garnet
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Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.
Noun
garnet (countable and uncountable, plural garnets)
- (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, page 127:
- How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
- 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 June 2012, page 128:
- Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
- A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
- garnet:
Derived terms
- cross-garnet
- demantoid garnet
- garnet berry (red currant)
- garnet brown
- garnetiferous
- garnet-throated hummingbird
- garnet yam
- garnierite
- gooseberry garnet
- mandarin garnet
- rose garnet
- tsavorite garnet
- YAG
- yttrium iron garnet
Related terms
Translations
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See also
Adjective
garnet
- Of a dark red colour.
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
Etymology 2
Noun
garnet (plural garnets)
- (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out of a vessel.[1]
- 1893, Charles Bushell, The Rigger's Guide and Seaman's Assistant:
- Using a garnet for the lower-deck guns on the lower deck: Lash the centre of the yard to the mast, and hook both burtons to support the yard.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Verb
garnet (third-person singular simple present garnets, present participle garneting, simple past and past participle garneted)
Derived terms
References
- “garnet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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