ALL meanings of agate
ag·ate
A a - variable noun agate Agate is a very hard stone which is used to make jewellery. 3
- noun agate an impure microcrystalline form of quartz consisting of a variegated, usually banded chalcedony, used as a gemstone and in making pestles and mortars, burnishers, and polishers. Formula: SiO2 3
- noun agate a playing marble of this quartz or resembling it 3
- noun agate (formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 51⁄2 point 3
- adverb agate on the way 3
- noun agate James (Evershed). 1877–1947, British theatre critic; drama critic for The Sunday Times (1923–47) and author of a nine-volume diary Ego (1935–49) 3
- noun agate a hard semiprecious stone, a variety of chalcedony, with striped or clouded coloring 3
- noun agate any of various tools having agate parts, as a burnishing instrument with a tip of agate 3
- noun agate a little ball made of this stone or of glass, used in playing marbles 3
- noun agate a former small size of printing type, 51⁄2 points 3
- noun agate An ornamental stone consisting of a hard variety of chalcedony, typically banded in appearance. 1
- noun agate type of quartz stone 1
- noun agate made of agate 1
- noun agate a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings. 1
- noun agate a playing marble made of this substance, or of glass in imitation of it. 1
- noun agate Printing. a 5½-point type of a size between pearl and nonpareil. Compare ruby (def 6). 1
- noun agate (Countable Noun) NU (mineralogy) A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. 0
- noun agate (Uncountable Noun) (US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point. 0
- noun agate (Countable Noun) OBS A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. 0
- noun agate (Countable Noun) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing. 0
- noun agate (Slang) (chiefly in the plural) A testicle. 0
- adverb agate (Obsolete (No longer in use)) On the way; agoing. 0