Synonyms for agate
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ag-it |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈæg ɪt |
Définition of agate
Origin :- 1560s, from Middle French agathe (16c.), from Latin achates, from Greek akhates, the name of a river in Sicily where the stones were found (Pliny). But the river could as easily be named for the stone.
- The earlier English form of the word, achate (early 13c.), was directly from Latin. Figurative sense of "a diminutive person" (c.1600) is from the now-obsolete meaning "small figures cut in agates for seals," preserved in typographer's agate (1838), the U.S. name of the 5.5-point font called in Great Britain ruby. Meaning "toy marble made of glass resembling agate" is from 1843 (colloquially called an aggie).
- As in typeface : noun printing font
- His child-like face, with the soft, agate eyes, expressed only bewilderment.
- Extract from : « The Martian Cabal » by Roman Frederick Starzl
- Some of the bracelets are furnished with studs set with agate or coral.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 » by Various
- The cup in which it spins is made of agate flint, or other hard substance.
- Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
- And this some seers have professed to be the virtue of a stone of agate.
- Extract from : « Zanoni » by Edward Bulwer Lytton
- Suddenly all is light and life and flight, Upon the sandy bottom, agate strewn.
- Extract from : « Silverpoints » by John Gray
- What was agate had slipped out to others as well as ourselves.
- Extract from : « Johnny Ludlow, Third Series » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- We were in great dismay, since there was no agate at hand as raw material.
- Extract from : « Adventurings in the Psychical » by H. Addington Bruce
- The walls of his chamber were enriched with tiles of alabaster, agate, and turquoise.
- Extract from : « The Captain of the Janizaries » by James M. Ludlow
- Other specimens imitated jade or agate or cornelian or some other stone.
- Extract from : « Chats on Oriental China » by J. F. Blacker
- The attachment can be placed on agate ware or sheet-iron pans of any length.
- Extract from : « The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 » by Various
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