a verb:

    To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.

  2. Unbone as a verb (obsolete):

    To twist about, as if boneless.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Milton"

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