garnet
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English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/
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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
mineral
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colour
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See also
(mineral):
Adjective
garnet
- Of a dark red colour.
See also
- 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
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.
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