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Ruby
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- 1 Of a deep, red color; ruby-red.
- 1 of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies wordnet
- 1 A female given name.
"Ruby, my dear / Hold back that tear / I know he's gone / Your love has flown"
- 2 A surname. rare
- 3 A male given name. rare
- 4 A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
"Ruby began life in Japan as the creation of Yukihiro Matsumoto, known more commonly as Matz. Unlike that of most language developers, Matz's motivation for Ruby was fun and a principle of “least surprise,” in order to improve overall developer productivity."
- 5 A city in Alaska.
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- 6 A ghost town in Arizona.
- 7 A town in South Carolina.
- 8 A town in Wisconsin.
- 9 A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
- 10 A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
- 1 A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone. countable, uncountable
"They respond instantly to the faintest rustling in the covert of a sheaf of Ulysses S. Grants, or the homely, rustic tinkle of a wheelbarrow full of rubies being jounced along over a nightclub floor."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”). alt-of, slang
- 3 A curry; ellipsis of Ruby Murray. Cockney, slang
"We're going down the Indian for a Ruby; wanna join us?"
- 4 a deep and vivid red color wordnet
- 5 A deep red colour. countable, uncountable
"When now I thinke you can behold such sights, / And keepe the naturall Rubie of your Cheekes, / When mine is blanch'd with feare."
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- 6 a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem wordnet
- 7 The tincture red or gules. countable, uncountable
"Elgin. Topaz a Saltier and Chief Ruby, on a Canton Pearl a Lyon Rampant Saphyr, which last is their paternal Coat; and the Field Topaz, and Saltier, and Chief Ruby, was the Arms of King Robert the Bruce, they altering the Field from Pearl (as he bore it) to Topaz."
- 8 a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers wordnet
- 9 A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda. countable, uncountable
- 10 A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra. countable, uncountable
- 11 The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point. UK, dated, uncountable
- 12 A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters. countable, uncountable
- 13 A red spinel. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 1 To make red; to redden. poetic, transitive
"With sanguine drops the walls are rubied"
Etymology
From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubi and rubine. Etymology 1 sense 7 (“pronunciation guide”) is from the British 5½-point type size (etymology 1 sense 6), used for annotations in printed documents.
From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubi and rubine. Etymology 1 sense 7 (“pronunciation guide”) is from the British 5½-point type size (etymology 1 sense 6), used for annotations in printed documents.
From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubi and rubine. Etymology 1 sense 7 (“pronunciation guide”) is from the British 5½-point type size (etymology 1 sense 6), used for annotations in printed documents.
The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century. The programming language was named after the gemstone.
The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century. The programming language was named after the gemstone.
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