garnet
any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
a deep-red color.
Origin of garnet
1Other words from garnet
- gar·net·like, adjective
Words Nearby garnet
Other definitions for Garnet (2 of 2)
Henry Highland, 1815–82, U.S. clergyman and abolitionist.
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How to use garnet in a sentence
She travels to what she calls “power places” and brings back tiny fragments from those places to put in every painting or sculpture that calls for them, including copper, silver, turquoise, garnet, prayer ashes, and minute crystal prayer beads.
Baltimore’s ‘Visionary’ curator prepares to step down | Ed Gunts | September 23, 2021 | Washington BladeIt’s more of a ruby or garnet than a true red, but it’s nice to see someone paint outside the box.
Vermont’s garnet will contact the state health department and call the individual to recommend a PCR, to make sure the rapid test result was not a false positive.
Here’s what you need to know about getting a coronavirus test at the airport | Andrea Sachs | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostEven garnet's gyro wrap is made with McLane farms seasoned lamb.
Spaghetti for Breakfast?! Not So Crazy at This Idaho Farm Café | Jane & Michael Stern | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe garnet Café, named for Idaho's state gem, really is precious.
Spaghetti for Breakfast?! Not So Crazy at This Idaho Farm Café | Jane & Michael Stern | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Sweet potatoes with orange flesh—garnet and Jewel types, for example—are too moist.
Before each guest stood a tiny glass that looked and sparkled like a garnet gem.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinShe could compare it to nothing she had ever seen, and the garnet lights which it emitted were unspeakably rare.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinHenry garnet, provincial of the Jesuits, executed for the gunpowder plot.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThomas garnet died; an English physician and chemist, and an author on chemistry, &c.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThe new universe which we were entering was made up principally of red, ruby, and garnet suns.
Urania | Camille Flammarion
British Dictionary definitions for garnet (1 of 2)
/ (ˈɡɑːnɪt) /
any of a group of hard glassy red, yellow, or green minerals consisting of the silicates of calcium, iron, manganese, chromium, magnesium, and aluminium in cubic crystalline form: used as a gemstone and abrasive. Formula: A 3 B 2 (SiO 4) 3 where A is a divalent metal and B is a trivalent metal
Origin of garnet
1Derived forms of garnet
- garnet-like, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for garnet (2 of 2)
/ (ˈɡɑːnɪt) /
nautical a tackle used for lifting cargo
Origin of garnet
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for garnet
[ gär′nĭt ]
Any of several common red, brown, black, green, or yellow minerals having the general chemical formula A3B2SiO8, where A is either calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), iron (Fe), or manganese (Mn) and B is either aluminum (Al), manganese, iron, chromium (Cr), or vanadium (V). Garnet crystals are dodecahedral in shape, transparent to semitransparent, and have a vitreous luster. They usually occur in metamorphic rocks but also occur in igneous and sedimentary rocks.
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