agate

1. (злічуване, незлічуване)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, застаріле, незлічуване)The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹⁄₂-point.

3. (злічуване)One fourteenth of an inch.

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

5. (злічуване)A marble made from agate.

6. (злічуване, зазвичай у множині, сленг, незлічуване)A testicle.

7. (злічуване, застаріле)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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