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- agate
['ægɪt]
['ægət]
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1.
noun
玛瑙
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2.
noun
带玛瑙尖的工具（如磨擦抛光器）
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3.
noun
（孩子们玩的，用玛瑙或玻璃制的）弹子
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4.
noun
[印]
[American English]
5 1/2点铅字
Collins English-English Dictionary
- agate
['ægɪt]
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1.
n
[printing]
[US and Canadian]
(formerly) a size of printer's type approximately equal to 51/2 point ruby
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2.
n
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
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3.
n
a playing marble of this quartz or resembling it
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4.
n
[Etymology]
C16: via French from Latin achates, from Greek akhates
- agate
[ə'geɪt]
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1.
adv
[Northern English]
[Dialect]
on the way
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2.
adv
[Etymology]
C16: a-2 + gate3
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