limestone
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See also: Limestone
English
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Pronunciation
[edit ]- (General American ) IPA (key): /ˈlaɪmˌstoʊn/
- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /ˈlaɪmˌstəʊn/
- Rhymes: -aɪmstəʊn
Noun
[edit ]limestone (countable and uncountable , plural limestones )
- An abundant rock of marine and freshwater sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO3); and occurring in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.
- a limestone viaduct
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
- 1939 July, "What the Railways are Doing: The New Ebbw Vale Steelworks", in Railway Magazine, page 68:
- As each blast furnace uses 200 tons of limestone daily, and each limestone kiln 150 tons, a total of 730 tons of limestone has to be carried daily, in addition to limestone chippings, which are sold.
- 2024 November 19, Nicola Venning, "Welcome to the Notswolds", in Country Life[1] , archived from the original on 14 May 2025:
- Rutland (and some of the bordering ‘Notswolds’ counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) have the same mellow, creamy limestone as the Cotswolds and boast beguiling market towns and villages that are every bit as attractive, but without the tourists or hefty prices.
Synonyms
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[edit ]- (mineralogy): bluestone , burrstone , calp , coquina , coral rag , chalk , malm , marble , travertine , tufa
Derived terms
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[edit ]abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments
- Albanian: gur gëlqeror m
- Arabic: حَجَر جِيرِيّ m (ḥajar jīriyy), حَجَر كِلْسِيّ m (ḥajar kilsiyy)
- Armenian: կրաքար (hy) (krakʻar)
- Asturian: piedra caliar f, caliar f
- Azerbaijani: əhəngdaşı (az)
- Basque: kareharri inan
- Belarusian: вапня́к m (vapnják)
- Bengali: ঘুটিং (bn) (ghuṭiṅ)
- Bulgarian: варо́вик (bg) (varóvik)
- Burmese: ထုံးကျောက် (my) (htum:kyauk)
- Catalan: pedra calcària
- Chinese:
- Czech: vápenec (cs) m
- Danish: kalksten (da) c
- Dutch: kalksteen (nl) n
- Esperanto: kalkoŝtono (eo)
- Estonian: lubjakivi
- Finnish: kalkkikivi (fi) , kalkki (fi)
- French: calcaire (fr) m
- Galician: calcaria (gl) f
- Georgian: კირქვა (ḳirkva)
- German: Kalkstein (de) m, Calciumcarbonat (de) n, Kalk (de) m
- Greek: ασβεστόλιθος (el) m (asvestólithos)
- Hebrew: גִּיר (he) m (gir), אֶבֶן גִּיר f (even gir)
- Hindi: चूना पत्थर m (cūnā patthar)
- Hungarian: mészkő (hu)
- Icelandic: kalksteinn (is)
- Indonesian: batu kapur (id)
- Ingrian: kalkki , kalkkikivi
- Irish: aolchloch f, cloch aoil f
- Italian: calcare (it) m
- Japanese: 石灰岩 (ja) (せっかいがん, sekkaigan)
- Kazakh: әктас (kk) (äktas)
- Khmer: ថ្មកំបោរ (thmɑɑ kɑmbao), កំបោរថ្ម (kɑmbao thmɑɑ)
- Korean: 석회암(石灰岩) (ko) (seokhoeam), 석회석(石灰石) (ko) (seokhoeseok)
- Kyrgyz: акиташ (ky) (akitaş)
- Lao: ຫິນປູນ (hin pūn)
- Latin: calx f
- Latvian: kaļķakmens m
- Lithuanian: klintis m
- Macedonian: варовник m (varovnik)
- Malay: batu kapur
- Māori: pākeho
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: шохойн чулуу (šoxoin čuluu)
- Nahuatl:
- Classical Nahuatl: tenextetl
- Norman: pièrre dé caux f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: calcari (oc) m, calquièr m
- Persian: سنگ آهک (sang âhak)
- Pitjantjatjara: arpata
- Plautdietsch: Kaulkjsteen n
- Polish: wapień (pl) m
- Portuguese: calcário (pt) m
- Romanian: calcar (ro) n
- Russian: известня́к (ru) m (izvestnják)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: vápenec (sk) m
- Slovene: apnenec (sl) m
- Spanish: caliza (es) f
- Swedish: kalksten (sv) c
- Tajik: оҳаксанг (ohaksang)
- Tatar: известьташ (izwestʹtaş)
- Thai: หินปูน (th) (hǐn-bpuun)
- Tibetan: རྡོ་ཐལ་རྡོ (rdo thal rdo), རྡོ་ཐལ་བྲག (rdo thal brag)
- Turkish: kireç taşı (tr) ; küfeki (tr) (fossiliferous limestone)
- Turkmen: hek daşy
- Ukrainian: вапня́к (uk) m (vapnják)
- Urdu: چونا پتھر m (cūnā patthar)
- Uyghur: ھاك تېشى (hak tëshi)
- Uzbek: ohaktosh (uz)
- Vietnamese: đá vôi (vi)
- Welsh: calchfaen (cy) m, carreg galch f
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- Bulgarian: варо́вик (bg) m (varóvik)
- Dutch: kalkstenen (nl)
- Finnish: kalkkikivinen , kalkkikivi- (fi)
- Galician: calcario (gl) m, calcaria (gl) f
- German: Kalk- (de)
- Polish: wapienny (pl)
- Portuguese: calcário (pt) m, calcária f
- Spanish: calizo (es) m, caliza (es) f
- Tagalog: batong-apog
- Tibetan: རྡོ་ཐལ་གྱི (rdo thal gyi), རྡོ་ཐལ་རྡོའི (rdo thal rdo'i)
- Welsh: calch (cy) , calchfaen (cy)
See also
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