Agate

Word AGATE
Character 5
Hyphenation ag ate a gate
Pronunciations /ˈæ.ɡət/

Definitions and meanings of "Agate"

What do we mean by agate?

A fine-grained, fibrous variety of chalcedony with colored bands or irregular clouding. noun

A playing marble made of agate or a glass imitation of it; an aggie. noun

A tool with agate parts, such as a burnisher tipped with agate. noun

A type size, about 5 1/2 points. noun

A variety of quartz which is peculiar in consisting of bands or layers of various colors blended together. noun

A draw-plate used by gold-wire drawers, named from the piece of agate through which the eye is drilled. noun

In printing, type of a size between pearl and nonpareil, giving about 160 lines to the foot. It is used chiefly in newspapers. In Great Britain it is known as ruby. noun

This line is printed in agate. noun

An instrument used by bookbinders for polishing; a burnisher. noun

A child's playing-marble made of agate, or of glass in imitation of agate. noun

Nautical, the jewel cup in the center of the compass-card, which rests upon the upright pivot in the center of the compass-bowl. noun

On the way; going; agoing; in motion: as, “set him agate again,” Lingua, iii. 6; “set the bells agate,” Cotgrave.

A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. noun

A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby. noun

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. noun

A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing. noun

On the way; agoing adverb

A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. noun

A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby. noun

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. noun

A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5 1/2-point.

One fourteenth of an inch

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

A marble made from agate.

(usually in the plural) A testicle.

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The word "agate" in example sentences

I'd like to offer you black agate from a mine we own. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Charlie and Chester [from DOOR WAY] are caught in agate for the rest of us to see and remember the quiet beauty of their lives, for people long after we have “walked into our own shadows” as you put it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In this nurturing environment Bruce Holmes began organizing what was called the agate project. ❋ Unknown (2001)

At present agate and onyx differ only in the manner in which the stone is cut; if it is so cut as to show the layers of colour, it is called agate; if cut parallel to the lines, onyx. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

For example, when Baudelaire first used the word agate in an original and evocative metaphor for cat's eyes (Et laisse-moi plonger dans tes beaux yeux,/ ❋ Unknown (1986)

Amongst that collection, none pleased so well, as the apotheosis of Germanicus, on a large agate, which is one of the most delicate pieces of the kind that I remember to have seen. ❋ Montague, Lady Mary W (1724)

We had a guy who handled "agate," the tiny type that takes up a lot of space in sports sections. ❋ Tgilli (2009)

We have a guy who handles "agate," the tiny type that takes up a lot of space in sports sections. ❋ Tgilli (2009)

Precious stones such as agate, emeralds, onyx and pearls were ground and swallowed as powders or mixed into sauces. ❋ Julianne Douglas (2008)

The cup itself is of a kind of agate, like chalcedony or sardonyx. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As a free mineral, not combined in clays and rocks, it occurs as quartz rock, silica sand, sandstone, flint pebble and as semi-precious stones such as agate, opal and jasper. ❋ Unknown (1987)

The most expensive materials were employed in the manufacture of snuff-boxes, such as agate, mosaics, and all kinds of rare wood, while many were of gold, studded with diamonds. ❋ E. R. Billings (N/A)

This marvellous machine is capable of setting almost any size of type, from the minute "agate" to and including "pica," a letter more than one-eighth of an inch high, and a line of almost any desired width, the change from one size to any other requiring but a few minutes. ❋ Russell Doubleday (1910)

The internal decorations consist of inlaid work in precious stones, such as agate, jasper, etc., with which every squandril or salient point in the architecture is richly fretted. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

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