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How to pronounce “agate”
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Pronunciation guide for agate
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- Practice the English pronunciation of agate with real speech in context.
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- Archeology from space
carnelian, quartz and agate
- Definition summary
- (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.
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How to pronounce agate
Archeology from space
carnelian, quartz and agate
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “agate”
Meaning
- [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.
Practice Nearby Words
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