Gemnoun詞源 1/d͡ʒɛm/

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  A native or resident of the American state of Idaho.

Gemname詞源 2/d͡ʒɛm/

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  A ghost town in California.

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  An unincorporated community in Indiana.

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  A city in Kansas.

Gemname詞源 3/d͡ʒɛm/

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  A diminutive of the female given name Gemma.

gemnoun/d͡ʒɛm/

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  A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.

  • And on her head she wore a tyre of gold, Adornd with gemmes and owches wondrous fayre, Whose passing price vneath was to be told;
  • Of six preceding ancestors, that gem, Conferr’d by testament to the sequent issue, Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife; That ring’s a thousand proofs.
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  Any precious or highly valued thing or person.

  • She's an absolute gem.
  • Standout “Hidden Knives” is the kind of new wave-leaning punk gem John Hughes would’ve loved, while “So Beneath You” is a teeth-baring, roiling tune.
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  Any precious or highly valued thing or person.

  • a gem of wit
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  Any precious or highly valued thing or person.

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  obsoleteA gemma or leaf bud.

  • c. 1668, John Denham (translator), Of Old Age by Cato the Elder, Part 3, in Poems and Translations, with The Sophy, London: H. Herringman, 4th edition, 1773, p. 35, Then from the Joynts of thy prolifick Stemm A swelling Knot is raised (call’d a Gemm)
  • Among the crooked Lanes, on every Hedge, / The Glow-Worm lights his Gem […].
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  A geometrid moth of the species Orthonama obstipata.

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  computingengineeringmathematicsA package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.

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  obsoletemediaprintingpublishingA size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.

gemverb/d͡ʒɛm/

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  To adorn with, or as if with, gems.

  • [T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.
  • A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven[…].

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