ruby
ruby
Definition
ruby (ro̵̅o̅′bē)
noun pl. -·bies
- a clear, deep-red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone
- something made of this stone, as a watch bearing
- deep red
- something having this color
Etymology: ME < OFr rubi, ult. < L rubeus, reddish; akin to ruber, red
adjective
deep-red
Ruby
Definition
Ruby (ro̵̅o̅′bē)
ruby
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- get: Posted by Darren on 02 Nov 2004 Sam I have to get ruby has a take out from a pub in Sheffield.
- have: There's a large statue in the temple, which seems to have rubies for eyes.
- wear: Inside are the enameled busts of the Queen and her mother, Anne Boleyn, wearing ruby and diamond brooches respectively.
- find: The problem previously was that textmate wasn't finding ruby at all.
- take: Death will take a ruby from it, place the ruby in your hands, you will strike my head with it.
Noun used with modifier
- balas: Richard II had a coat, valued at thirty thousand marks, which was covered with balas rubies.
- star: Goujun sat up in the pile of cushions, hair loose around his shoulders, eyes blood-red and cold as star rubies.
Adjective modifier
- dark: She was a ghost in white among taller ghosts, and she followed them placidly, her eyes dark rubies in the night.
- deep: Tasting Note: Deep ruby in color with a youthfull crimson rim.
- red: God then ordered the angels to bring from the highest Paradise a stone of red ruby.
- good: Cobra goes kosher Whether you like your curry hot or mild, nothing goes finer with a good old ruby than some beer.
- synthetic: Consists of hundreds of letters hand written in many segments over a number of years by Bruce Roberts, the creator of synthetic rubies.
- large: His head is wrapped in a turban and in the center of its front is the largest ruby they've ever seen.
Modifies a noun
- chard: These include ruby chard, lambs lettuce, and salad burnet.
- slipper: Maybe we should offer some ruby slippers by way of sending them back home.
- glow: Eye color to reflect a distinct rich ruby glow.
- lip: Although she is outlined in black ink, one sees ruby red lips and emphatic eyeliner.
- laser: You see not even all ruby lasers are the same!
- red: Tasting Note: Deep ruby red in color tending to brown around the edges.
Preposition: in
- color: Tasting Note: Deep ruby in color with a youthfull crimson rim.
ruby Quotes
The rubyand amethyst eyes of anemones Glow through me, fiercer than stars.
Browse dictionary entries near ruby
- rubrician
- rubricate
- rubrical
- rubric
- ruble
- rubious
- Rubinstein
- Rubin, Robert
- rubiginous
- rubied
