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Emerald


Definition:

  • (n.) A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.
  • (n.) A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It is used by English printers.
  • (a.) Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The long, curving, sandy Plage des Chevrets is one of the prettiest on Brittany's Emerald Coast.
  • (2) I cannot see anything before October, or even the end of the year, because there remain some difficult topics to resolve.” Lozano is most intriguing on two things: the issue of justice, and what he sees as a potential impasse over economic policy and the role of multinational corporations, especially those wanting to extract Colombia’s significant riches in gold, emeralds, coal, hydrocarbons and minerals, or turn grassland into palm oil plantations.
  • (3) Three prototype robots – “SwarmBots” – have been tested on the Bate family property near Emerald and, by mid-2017, will be available to farmers in other parts of Australia on a fee-for-service basis.
  • (4) For anyone visiting the Emerald Isle it will be hard to miss the centenary salutes throughout the year.
  • (5) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (6) Cocos, the remote emerald tip of a towering underwater mountain range which was the setting for the fictional Isla Nublar in the novel Jurassic Park, has served as a pirate hideaway, whaling station, penal colony and a pit stop for Colombian drug runners.
  • (7) May wasn’t emeralds; it was the massacre of six people in Isla Vista , California, by a young misogynist and the birth of #YesAllWomen, perhaps the most catalytic in a year of powerful protests online about women and violence.
  • (8) Although I've learned to appreciate the grim beauty of murkiness, the washrag skies and mud so jealous it clings to every step, this emerald vision in the monochrome gloom is startling.
  • (9) This true-colour image of the spiralling system on 5 June shows a very deep low pressure area in the centre of the spiral, just off the northwestern shore of emerald-green Ireland.
  • (10) She stayed with my eldest daughter until I had moved house, and is now back here doing her thing, all emerald eyes and feline nonchalance.
  • (11) With acclaimed dishes of seafood chowder and honey-roast Silverhill duckling coming out of the kitchen, it's a good spot to try the crisp, slightly lemony Emerald Pale Ale.
  • (12) Photograph: Getty Images Emerald lake in Yoho national park is one of those impossibly turquoise glacial lakes surrounded by mountains.
  • (13) It is easy to see why Camillo Benso, the Count of Cavour, was devoted to this area: natural pools running between large, smooth rocks, where emerald waters flow from one waterfall to another.
  • (14) "His father designed it for me - he said it was an emerald for every year I spent on death row with their son - 11 emeralds."
  • (15) Afghanistan boasts deposits of everything from iron ore to emeralds, copper, lithium and natural gas, which Greening said could be worth up to $3tn.
  • (16) Hezekiah Allen of the Emerald Growers Association, an association of cannabis growers in California , said a burning marijuana farm would potentially release similar smoke into the air as when a person traditionally smokes.
  • (17) The colour of the natural pools justifies their name: Emerald Pools.
  • (18) Large crowds gather by the lake during Independence Day, Eid and Bengali New Year festivals, adding vibrant colour to its placid emerald-green waters.
  • (19) When financiers joked in 2008 that the only difference between bankrupt Iceland and hard-up Ireland was one letter and a few days, they got it wrong – the mess the Emerald Isle is now in is so much worse.
  • (20) To protect their feet, they bought soft leather boots and Agatha swapped her silky bathing outfit for something a little more practical but equally stylish: "A wonderful, skimpy emerald green wool bathing dress, which was the joy of my life, and in which I thought I looked remarkably well!"

Smaragdine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.

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