garnet

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See also: Garnet and garnett

English

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Garnet (1)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/
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Etymology 1

From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.

Noun

garnet (countable and uncountable, plural garnets)

  1. (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, page 127:
      How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
    • 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 June 2012, page 128:
      Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
  2. A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
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Adjective

garnet

  1. Of a dark red colour.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

garnet (plural garnets)

  1. (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out of a vessel.
    • 1893, Charles Bushell, The Rigger's Guide and Seaman's Assistant:
      Using a garnet for the lower-deck guns on the lower deck: Lash the centre of the yard to the mast, and hook both burtons to support the yard.
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Verb

garnet (third-person singular simple present garnets, present participle garneting, simple past and past participle garneted)

  1. (transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.
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References

  1. ^ “garnet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Etymology

From English garnet, from Middle English granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: gar‧net

Noun

garnet

  1. (mineralogy) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives
  2. a dark red color, like that of the gemstone

Adjective

garnet

  1. of a dark red colour

Danish

Noun

garnet n

  1. definite singular of garn

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

garnet n

  1. definite singular of garn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

garnet n

  1. definite singular of garn

Swedish

Noun

garnet

  1. definite singular of garn

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