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Definition agate

Etymology 1

From Middle French agathe, from Latin achat?s, from Ancient Greek ?????? (akhát?s, “agate”).

Noun

agate (countable and uncountable, plural agates)

  1. (countable, uncountable, 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.
  2. (uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-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.

Etymology 2

a- (“on”) +‎ gate (“way”)

Adverb

agate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) On the way; agoing.


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