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ruby

noun
/ˈɹuː.bi/

Etymology

From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubi and rubine. Sense 7 (“pronunciation guide”) is from the British 5½-point type size (sense 6), used for annotations in printed documents.

  1. derived from rubīnus
  2. derived from rubi
  3. inherited from ruby

Definitions

  1. A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.

    • 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.
    • Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

  2. A deep red colour.

    • When now I thinke you can behold such sights, / And keepe the naturall Rubie of your Cheekes, / When mine is blanch'd with feare.

  3. The tincture red or gules.

    • The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. [...] Checkie Topaz and Saphire, a Fesse within a Bordure Ruby, by the Name of Clifford.
    • (1) Pearl, a Cross, Ruby, with the Effigies of our Saviour thereon, Topaz, born in Memory of one of the Family's fighting against the Turks. (2) Topaz, a Chief Indented, Saphire. (3) Ruby, three covered Cups, Topaz [...]
  4. ›+ 19 more definitions

    1. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.

    2. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.

    3. The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

    4. A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.

    5. A red spinel.

    6. Of a deep, red color

      Of a deep, red color; ruby-red.

    7. To make red

      To make red; to redden.

      • With sanguine drops the walls are rubied

    8. Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”).

    9. A female given name.

      • Ruby, my dear / Hold back that tear / I know he's gone / Your love has flown
      • And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body.

    10. A surname.

    11. A male given name.

    12. A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in…

      A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.

      • The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java.

    13. A city in Alaska.

    14. A ghost town in Arizona.

    15. A town in South Carolina.

    16. A town in Wisconsin.

    17. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.

    18. A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

    19. A curry

      A curry; ellipsis of Ruby Murray.

      • We're going down the Indian for a Ruby; wanna join us?
      • No matter if you're Asian, Arab or Eskimo, everyone loves a ruby.

The neighborhood

Derived

antique ruby, balas-ruby, Colorado ruby, Mont Blanc ruby, nonruby, ovorubin, rock ruby, rose-a-ruby, rubasse, rubelet, rubious, ruby anniversary, ruby blende, ruby chocolate, Ruby Creek, ruby jubilee, rubylike, ruby port, ruby red, ruby-red, ruby shark, ruby silver, ruby slippers, ruby spinel, rubytail, rubythroat, ruby-throated hummingbird, ruby tiger, rubyware, ruby wedding, rubywood, star ruby, Rubygate, Rubyist

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ruby. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA