Found 4 items, similar to Rubies.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: ruby rubi
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: ruby batu delima
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ruby ruby adj : having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby-red, scarlet] ruby n 1: a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem 2: a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers 3: a deep and vivid red [syn: crimson, deep red]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Rubies Ruby \Ru"by\, n.; pl. Rubies. [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL. rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber. See Rouge, red.] 1. (Min.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum. [1913 Webster] Note: Besides the true or Oriental ruby above defined, there are the balas ruby, or ruby spinel, a red variety of spinel, and the rock ruby, a red variety of garnet. [1913 Webster] Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. [1913 Webster] The natural ruby of your cheeks. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle. [1913 Webster] 4. (Print.) See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] 5. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytol[ae]ma. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast. [1913 Webster] Ruby of arsenic, Ruby of sulphur (Chem.), a glassy substance of a red color and a variable composition, but always consisting chiefly of the disulphide of arsenic; -- called also ruby sulphur. Ruby of zinc (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende or sphalerite. Ruby silver (Min.), red silver. See under Red. [1913 Webster]