Associations to the word «Ruby»

RUBY, noun. A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.

RUBY, noun. (obsolete) A red spinel.

RUBY, noun. A deep red colour.

RUBY, noun. (uncountable) (printing) (UK) (dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.

RUBY, noun. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.

RUBY, noun. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.

RUBY, adjective. Of a deep red colour.

RUBY, verb. (transitive) (poetic) To make red; to redden.

RUBY, noun. A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.

RUBY, proper noun. A female given name.

RUBY, proper noun. A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.

RUBY, proper noun. A city in Alaska.

RUBY, proper noun. A ghost town in Arizona

RUBY, proper noun. A town in South Carolina.

RUBY, proper noun. A town in Wisconsin.

RUBY, proper noun. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.

RUBY, noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) A curry, short for Ruby Murray.

RUBY MURRAY, noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) A (meal of) curry.

RUBY PORT, noun. The cheapest and most extensively produced type of port, with a rich claret colour.

RUBY PORTS, noun. Plural of ruby port

RUBY SLIPPERS, noun. (idiomatic) valuable feature (of software etc) overlooked by the user

RUBY TIGER, noun. Phragmatobia fuliginosa, a moth of the family Arctiidae, found in Europe.

RUBY WEDDING, noun. A 40th wedding anniversary

RUBY, noun. A transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.

RUBY, noun. A transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers.

RUBY, noun. A deep and vivid red color.

RUBY, adjective. Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.