What is the difference between gem and jewel?
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A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
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(figuratively) any precious or highly valued thing or person
Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
(obsolete) a gemma or leaf-bud
* Denham
a type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata
(computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
* {{quote-book, year=1827, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven
* {{quote-book, year=1872, author=J. Fenimore Cooper, title=The Bravo, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Above was the firmament, gemmed with worlds, and sublime in immensity. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=John Freeman, title=Poems New and Old, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The rain Shook from fruit bushes in new showers again As I brushed past, and gemmed the window pane. }}
A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.
* ante'' 1611 , (William Shakespeare), '', lines 188–9:
(figuratively) Anything considered precious or valuable.
* Shakespeare
A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
(slang) The clitoris.
* 2008 , Another Time, Another Place: Five Novellas
To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
Jewel is a synonym of gem.
In figuratively terms the difference between gem and jewel
is that gem is any precious or highly valued thing or person while jewel is anything considered precious or valuable.As nouns the difference between gem and jewel
is that gem is a precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine while jewel is a precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.As verbs the difference between gem and jewel
is that gem is to adorn with, or as if with, gems while jewel is to bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.As proper nouns the difference between gem and jewel
is that gem is a native or resident of the American state of Idaho while Jewel is {{given name|female|from=English}} from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century.gem
English
(gemstone)Noun
(en noun)- (Milton)
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- She's an absolute gem .
- a gem of wit
- From the joints of thy prolific stem / A swelling knot is raised called a gem .
Synonyms
* (precious stone) gemstone, jewel, precious stone; see alsoVerb
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Noun
(en noun)- Iachimo: 'Tis plate of rare device, and jewels / Of rich and exquisite form, their values great.
- our prince (jewel of children)
- The area between her eyebrows wrinkled with the increasing circular motions her two fingers made on her jewel .