Ruby
WordNet
adjective
(1) Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
noun
(2) A deep and vivid red color
(3) A transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
(4) A transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
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Proper noun
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- 1992 Karen Kijewski, Kat's Cradle, page 76:
- And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body.
- 1992 Karen Kijewski, Kat's Cradle, page 76:
- A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
Noun
- A curry, short for Ruby Murray.
- We're going down the Indian for a Ruby - wanna join us?