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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deep and vivid red color
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("ruby" is a kind of...):
red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)
Derivation:
rubify (make ruby red)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("ruby" is a kind of...):
gem; jewel; precious stone (a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ruby" is a kind of...):
corundom; corundum (very hard mineral used as an abrasive)
transparent gem (a gemstone having the property of transmitting light without serious diffusion)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Synonyms:
blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
Context examples:
He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The researchers also said they monitored likely “visually stunning” clouds that could be made of corundum, a mineral found in rubies and sapphires, as they moved around the planet.
(Exoplanet Could Have Clouds of Rubies, Sapphires, VOA)
When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Previous detections of clouds by Hubble at the boundary between day and night, where temperatures mercifully fall, have shown that titanium oxide (popular as a sunscreen) and aluminum oxide (the basis for ruby, the gemstone) could also be molecularly reborn on the ultrahot Jupiters' nightsides.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds or rubies.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Her name was Gayelette, and she lived in a handsome palace built from great blocks of ruby.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
There was, in her cupboard, a Golden Cap, with a circle of diamonds and rubies running round it.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Gayelette made up her mind that when he grew to be a man she would make him her husband, so she took him to her ruby palace and used all her magic powers to make him as strong and good and lovely as any woman could wish.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
They stood side by side examining it. I was going to ask to see the rubies when the phone rang and Gatsby took up the receiver.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe—Paris, Venice, Rome—collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
