Question:
difference between a rock and a stone?
kidd2ace
2006-04-05 04:45:28 UTC
difference between a rock and a stone?
Ten answers:
paul
2006-04-05 04:49:29 UTC
What is the difference between a rock and a stone? Had we been proceeding logically, this issue would have come first. Many will say there is no difference. But if we ask a geologist, the answer comes out pat: a stone is a rock that's been put to use: stone hammer, rip-rap, gravel, wall, paving stone, tombstone, milestone, statue. Now, a geopoet, I surmise, will give the same answer, but where the geologist snaps a lid shut, the geopoet opens Pandora's box. What happens between rock and stone is simply everything human, from the modifications necessary to make homes to, at the other extreme, the excesses of ownership and exploitation which submit all ends to ours. So another answer might be: rock is as old as earth is; stone is as old as the superfamily Hominoidae.



What's the difference between rock and stone? In their natural setting, they're rocks; when we bring them into the garden, they're stones. Each has its own individual character.
Forever Friends
2006-04-05 11:46:17 UTC
difference between a rock is to sit on, and stone is way u can thru them, but not at other people lol



Susie
gypsyiiiis
2006-04-05 11:46:08 UTC
Size, a rock is big, a stone is little.
milo_hoffmann01
2006-04-05 11:48:18 UTC
Rock is bigger than a stone
Jay
2006-04-05 11:47:13 UTC
a rock is a mineral a stone is a british unit of measurement (weight)
anonymous
2006-04-05 11:48:00 UTC
rock is big stone, and stone is small
alakit013
2006-04-05 11:51:17 UTC
According to dictionaries, there is no difference.

Rock: "A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter"

Stone: "A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter"
Kanda
2006-04-05 13:09:01 UTC
Please compare Rocky Moutain and Stonehenge after you finish reading all the answers above.
callieRach
2006-04-05 11:48:28 UTC
one begins with r, the other begins with s. =D
anonymous
2006-04-05 11:46:18 UTC
Thanks for the 2 points for me


This content was originally posted on Y! Answers, a Q&A website that shut down in 2021.
Loading...