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発音

• IPA: /ˈæɡ.ɪt/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈæɡ.ət/
• 韻: -æɡɪt

名詞

agate (countable and uncountable, plural agates)

1. (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.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 9:

     The ends of the veil, drawn over her head, were embroidered with silver; she had long gold ear-rings; to a rich and large gold chain was suspended a cross set with precious stones; and over the arm of her chair hung a rosary of agate beads.

   • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 86:

     Yes: living among the cohabations of Faust himself, among the litharge and agate and hyacinth and pearls.

2. (uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+⁄₂-point.
3. (countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch.
4. (countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
5. (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
6. (countable) A marble made from agate.
7. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

同意語

• (type size): (UK) ruby
• (marble): aggie

上位語

• silica (any mineral of the silica group)

下位語

• (mineralogy): fortification agate, Scotch pebble; moss agate, clouded agate

派生語

関連する語

• aggie

語源 2

From Late 中期英語 agate, a gate. Equivalent to a- (“on”) +‎ gate (“way, path”).

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈɡeɪt/

副詞

agate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) On the way; agoing.
   • 1554, Interlude of Youth:

     Go to it then hardily, and let us be agate.

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:

     I'm fear'd you have some ill plans agate.

派生語

発音

• IPA: /aˈɡaːt(ə)/

副詞

agate (Late Middle English, rare)

1. straight away, immediately
2. on the way, while travelling

派生した語

• English: agate
• Middle Scots: agait, agate
  • Scots: agate, agait

参照

• “agāte, adv..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

副詞

a gate

1. (Late Middle English) straightway

派生した語

• English: agate

参照

• “agāte, adv..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.