ruby

«ruby» in Mova's school dictionary: a precious stone with a deep red colour, used in rings… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a ruby, rubies); adjective (ruby-red, ruby); proper noun (Ruby — a name; Ruby — a programming language)

meaning for a pupil

1) A ruby is a precious stone with a deep red colour, used in rings and necklaces. tree →

2) Ruby, or ruby-red, is a deep, rich red colour. tree →

3) (a name) Ruby is a girl's name. tree →

4) (computers) Ruby is a programming language. tree →

5) A ruby wedding anniversary is the 40th one. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography, rubies are a form of the mineral corundum, very hard, mined in places like Myanmar. In stories, rubies are treasure and jewels in crowns. In fairy tales, Dorothy's ruby slippers come from the film of The Wizard of Oz. Many girls in schools in the UK, Australia and NZ are called Ruby.

examples

• The queen's crown sparkled with rubies and diamonds. tree →
• Mum's ring has a small ruby in the middle. tree →
• Her lips were painted ruby red. tree →
• Dorothy clicked the heels of her ruby slippers. tree →
• Rubies are very hard; only diamonds are much harder. tree →
• My friend Ruby lives next door. tree →
• Grandma and Grandpa celebrated their ruby wedding — 40 years! tree →
• Rubies are dug out of the ground and then cut and polished. tree →
• The princess herself had a snow-white steed, decked with diamonds and rubies. tree →

note

Plural: rubies (y → ies). The name Ruby has a capital. Fact check: diamond is the hardest gem; ruby and sapphire (both corundum) are next, equally hard. Ruby is red; sapphire is the same mineral in other colours, mostly blue.

In the corpora

• Ruby thought that was cheating, but the letters are simply working as a team.
• Ruby in Christchurch didn't feed her rabbit because it was raining, and told Mum she had.
• Ruby cleaned the hutch on Saturday, said sorry, and fed him every day after.
• The first time Ruby didn't start it, the teacher never asked, and she thought she always could skip it.
• Ruby sulked — «It's not fair, everyone forgets sometimes!» — and wouldn't speak to Dad at tea.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ruby» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.