RUBY

red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet

(adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

crimson, ruby, deep red

(noun) a deep and vivid red color

ruby

(noun) a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

ruby

(noun) a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

ruby (countable and uncountable, plural rubies)

A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.

(obsolete) A red spinel.

A deep red colour.

(heraldry) The tincture red or gules.

(uncountable, printing, UK, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

Synonym: agate (US)

A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.

A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.

Adjective

ruby (comparative more ruby, superlative most ruby)

Of a deep red colour.

Verb

ruby (third-person singular simple present rubies, present participle rubying, simple past and past participle rubied)

(transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.

Etymology 2

From the British 5.5-point font Ruby, used for annotations in printed documents.

Noun

ruby (plural rubies)

A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.

Synonym: rubi

Anagrams

• -bury, Bury, bury

Etymology

Proper noun

Ruby

A female given name from English.

(rare) A surname.

(rare) A male given name.

(computer language) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.

A city in Alaska.

A ghost town in Arizona

A town in South Carolina.

A town in Wisconsin.

A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.

Noun

Ruby

(Cockney rhyming slang) A curry, short for Ruby Murray.

Anagrams

• -bury, Bury, bury

Source: Wiktionary

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Ru"by, n.; pl. Rubies. Etym: [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL. rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber. See Rouge, red.]

1. (Min.)

Definition: A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.

Note: Besides the true or Oriental ruby above defined, there are the balas ruby, or ruby spinel, a red variety of spinel, and the rock ruby, a red variety of garnet. Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white. Chaucer.

2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. The natural ruby of your cheeks. Shak.

3. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.

4. (Print.)

Definition: See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.]

5. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolæma. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast. Ruby of arsenic, Ruby of sulphur (Chem.), a glassy substance of a red color and a variable composition, but always consisting chiefly of the disulphide of arsenic; -- called also ruby sulphur.

– Ruby of zinc (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende or sphalerite.

– Ruby silver (Min.), red silver. See under Red.

Ru"by, a.

Definition: Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.

Ru"by, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rubied; p. pr. & vb. n. Rubying.]

Definition: To make red; to redden. [R.] Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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