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What (who) is Agate - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
AGATE
Agate
.jpg?width=200 "Hollow agate")
![Agate drinking horn, [[Tang dynasty]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/唐-玛瑙兽首杯.jpg?width=200 "Agate drinking horn, [[Tang dynasty]]")
!["Turritella agate" (''[[Elimia tenera]]'')](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elimia fossils Wyoming.jpg?width=200 "\"Turritella agate\" (''[[Elimia tenera]]'')")
![order=flip}} barrel full of tumble-polished agate and [[jasper]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tumbled agate and jasper.jpg?width=200 "order=flip}} barrel full of tumble-polished agate and [[jasper]]")
![Gallo-Roman Museum (Tongeren)]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zegelring in goud met intaglio met portret van Commodus in nicolo, 180 tot 200 NC, vindplaats- Tongeren, de Schaetzengaarde 22, 1998, losse vondst (mogelijk goudschat), collectie Gallo-Romeins Museum Tongeren, GRM 1892.jpg?width=200 "Gallo-Roman Museum (Tongeren)]]")
![The "Rubens Vase" ([[Byzantine Empire]]). Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Byzantine - The "Rubens Vase" - Walters 42562.jpg?width=200 "The \"Rubens Vase\" ([[Byzantine Empire]]). Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.")
CHALCEDONY VARIETY
Cyclops (rock); Dendritic agates; Greek agate; Agates; Brazilian agate; Lace agate; Crazy lace agate; Crazy-lace agate; Holley blue agate; Holly blue agate; Holy blue agate
·adv On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
II. Agate ·noun A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
III. Agate ·noun A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
IV. Agate ·noun A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, ·etc.;
- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
V. Agate ·noun A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
agate
CHALCEDONY VARIETY
Cyclops (rock); Dendritic agates; Greek agate; Agates; Brazilian agate; Lace agate; Crazy lace agate; Crazy-lace agate; Holley blue agate; Holly blue agate; Holy blue agate
['ag?t]
¦ noun an ornamental stone consisting of a hard variety of chalcedony (quartz), typically banded in appearance.
Origin
C15: from Fr., via L. from Gk akhates.
agate
CHALCEDONY VARIETY
Cyclops (rock); Dendritic agates; Greek agate; Agates; Brazilian agate; Lace agate; Crazy lace agate; Crazy-lace agate; Holley blue agate; Holly blue agate; Holy blue agate
(agates)
Agate is a very hard stone which is used to make jewellery.
N-VAR
Wikipedia
Agate (disambiguation)
Agate is a semi-precious stone.
Agate may also refer to:
Examples of use of Agate
1. Retired midwife and peace activist Olivia Agate said the vans were dangerous and should not be used to transport prisoners.
2. Other investors in Agate include the Prisma investment firm, the Harel insurance company, Leumi & Co., and private American investors.
3. Leader Wednesday September 21, 2005 The Guardian Winston Churchill dubbed them the small agate points of history.
4. "Our officers did not return fire." Agate Alphonse was on her way to a shoe store when she passed a group of 10 to 15 people punching and grabbing one another, she said.
5. Using a Florentine technique called pietra dura (hard stone inlay) decoration, skilled craftsmen had created sprays or arabesque patterns of tulips, narcissus, irises, and poppies using various shades of lapis lazuli, turquoise, malachite, agate, jasper, carnelian, and jade.