different between jasper vs agate

English

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: j?s?p?r
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?æsp?/

Etymology 1

From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (íaspis).

Noun

jasper (countable and uncountable, plural jaspers)

1. (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
2. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
3. Jasperware pottery.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• jasperware

Verb

jasper (third-person singular simple present jaspers, present participle jaspering, simple past and past participle jaspered)

1. (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

Etymology 2

From the male personal name Jasper.

Noun

jasper (plural jaspers)

1. (Britain, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
2. (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
   • 1957, Meredith Willson, "Ya Got Trouble", The Music Man:

     And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!

   • 1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:

     Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 122:

     “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”

   • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit, The Saturday Evening Post

     "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."

Anagrams

• japers

French

Verb

jasper

1. apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone

   Jasper la tranche d’un livre.

Conjugation

Further reading

• “jasper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.??t/
• Rhymes: -æ??t

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 5+¹?₂-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.

Synonyms

• (type size): (UK) ruby
• (marble): aggie

Hyponyms

• (mineralogy): fortification agate, Scotch pebble; moss agate, clouded agate

Derived terms

• moss agate
• agate line
• agateware

Related terms

• aggie

Translations

Etymology 2

a- (“on”) +? gate (“way”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???æt/

Adverb

agate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) On the way; agoing.

   to be agate; to set the bells agate

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *anate, from Latin anatem (“duck”).

Pronunciation

• (Biscayan) IPA^(key): /a.?a.te/

Noun

agate inan

1. (Biscayan) Alternative form of ahate.

Esperanto

Adverb

agate

1. present adverbial passive participle of agi

French

Noun

agate m (plural agates)

1. agate

Further reading

• “agate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ido

Verb

agate

1. adverbial present passive participle of agar

Italian

Noun

agate f

1. plural of agata

Mezquital Otomi

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ágata, from Old French agathe, from Latin achates, from Ancient Greek ?????? (akhát?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??áte/

Noun

?gáte

1. agate

References

• Hernández Cruz, Luis; Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)?^[1] (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 3