Garnet vs Garner - What's the difference?
garnet | garner |
(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:
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A dark red.
Of a dark red colour.
A granary; a store of grain.
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An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
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* 1913 , in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
* 1956 ,
(often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.
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* 1999 ,
(rare) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
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As a noun garnet
is (mineral) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives or garnet can be (nautical) a tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.As an adjective garnet
is of a dark red colour.As a proper noun garner is
.garnet
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(wikipedia garnet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) granate, from (etyl) grenate, from .Noun
(en noun)- How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
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Derived terms
* demantoid garnet * garnet berry * garnet brown * garnetiferous * garnierite * gooseberry garnet * mandarin garnet * tsavorite garnet * YAGSee also
(mineral) * allochroite * almandine * andradite * carbuncle * cinnamon stone * Colorado ruby * demantoid * essonite * grossularite * hessonite * melanite * ouvarovite * pyrope * rhodolite * spessartine * topazolite * tsavorite * uvaroviteAdjective
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*Etymology 2
Anagrams
* argent ----garner
English
Noun
(en noun)- That'' our garners ''may be'' full, affording all manner of store: ''that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
- Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner ; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Verb
(en verb)- I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.
- He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
- ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
- He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
- Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
- His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
- This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
- President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...
- For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;