What is the difference between agate and onyx?
agate | onyx |
(countable, uncountable, mineral) 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.
(uncountable, US, printing) 5.5-point size of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
(countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
(countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
(slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
(obsolete) On the way; agoing.
(mineralogy) A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
jet-black
* , Genesis, 2:12
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=, title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/7/2
, passage=There was no moon, only stars set brilliantly in the soft black onyx of the sky?: a black night and very silent on Cimiez?; and a black and silent prospect from the verandah
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As nouns the difference between agate and onyx
is that agate is 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 while onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.As an adverb agate
is on the way; agoing.As an adjective onyx is
jet-black.agate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) agathe, from (etyl) .Noun
Synonyms
* (printing) ruby (Britain)Hyponyms
* (mineralogy) fortification agate, Scotch pebble; moss agate, clouded agateDerived terms
* moss agate * agate line * agatewareEtymology 2
Adverb
(-)- to be agate'''; to set the bells '''agate
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onyx
English
(wikipedia onyx)Noun
Adjective
(-)- And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
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