agate
IPA: ˈægʌt
noun
- (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
- (uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹⁄₂-point.
- (countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch.
- (countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
- (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
- (countable) A marble made from agate.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
adverb
- (obsolete) On the way; agoing.
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Examples of "agate" in Sentences
- List of people with surname Agate.
- The carving is a three layer agate.
- In Isaiah they are made out of agate.
- An agate is a unit of typographical measure.
- They are endemic to the Agate Desert region.
- The banded agate is used for the manufacture of cameos.
- Thunderegg is not synonymous with either geode or agate.
- At that time all newspaper ads were set in agate and only agate.
- Such stones are known as banded agate, riband agate and striped agate.
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