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Definitions: Lapidary |
LapidaryAdjective1. Of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them; "the ring is of no lapidary value"- Lord Byron; "lapidary art". Noun1. An expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them. 2. A skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lapidary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemistry | A workman who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones other than diamonds. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. An artificer who cuts, polishes, or engraves gems or precious stones. b. Person who is skilled in the nature and kind of gems or preciousstones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. (references) |
Occupations | Cuts, shapes, and polishes precious and synthetic gems: Positions rough stone in holder and holds stone against edge of revolving saw or lapidary slitter impregnated with diamond dust to cut and slit stone. Removes cut stone and places it in lapidary stick. Selects shaping wheel and applies abrasive compound. Holds lapidary stick against revolving shaping wheel and lapidary disk to further shape stone and grind facets. Examines stone for accuracy of cut, using magnifying glass. Polishes stone, using felt or canvas-covered polishing wheel, and polishing compounds, such as tripoli or rouge. May use mechanical facet-cutting device. May cut and polish diamonds for industrial purposes and be designated Industrial-Diamond Polisher (jewelry-silver.). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sculpting in stone, architectural stone, and preparing laboratory 'thin sections' may be considered lapidary arts though the term is most commonly associated with jewelry and decorative household items. (bookends, clock faces, ornaments, etc.)
At present most lapidary work is accomplished using motorized equipment and resin or metal bonded diamond tooling in successively decreasing particle sizes until a polish is achieved.
Diamond cutting because of the extreme hardness of diamonds is a specialized field that uses different techniques from lapidary.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lapidary."
Synonyms: LapidarySynonyms: lapidarist (n), lapidist (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Engraving | Lapidary. |
Lapidary, lapidarian. | |
Jewelry | Lapidary, lapidarian. |
Smoothness | Lapidary. |
Lapidary, lapidarian. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lapidary |
| English words defined with "lapidary": Bort ♦ Lapidaries, Lapidary style. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lapidary": Autolycus. (references) |
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Samuel Johnson | In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. |
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| "Lapidary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Lapidary" is used about 7 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) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.86% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lapidary": lapidary art ♦ lapidary inscription ♦ Lapidary style. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lapidary equipment | 297 |
lapidary | 258 |
lapidary supply | 102 |
lapidary journal | 64 |
lapidary saw | 17 |
lapidary tool | 16 |
lapidary rough | 9 |
lapidary equipment and supply | 8 |
lapidary machine | 7 |
lapidary services | 6 |
lapidary blade | 6 |
lapidary grit | 6 |
lapidary newsletter | 5 |
lapidary school | 5 |
lapidary equipment by diamond pacific | 4 |
lapidary wholesale | 4 |
drill gem lapidary | 3 |
lapidary equipment expando drum | 3 |
grave lapidary | 3 |
lapidary site | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "lapidary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i gdhendur në gur, gurpunues, gdhendës gurësh të çmuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صاقل الحجارة الكريمة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сбит (agglomerate, brief, compact, compendious, concise, epigrammatic, firm, open, serried, succinct, summary, terse, thick, tight), шлифоване на скъпоценни камъни, гравьор (engraver, graver), гравиране на скъпоценни камъни, гравиран на камък, лапидарен, продавач на скъпоценни камъни, познавач на скъпоценни камъни, издълбан на камък. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vrytý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lapidaire (lap, lapidarist, lapidist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lapidar (succinct), kurz und bündig (terse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λιθόγλυφοσ, λιθοχαράκτησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לטש י"לומים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vésnök (engraver, graver, metal engraver, sinker), kõ-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lapidario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apidarylay lapela (buttonhole, lappet), joalheiro (goldsmith, jewelers, jeweller, jewellery, silversmith), gravador em pedra. (various references) lapidar (compact), concis (brief, compact, compendious, concise, curt, gnomic, laconic, laconically, short, shortly, terse), şlefuitor de giuvaere. (various references) краткий (brief, compendious, concise, curt, recapitulatory, short, short winded, short-form, succinct, terse, thumb-nail), гранильный, гранильная работа, лапидарный. (various references) lapidaran, urezan u kamenu, sažet (compendious, concise, contractive, laconic, succinct, terse), rezač dragog kamenja, knjiga o dragom kamenju, kamenorezac (stonecutter). (various references) lapidario. (various references) lapidarisk, stenslipare, sten- (calculous, metalled, petrous, stone, stony), ädelstens-. (various references) เกี่ยวกับการเจียรนัยพลอย, ช่างเจียรนัยพลอย. (various references) taşa işlenmiş, taş (allusion, calculus, concretion, dig, Flint, gem, gibe, gravel, hit, innuendo, jeer, jibe, piece, rock, stone), oymacı (carver, engraver, etcher, sculptor, wood engraver), mücevher ustası, kitabe gibi, elmas kesici, özlü (brief, capsule, compact, concise, juicy, laconic, loamy, lush, meaty, pithy, pulpy, racy, sappy, sententious, starchy, substantial, succinct, succulent, terse). (various references) стислий (compact, compendious, concise, condensed, pithy, succinct, tabloid, telegraphic, terse), гранувальник коштовних каменів, гранувальний, лапідарний. (various references) thợ m i. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lapidarrius. (various references) |
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"Lapidary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lapidarin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lapidary" (pronounced la"pude'rē) |
| 5 | -u d e' r ē | dromedary. |
| 4 | -d e' r ē | legendary, secondary, semilegendary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secretary, sedentary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-l-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: airplay, pyralid, rapidly. | |
-2 letters: apiary, aridly, parlay, piraya, radial. | |
-3 letters: alary, aliya, daily, dairy, diary, drail, drily, laari, laird, lardy, liard, lidar, lyard, padri, pardi, pardy, pilar, plaid, playa, rapid, riyal, yaird. | |
-4 letters: airy, alar, aria, arid, aril, aryl, dial, dirl, dray, drip, idly, idyl, lady, laid, lair, lard, lari, liar, lipa, lira, padi, paid, pail, pair, paly, para, pard, pial, pily, play, pray, raia, raid, rail, raya, rial, yald, yard, yird. | |
-5 letters: aal, aid, ail, air, ala, alp, dal, dap, day, dip, dry, lad, lap, lar, lay, lid, lip, pad, pal, par, pay, pia, ply, pry, pya, rad, rap, ray, ria, rid, rip, rya, yap, yar, yid, yip. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-l-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: pyramidal. | |
+3 letters: bipyramidal, disparately, drapability, pyramidally, pyramidical. | |
+4 letters: drapeability, sporadically. | |
+5 letters: aperiodically, digraphically, disparagingly, paradoxically, rhapsodically, spreadability, upgradability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 70 69 64 61 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- .--. .. -.. .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110000 01101001 01100100 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a p i d a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0070 0069 0064 0061 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667827570678491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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