Ruby \Ru"by\, n.; pl. Rubies. [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL.
rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber.
See Rouge, red.]
1. (Min.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes
verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and
hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of
corundum.
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Note: Besides the true or Oriental ruby above defined, there
are the balas ruby, or ruby spinel, a red variety of
spinel, and the rock ruby, a red variety of garnet.
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Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white.
--Chaucer.
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2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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The natural ruby of your cheeks. --Shak.
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3. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence,
a red blain or carbuncle.
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4. (Print.) See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.]
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5. (Zool.) Any species of South American humming birds of the
genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat
or breast.
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Ruby of arsenic, Ruby of sulphur (Chem.), a glassy
substance of a red color and a variable composition, but
always consisting chiefly of the disulphide of arsenic; --
called also ruby sulphur.
Ruby of zinc (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende
or sphalerite.
Ruby silver (Min.), red silver. See under Red.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ruby \Ru"by\, a.
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ruby \Ru"by\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rubied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rubying.]
To make red; to redden. [R.] --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ruby
adj : having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent
of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
[syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby-red,
scarlet]
n 1: a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished
and is valued as a precious gem
2: a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a
gemstone and in lasers
3: a deep and vivid red [syn: crimson, deep red]
WordNet (r) 2.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "ruby":
Titian, Titian-red, adamant, agate, alexandrite, amethyst,
aquamarine, beryl, bloodstone, bricky, brilliant, carbuncle,
cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, chalcedony,
cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, chrysoberyl, chrysolite,
citrine, coral, crimson, damask, demantoid, diamond, emerald,
ferruginous, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming,
garnet, girasol, glowing, gules, harlequin opal, heliotrope, hot,
hyacinth, incarmined, incarnadine, inflamed, infrared, iron-red,
jade, jadestone, jargoon, jasper, lake-colored, laky, lapis lazuli,
lateritious, lobster-red, lurid, maroon, moonstone, morganite,
onyx, opal, peridot, plasma, port-wine, puce, red, red-dyed,
red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown,
rose quartz, rubicund, rubify, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose,
ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddle, ruddy, rufescent, rufous,
rust, rust-red, rusty, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, scarlet, spinel,
spinel ruby, stammel, tile-red, topaz, turquoise, vermilion,
vinaceous, warm, wine, wine-colored, wine-red
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Ruby
1. A relational language designed by Jones and M. Sheeran in
1986 for describing and designing circuits (a hardware
description language). Ruby programs denote binary
relations and programs are built-up inductively from
primitive relations using a pre-defined set of relational
operators. Ruby programs also have a geometric
interpretation as networks of primitive relations connected by
wires, which is important when layout is considered in circuit
design.
Ruby has been continually developed since 1986, and has been
used to design many different kinds of circuits, including
systolic arrays, butterfly networks and arithmetic
circuits.
(ftp://ftp.cs.chalmers.se/pub/misc/ruby/).
E-mail: .
["Ruby - A Language of Relations and Higher-Order Functions",
M. Sheeran, Proc 3rd Banff Workshop on Hardware Verification,
Springer 1990].
(1994-10-27)
2. One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov
algorithms, used in Higman's report (below). The other
languages are Brilliant, Diamond, Nonpareil, and
Pearl.
["Nonpareil, a Machine Level Machine Independent Language for
the Study of Semantics", B. Higman, ULICS Intl Report No ICSI
170, U London (1968)].
(1994-10-27)
3. A fully object oriented interpreted scripting
language by Yukihiro Matsumoto .
Similar in scope to Perl and Python, Ruby has high-level
data types, automatic memory management, dynamic typing,
a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library.
Other features are CLU-style iterators for loop
abstraction, singleton classes/{methods} and lexical
closures.
In Ruby, everything is an object, including the basic data
types. For example, the number 1 is an instance of class
Fixnum.
Current version (stable): 1.6.7, as of 2002-03-01.
Ruby Home (http://www.ruby-lang.org/).
Ruby Central (http://www.rubycentral.com/).
["Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide", David
Thomas, Andrew Hunt, Yukihiro Matsumoto pub. Addison Wesley
2000].
(2002-06-19)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
Ruby
(Heb. peninim), only in plural (Lam. 4:7). The ruby was one of
the stones in the high priest's breastplate (Ex. 28:17). A
comparison is made between the value of wisdom and rubies (Job
28:18; Prov. 3:15; 8:11). The price of a virtuous woman is said
to be "far above rubies" (Prov. 31:10). The exact meaning of the
Hebrew word is uncertain. Some render it "red coral;" others,
"pearl" or "mother-of-pearl."
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Ruby, AK (city, FIPS 65590)
Location: 64.71757 N, 155.52066 W
Population (1990): 170 (92 housing units)
Area: 19.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99768
Ruby, MI
Zip code(s): 48049
Ruby, SC (town, FIPS 62080)
Location: 34.74414 N, 80.17974 W
Population (1990): 300 (148 housing units)
Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 29741
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Ruby, AK -- U.S. city in Alaska
Population (2000): 188
Housing Units (2000): 107
Land area (2000): 7.550772 sq. miles (19.556408 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.550772 sq. miles (19.556408 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65590
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 64.737306 N, 155.487693 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99768
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ruby, AK
Ruby
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Ruby, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000): 348
Housing Units (2000): 182
Land area (2000): 3.107268 sq. miles (8.047788 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.021608 sq. miles (0.055964 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.128876 sq. miles (8.103752 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62080
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.745626 N, 80.175903 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29741
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Ruby, SC
Ruby
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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