English words for 'Alternative form of beta quartz.'
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noun
- an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
- (countable) A marble made from agate.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
- (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
- (countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch.
noun
noun
- a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals
- A stone, possibly Icelandic spar, said in late medieval sources to have been used by navigators in the Viking Age and later to find the location of the sun in an overcast sky, possibly via polatization of light.
- (mineralogy) A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
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noun
- An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
- (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
- (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
- Jasperware pottery.
- (Appalachia) A stranger.
- an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone
verb
noun
- A mineral, especially a crystal, enclosed within another
- A person of the endomorphic physical type, characterised by big bones, round face, large trunk and thighs and a naturally high degree of body fat, especially around the midsection.
- (bodybuilding) A person having a theoretical body type with slow metabolism in which weight is gained easily, but fat levels are hard to reduce. Endomorphic bodybuilders tend to be the most massive.
- a heavy person with a soft and rounded body
noun
- Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
- (geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
- (slang) A small piece of crack cocaine.
- (curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
- A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
- a small smooth rounded rock
verb
noun
- an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles
- (countable) A marble made from agate.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
- (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
- (countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch.
noun
noun
- a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals
- A stone, possibly Icelandic spar, said in late medieval sources to have been used by navigators in the Viking Age and later to find the location of the sun in an overcast sky, possibly via polatization of light.
- (mineralogy) A translucent form of feldspar having flakes of hematite, used as an ornamental stone.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
- (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
- (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
- Jasperware pottery.
- (Appalachia) A stranger.
- an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone
verb
noun
- A mineral, especially a crystal, enclosed within another
- A person of the endomorphic physical type, characterised by big bones, round face, large trunk and thighs and a naturally high degree of body fat, especially around the midsection.
- (bodybuilding) A person having a theoretical body type with slow metabolism in which weight is gained easily, but fat levels are hard to reduce. Endomorphic bodybuilders tend to be the most massive.
- a heavy person with a soft and rounded body
noun
- Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
- (geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
- (slang) A small piece of crack cocaine.
- (curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
- A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
- a small smooth rounded rock
verb
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