Jasper vs Jaspilite - What's the difference?
jasper | jaspilite |
(obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
(mineralogy) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
Jasperware pottery.
(UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
(US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
* 1975 , Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 122:
* 1968 , Charles Portis, True Grit , The Saturday Evening Post
In mineralogy terms the difference between jasper and jaspilite
is that jasper is an opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface while jaspilite is a compact siliceous rock resembling jasper.As nouns the difference between jasper and jaspilite
is that jasper is any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian while jaspilite is a compact siliceous rock resembling jasper.As a proper noun Jasper
is a given name derived from Persian, an English variant of Caspar.jasper
English
(wikipedia jasper)Etymology 1
From (etyl) jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from (etyl) iaspis, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Derived terms
* Jasper National Park * jasper opal * jasperated * jasperite * jasperize * jasperoid * jasperous * jasperware * jaspery * jaspidean * lavender jasper * xyloid jasperSee also
* jasperwareEtymology 2
From the male personal name Jasper .Noun
(en noun)- Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper .
- “That jasper ,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
- "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."
