'Ruby' definitions:

Definition of 'ruby'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet]
noun
A transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
noun
A transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
noun
A deep and vivid red color [syn: crimson, ruby, deep red]

Definition of 'Ruby'

From: GCIDE
  • Ruby \Ru"by\, a. Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ruby'

From: GCIDE
  • Ruby \Ru"by\, n.; pl. Rubies. [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL. rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber. See Rouge, red.]
  • 1. (Min.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Besides the true or Oriental ruby above defined, there are the balas ruby, or ruby spinel, a red variety of spinel, and the rock ruby, a red variety of garnet. [1913 Webster]
  • Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. [1913 Webster]
  • The natural ruby of your cheeks. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Print.) See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Zool.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast. [1913 Webster]
  • Ruby of arsenic, Ruby of sulphur (Chem.), a glassy substance of a red color and a variable composition, but always consisting chiefly of the disulphide of arsenic; -- called also ruby sulphur.
  • Ruby of zinc (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende or sphalerite.
  • Ruby silver (Min.), red silver. See under Red. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ruby'

From: GCIDE
  • Ruby \Ru"by\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rubied; p. pr. & vb. n. Rubying.] To make red; to redden. [R.] --Pope. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'ruby'

From: Easton
  • Ruby (Heb. peninim), only in plural (Lam. 4:7). The ruby was one of the stones in the high priest's breastplate (Ex. 28:17). A comparison is made between the value of wisdom and rubies (Job 28:18; Prov. 3:15; 8:11). The price of a virtuous woman is said to be "far above rubies" (Prov. 31:10). The exact meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain. Some render it "red coral;" others, "pearl" or "mother-of-pearl."

Synonyms of 'ruby'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Ruby, AK -- U.S. city in Alaska

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Ruby, AK -- U.S. city in Alaska
Population (2000) :
188
Housing Units (2000) :
107
Land area (2000) :
7.550772 sq. miles (19.556408 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
7.550772 sq. miles (19.556408 sq. km)
FIPS code :
65590
Located within :
Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location :
64.737306 N, 155.487693 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
99768
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Ruby, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Ruby, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000) :
348
Housing Units (2000) :
182
Land area (2000) :
3.107268 sq. miles (8.047788 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.021608 sq. miles (0.055964 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
3.128876 sq. miles (8.103752 sq. km)
FIPS code :
62080
Located within :
South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location :
34.745626 N, 80.175903 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
29741
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

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