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Definition: Turquoise |
TurquoiseNoun1. A blue to gray green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate; blue turquoise is valued as a gemstone. 2. A shade of blue tinged with green. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "turquoise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of a torquoise,{sic} foretells you are soon to realize some desire which will greatly please your relatives. For a woman to have one stolen, foretells she will meet with crosses in love. If she comes by it dishonestly, she must suffer for yielding to hasty susceptibility in love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mining | A. A triclinic mineral, 1[CuAl6 (OH)8 (PO4 )4 .4H2 O] with Fe replacing Al toward chalcosiderite; forms waxy blue-green reniform masses having a botryoidal surface, rarely with minute crystals; occurs in arid regions where surface water acted on aluminous rock; may be a gemstone. Also spelled turquois. Syn:Turkey stone; calaite. b. The mineral group aheylite, chalcosiderite, coeruleolactite, faustite,planerite, and turquoise. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Turquoise is a blue opaque semi-precious gemstone. The highest grades are "robin's egg blue," or the color of the blue sky. Inferior grades are greenish. Turquoise which fades in color is also inferior. Turquoise is a phosphate of aluminium with small quantities of copper and iron. The gem is slightly harder than glass.
Turquoise pebble, one inch (2.5 cm) long. This pebble is greenish and therefore low grade.
Larger version
In ancient times, turquoise was used by the Egyptians and was mined by them in the Sinai Peninsula. There are important deposits in Iran near Nishapur and in the American Southwest. Turquoise was more or less the national stone of Persia and was used extensively to decorate objects. Turquoise is used by Native American craftsmen, especially Navaho silversmiths.
Turquoise, along with coral is used extensively in the jewelry of Tibet and Mongolia. Turquoise is found in China and mined for the export trade, but not used for jewelry. A few carvings exist done in the same manner as jade carvings.
Further Reading
See also: List of minerals
- Turquoise, Volume XII, Part II, Second Memoir, Third Memoir, Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Joseph E. Pogue, The Rio Grande Press, Glorieta, New Mexico, hardback reprint, about 200 pages, ISBN 0-87380-056-7
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Turquoise."
Synonyms: TurquoiseSynonyms: aqua (n), aquamarine (n), cobalt blue (n), greenish blue (n), peacock blue (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jewelry | Diamond, brilliant, rock; beryl, emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol, girasole; onyx, plasma; sard, sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, peridot, tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; balais; oriental, oriental topaz; turquois, turquoise; zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst; alexandrite, cat's eye, bloodstone,diamond, brilliant, rock; beryl, emerald; chalcedony, agate, heliotrope; girasol, girasole; onyx, plasma; sard, sardonyx; garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, peridot, tourmaline, chrysolite; sapphire, ruby, synthetic ruby; spinel, spinelle; balais; oriental, oriental topaz; turquois, turquoise; zircon, cubic zirconia; jacinth, hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst; alexandrite, cat's eye, bloodstone, hematite, jasper, moonstone, sunstone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Turquoise |
| English words defined with "turquoise": Calaite, Chalchihuitl ♦ Odontolite ♦ Turkois. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "turquoise": Aztec stone ♦ callainite, chalchuite, crystal habit ♦ Jewels ♦ Mexican turquoise, mineral turquoise ♦ reconstructed turquoise, rock turquoise ♦ synthetic stone ♦ Vienna turquoise. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "turquoise": Turkeis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Turquoise" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (turquoise). |
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Screenplays | No one can stand playing with you. You're bad, you get taco sauce all over the cards, and at this point you're down so much, you're paying people in turquoise jewelry (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
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| "Turquoise water" by Wendy Cain Commentary: "An amazing setting just south of Christchurch, NZ. The glacier water makes the water turqoise, a little town called Tekapo." |
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Economic History | Rwanda | They deployed throughout southwest Rwanda in an area they called "Zone Turquoise," quelling the genocide and stopping the fighting there. (references) |
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| "Turquoise" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 70.37% of the time. "Turquoise" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 70.37% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.85% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.78% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 108 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "turquoise": bone turquoise ♦ turquoise blue ♦ turquoise green. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "turquoise": turquoise-and-gold, turquoise-coloured, turquoise-creased, turquoise-striped. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "turquoise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngjyrë e bruztë, bruz. (various references) | |
Arabic | فيروز, لون فيروزي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тюркоаз. (various references) | |
Chinese | 绿松石. (various references) | |
Czech | tyrkysový, tyrkys. (various references) | |
Danish | tyrkis. (various references) | |
Dutch | turkoois. (various references) | |
Farsi | گشتن (Go, Goggle, Grow, Roam, Roll, Search, Swirl, Troll, Trundle), دگرگون ساختن قرقره , استعداد (Amplitude, Aptitude, Aptness, Art, Brilliance, Caliber, Capacity, Genius, Gift, Ingenuity, Knack, Liability, Property, Shift, Tendency, Verve), سولفات قلیاءی الومینیوم , تبدیل کردن (Commute, Transform, Transmute), تاه زدن (Fold, Plait), تغییردادن (Affect, Alter, Change, Interchange, Modify, Permute, Vary), تغییرجهت (Shift), تمایل (Gust, Hang, Inclination, List, Pendulum, Preoccupation, Sentiment, Streak, Tendency, Tenor, Tilt, Vein, Would, Yen), برگرداندن (Convert, Evoke, Rebut, Reflect, Refract, Regurgitate, Repay, Retort, Return, Reverse, Upset, Vomit), گشت ماشین تراش , گرداندن (Inflect, Manage, Operate, Operation, Wheel, Wrest), چرخ (Axle, Cart, Cycle, Loop, Rhomb, Wheel), چرخش (Evolution, Gyration, Revolution, Roll, Swirl, Troll, Tumble, Twirl, Wheel, Whirl, Wrench, Wrest), چرخیدن (Pivot, Reel, Revolve, Rollup, Rotate, Swing, Trill, Troll, Trundle, Twirl, Wheel, Whirl, Windmill, Wry), نوبت (Heat, Inning, Period, Shift, Tour), میل (Bar, Delight, Desire, Goo, List, Perch, Ramrod, Rod, Stanchion, Stomach, Streak, Tendency, Will, Zest), پیچ خوردگی (Rick, Screw, Torsion, Twist), پیچاندن (Contort, Crinkle, Curl, Reeve, Screw, Twitch, Waggle, Wrest, Wring), وارونه کردن (Cant, Convert, Reverse, Turnout, Turnover). (various references) | |
Finnish | turkoosi. (various references) | |
French | turquoise. (various references) | |
German | türkis. (various references) | |
Greek | κάλαϊσ, γαλάζιος (azure), τυρκουάζ, τουρκουάζ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ירוק כחלחל, טורקיז, נופך (garnet, makeweight). (various references) | |
Hungarian | türkizkék, türkiz (turkey stone). (various references) | |
Italian | turchese. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | トリパノソーマ症 (sleeping sickness, toluene, torque, torque converter, tribune, trilemma, trill, trim, trimmer, trimming, triple, triple crown, triple jump, triple play, trivia, trivialism, trooper, truffle, trypanosoma, trypanosomiasis, Turkey), トルコ石 , ソ連 (Russia, Soviet Union, tar, target, term, terminal, terminal building, terminal care, terminator, turban, turbine, turbo, turbocharger, zombie, zone, Zoroaster). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トルコいし, トルコ (Turkey), ターコイズ . (various references) | |
Korean | 터키석. (various references) | |
Manx | turcaid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urquoisetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | turquesa. (various references) | |
Romanian | peruzea. (various references) | |
Russian | бирюзовый цвет, бирюза бирюзовый, бирюза (turquoises). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tirkizan, tirkiz. (various references) | |
Spanish | turquesa. (various references) | |
Swedish | turkos. (various references) | |
Turkish | turkuaz (turquoise blue, turquoise green), firuze. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бірюза. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turquoise": turquoises. (additional references) | |
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"Turquoise" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: terquoise, tirquoise, tourquoise, turqioise, turqoise, turqoiuse, turquiose. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-q-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: sequitur, turquois. | |
-2 letters: querist, questor, quietus, quoters, roquets, stourie, torques. | |
-3 letters: ouster, outers, quiets, quires, quirts, quoits, quoter, quotes, risque, roques, roquet, routes, sortie, souter, squire, squirt, stoure, suiter, suitor, suture, toques, tories, torque, triose, tuques, uterus. | |
-4 letters: etuis, euros, osier, ourie, outer, outre, quest, quiet, quire, quirt, quite, quits, quoit, quote, riots, rites. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-q-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: soubriquet, turquoises. | |
+2 letters: soubriquets, tourniquets, triquetrous. | |
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