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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/

語源 1

From 中期英語 gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.

名詞

garnet (countable and uncountable, plural garnets)

1. (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson‎:

     On the back of one cover BRADSHAW, in beryls, was encrusted; on the back of the other, A.B.C. GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.

   • 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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派生語

関連する語

• grenade
• pomegranate

参考

形容詞

garnet

1. Of a dark red colour.

参考

語源 2

名詞

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.

派生語

• clew-garnet

語源 3

動詞

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.

派生語

• garneter

参照

アナグラム

• Tanger, Argent, Granet, Gretna, argent, gerant, Gernat