agate

1. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)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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2. (США, устаревшее, неисчисляемое)The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹⁄₂-point.

3. (исчисляемое)One fourteenth of an inch.

4. (исчисляемое)A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

5. (исчисляемое)A marble made from agate.

6. (исчисляемое, обычно во множественном числе, сленг, неисчисляемое)A testicle.

7. (исчисляемое, устаревшее)A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

1. I find agates really pretty.

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2. I often see cheap accessories made of agate sold in street stalls and such but are they the real thing?

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3. The wearing of agate ornaments was even believed to be a cure for insomnia and was thought to insure pleasant dreams.

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