Shatter vs Chalcedony - What's the difference?
shatter | chalcedony |
to violently break something into pieces.
to destroy or disable something.
to smash, or break into tiny pieces.
to dispirit or emotionally defeat
* 1984 Martyn Burke, The commissar's report, p36
* 1992 Rose Gradym "Elvis Cures Teen's Brain Cancer!" Weekly World News , Vol. 13, No. 38 (23 June, 1992), p41
* 2006 A. W. Maldonado, Luis Muñoz Marín: Puerto Rico's democratic revolution, p163
* Norris
(obsolete) To scatter about.
* Milton
(archaic) A fragment of anything shattered.
A form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.
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As nouns the difference between shatter and chalcedony
is that shatter is a fragment of anything shattered while chalcedony is a form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.As a verb shatter
is to violently break something into pieces.shatter
English
(wikipedia shatter)Verb
(en verb)- The miners used dynamite to shatter rocks.
- a high-pitched voice that could shatter glass
- The old oak tree has been shattered by lightning.
- to be shattered''' in intellect; to have '''shattered''' hopes, or a '''shattered constitution
- Your death will shatter him. Which is what I want. Actually, I would prefer to kill him.
- A CAT scan revealed she had an inoperable brain tumor. The news shattered Michele's mother.
- The marriage, of course, was long broken but Munoz knew that asking her for a divorce would shatter her.
- a man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humour
- Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
Noun
(en noun)- to break a glass into shatters
- (Jonathan Swift)
Anagrams
* * English ergative verbschalcedony
English
Noun
(chalcedonies)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.)}}