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ruby

noun

  1. variety of corundum, mineral, gemstone
  2. color that is a representation of the color of the cut and polished ruby gemstone
L18385 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

  1. HTML element
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹuː.bi/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubi and rubine. Sense 7 (“pronunciation guide”) is from the British 5½-point type size (sense 6), used for annotations in printed documents.

  1. Of a deep, red color; ruby-red.

name

Etymology: The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century. The programming language was named after the gemstone.

  1. A female given name.

    “Ruby, my dear / Hold back that tear / I know he's gone / Your love has flown”

    “And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body.”

  2. A surname.
  3. A male given name.
  4. A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.

    “The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java.”

    “Ruby began life in Japan as the creation of Yukihiro Matsumoto, known more commonly as Matz. Unlike that of most language developers, Matz's motivation for Ruby was fun and a principle of “least surprise,” in order to improve overall developer productivity.”

  5. A city in Alaska.
  6. A ghost town in Arizona.
  7. A town in South Carolina.
  8. A town in Wisconsin.
  9. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
  10. A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

noun

Etymology: The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century. The programming language was named after the gemstone.

  1. A curry; ellipsis of Ruby Murray.

    “We're going down the Indian for a Ruby; wanna join us?”

    “No matter if you're Asian, Arab or Eskimo, everyone loves a ruby.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubi and rubine. Sense 7 (“pronunciation guide”) is from the British 5½-point type size (sense 6), used for annotations in printed documents.

  1. To make red; to redden.

    “With sanguine drops the walls are rubied”