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Garget vs Garnet - What's the difference?

garget | garnet |

As nouns the difference between garget and garnet

is that garget is the throat while garnet is a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.

As an adjective garnet is

of a dark red colour.

garget

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) The throat.
    • (Chaucer)
  • An inflammation on a cow's udder.
  • A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite.
    • (Youatt)
  • (botany, obsolete) Pokeweed.

    • Derived terms

    * gargety

    Anagrams

    *tagger

    References

    *

    garnet

    English

    (wikipedia garnet)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) granate, from (etyl) grenate, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mineral) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 127:
    • How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=Lee A. Groat , title=Gemstones , volume=100, issue=2, page=128 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet , lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)}}
  • A dark red.
    • Derived terms
    * demantoid garnet * garnet berry * garnet brown * garnetiferous * garnierite * gooseberry garnet * mandarin garnet * tsavorite garnet * YAG
    See also
    (mineral) * allochroite * almandine * andradite * carbuncle * cinnamon stone * Colorado ruby * demantoid * essonite * grossularite * hessonite * melanite * ouvarovite * pyrope * rhodolite * spessartine * topazolite * tsavorite * uvarovite

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Of a dark red colour.
    • See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * argent ----