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Garnet vs Carnet - What's the difference?

garnet | carnet |

As nouns the difference between garnet and carnet

is that garnet is a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives while carnet is a customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article.

As an adjective garnet

is of a dark red colour.

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 ----

    carnet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) A customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Jim Hudgens et al., The Rough Guide to West Africa citation
    • , passage=If you plan to sell your car, of course, a carnet is the last thing you need: if the vehicle isn't correctly stamped in and out of each country you'll lose your deposit.}}
  • A collection of travel tickets in the form of a booklet that is sold at a discount
  • * If you think you're going to use more than ten single trip tickets within Zone 1 in a twelve month period, you can buy a carnet of ten tickets for £17 - your cost per journey reduces from £2 down to £1.70.

    • Anagrams

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