different between spangle vs aventurine

English

Etymology

From Middle English spangel (“a small piece of ornamental metal; a small ornament”); equivalent to spang +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spæ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Noun

spangle (plural spangles)

1. A small piece of sparkling metallic material sewn on to a garment as decoration; a sequin.
2. Any small sparkling object.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, “Of and to the Queene”, lines 35--38:

     Thus, in a starry night, fond children cry
     For the rich spangles that adorn the sky,
     Which, though they shine for ever fixed there,
     With light and influence relieve us here.

3. The butterfly, Papilio demoleus, family Papilionidae, of Asia.
4. (obsolete, slang) Money. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

spangle (third-person singular simple present spangles, present participle spangling, simple past and past participle spangled)

1. (intransitive) To sparkle, flash or coruscate.
2. (transitive) To fix spangles to; bespangle; to adorn with stars

Derived terms

• bespangle
• spangled
• unspangled

Further reading

• spangle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pangles, Spangel, legspan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aventurine, from Italian avventurino, from avventurare (“to venture; to make lucky or prosperous”), from avventura (“chance; adventure, venture”) + -are (suffix forming the infinitive of most regular verbs), apparently so named because it was discovered by accident in Murano, Italy, when brass or copper filings were dropped into melted glass (see, however, the 1843 quotation).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?nt?????n/, /-tj??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?nt?????n/, /-i?n/
• Hyphenation: aven?tur?ine

Noun

aventurine (countable and uncountable, plural aventurines)

1. A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured spangles.

   Synonym: goldstone
2. (mineralogy, by extension) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

Alternative forms

• avanturine
• aventurin

Derived terms

• aventurescence
• aventurization

Translations

See also

• sunstone

References

Further reading

• aventurine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “aventurine”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Avanturine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database

Anagrams

• uninervate

French

Etymology

From aventure +? -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.v??.ty.?in/

Noun

aventurine f (plural aventurines)

1. aventurine

Further reading

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