(n.) A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine Power, one of a number of Edinburgh-based marine energy firms, said that choosing the city was "tremendous news" for his industry, which has been boosted by a series of green energy investment decisions by major global firms including Mitsubishi, Gamesa and Samsung Heavy Industries.
(2) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
(3) Examples of this approach include Alstom who have invested in Brightsource (utility scale solar thermal) and Tidal Generation (tidal power); ABB is working with Aquamarine (wave power) and Trilliant (smart grid); Siemens with Tendril and a number of other smart grid companies; Monsanto with biofuels company Sapphire Energy .
(4) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine, said publicising marine energy was crucial, as was accelerating investment in the industry.
(5) The bright sun and aquamarine water looked vaguely tropical, but the grimaces and boiled lobster colour of the competitors were a more accurate guide to temperature.
(6) Imagine a bald Jimmy Savile painted aquamarine, contorting his mouth into a gaping downturned maw.
(7) Her Majesty came in civvies, sporting a smart white silk brocade coat and flower trimmed hat, finished off with an enormous Brazilian aquamarine.
(8) Martin McAdam, chief executive officer of wave energy company Aquamarine Power, said there had been no consultation.
(9) "As a business, Aquamarine Power has been firmly neutral on the matter of independence," he said.
(10) The competition will be open to existing designs and established marine energy firms, including the Edinburgh-based firms behind the "sea snake" wave machine, Pelamis, and the "oyster" wave machine, Aquamarine power.
(11) It's a stretch that has at least 243 beaches of unparalleled beauty , and the kind of limpid aquamarine saltwater that has sent poets into raptures.
(12) After a series of commercial failures in Scotland’s nascent marine power industry, including the collapse of two wave power firms, Pelarmis and Aquamarine, Nova Innovation’s announcement was applauded by environmental groups.
(13) We ain’t been winning anything,” said Henry L Irvin Sr, an air force veteran in an aquamarine T-shirt bearing the slogan “Katrina – I am a survivor”.
(14) zumbido Slovenia The Soca valley, Kobarid From the small town of Kobarid you can follow the amazingly aquamarine Soca river upstream to the Kozjak waterfall.
(15) He is turned out nattily: an aquamarine shirt is co-ordinated with leather Oxford shoes; his hair spills out of a black newsboy cap and he wears dazzling white socks, as he always does.
(16) Rooms are small but striking – with a don’t-try-this-at-home colour scheme of dark chocolate, aquamarine and off-whites.
(17) Also to use wave power is a more powerful version of Aquamarine's existing Oyster machine , in which a lever hinged at the ocean floor is pushed back and forth.
(18) Aquamarine, which is behind a yellow near-shore device known as Oyster, is making about 30 staff redundant .
(19) The job losses were “a consequence of the considerable financial, regulatory and technical challenges faced by the ocean energy sector as a whole,” according to Aquamarine’s chief executive, John Malcolm.
(20) The study was carried out on samples of cotton textiles for children, two were dyed beige and aquamarine , one was white.
Turquoise
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Turquois
(a.) Having a fine light blue color, like that of choice mineral turquoise.
Example Sentences:
(1) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(2) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(3) The calcium ions prevent the neutral red sorption and intensify the turquoise direct sorption.
(4) In the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific, the coral come together with tiny algae to make magic.
(5) The website shows the rooms are dingy and tasteless: turquoise carpets, small windows, chintz bedspreads.
(6) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was awash with the turquoises of the sea and the red bobble hats of the eccentric crew.
(7) Photograph: Alamy New Mexico is famous for its turquoise gemstones, and nowhere more so than the Cerrillos Hills , just south of Santa Fe.
(8) There's a large portrait of a dark-haired woman with turquoise eye shadow that resembles a Warhol.
(9) Under the pristine turquoise waters off the island are perfectly conserved seagrass meadows.
(10) At one stage Margaret and her husband Lord Snowdon jazzed it up with an of-its-time pink, turquoise and orange colour scheme.
(11) Now the turquoise-shuttered Agnelli villa at Kouloura, two bays south of the Rothschilds' and a three-minute boat hop to the Agni Taverna, is said to be up for sale at €15m.
(12) Don't expect sandy beaches, do expect iridescent turquoise seas (especially in the Blue Grotto sea cave), fresh seafood, and a laid-back, unhurried lifestyle that would seduce even the nerviest banker into blissful lethargy.
(13) From the street that snakes past it from the town hall, you see only blank walls, done out in shades of turquoise.
(14) The Iranian embassy in Mezze, its turquoise mosaic front giving an exotic glimpse of Isfahan or Shiraz, looks like a fortress.
(15) The beach is beautiful – arcing white sands intersecting in turquoise waters – but it is hard to imagine it as a tourist destination any time soon.
(16) Why does Bush’s shirt appear to glow in florescent tints of turquoise and purple?
(17) She has spry, bright eyes which match her curly blonde locks, and there’s a playful elegance in the vivid turquoise scarf and pink necklace she wears against her black outfit.
(18) I started talking to Octavia Mphumbude, who was tentatively testing a running machine in her turquoise jeans and black cardigan.
(19) Photograph: Getty Images Emerald lake in Yoho national park is one of those impossibly turquoise glacial lakes surrounded by mountains.
(20) I thought, "My God, if we put that with the turquoise water of Fiji and then pure white sand, what does that feel like?"