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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
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
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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