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What's The Definition Of Gold?
[n] a deep yellow color; "an amber light illuminated the room"; "he admired the gold of her hair"
[n] great wealth; "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice--almighty gold"--Ben Jonson [n] coins made of gold [n] a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [adj] having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [adj] made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons" Synonyms | Synonyms for Gold: amber | atomic number 79 | Au | aureate | chromatic | gilded | gilt | golden | metal(a) | metallic Related Terms | Find terms related to Gold: affluence | aluminum | americium | and pence | assets | aureate | aureateness | auric | bar | barium | beige | beryllium | bismuth | bottomless purse | brass | brassy | brazen | bronze | bronzy | buff | buff-yellow | bulging purse | bullion | cadmium | calcium | canary | canary-yellow | cash | cerium | cesium | chrome | chromium | circulating medium | citron | citron-yellow | cobalt | coin gold | coin silver | coinage | coined liberty | cold cash | copper | coppery | cream | creamy | cupreous | cuprous | currency | dollars | dysprosium | easy circumstances | ecru | embarras de richesses | emergency money | erbium | europium | fallow | fallowness | ferrous | ferruginous | filthy lucre | flaxen | fortune | fractional currency | gadolinium | gallium | germanium | gilded | gilt | gold nugget | gold-colored | golden | gold-filled | gold-plated | handsome fortune | hard cash | hard currency | high income | high tax bracket | holmium | independence | indium | ingot | iridium | iron | ironlike | lanthanum | lead | leaden | legal tender | lemon | lemon-yellow | lithium | lucre | luteolous | lutescent | lutetium | luxuriousness | magnesia | magnesium | mammon | managed currency | manganese | material wealth | medium of exchange | mercurial | mercurous | mercury | mintage | molybdenum | money | money to burn | moneybags | necessity money | neodymium | nickel | nickelic | nickeline | niobium | nugget | ocherish | ocherous | ochery | ochreous | ochroid | ochrous | ochry | opulence | opulency | or | osmium | palladium | pelf | pewter | pewtery | phosphorus | platinum | polonium | possessions | postage currency | postal currency | potassium | pounds | praseodymium | precious metals | primrose | primrose-colored | primrose-yellow | promethium | property | prosperity | prosperousness | protactinium | quicksilver | radium | rhenium | riches | richness | rubidium | ruthenium | saffron | saffron-colored | saffron-yellow | sallow | samarium | sand-colored | sandy | scandium | scrip | shillings | silver | silver-plated | silvery | six-figure income | sodium | soft currency | specie | steel | steely | sterling | straw | straw-colored | strontium | substance | tantalum | technetium | terbium | thallium | the almighty dollar | the wherewith | the wherewithal | thulium | tin | tinny | titanium | treasure | tungsten | upper bracket | uranium | vanadium | wealth | wealthiness | wolfram | xanthic | xanthous | yellow | yellow stuff | yellowish | yellowishness | yellowness | ytterbium | yttrium | zinc | zirconium See Also | atomic number 79 | Au | dental gold | gold | gold | gold dust | gold foil | gold leaf | graphic tellurium | green gold | guinea gold | noble metal | precious metal | riches | sylvanite | wealth | yellow | yellowness Gold In Webster's Dictionary \Gold\ (g[=o]ld), Golde \Golde\, Goolde \Goolde\
(g[=oo]ld), n. (Bot.)
An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold
({Calendula}), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps
the turnsole.
\Gold\ (g[=o]ld), n. [AS. gold; akin to D. goud, OS. & G. gold, Icel. gull, Sw. & Dan. guld, Goth. gul[thorn], Russ. & OSlav. zlato; prob. akin to E. yellow. [root]49, 234. See {Yellow}, and cf. {Gild}, v. t.] 1. (Chem.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7. Note: Native gold contains usually eight to ten per cent of silver, but often much more. As the amount of silver increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific gravity lower. Gold is very widely disseminated, as in the sands of many rivers, but in very small quantity. It usually occurs in quartz veins (gold quartz), in slate and metamorphic rocks, or in sand and alluvial soil, resulting from the disintegration of such rocks. It also occurs associated with other metallic substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined with tellurium in the minerals petzite, calaverite, sylvanite, etc. Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use, and is hardened by alloying with silver and copper, the latter giving a characteristic reddish tinge. [See {Carat}.] Gold also finds use in gold foil, in the pigment purple of Cassius, and in the chloride, which is used as a toning agent in photography. 2. Money; riches; wealth. For me, the gold of France did not seduce. --Shak. 3. A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold. 4. Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold. --Shak. {Age of gold}. See {Golden age}, under {Golden}. {Dutch gold}, {Fool's gold}, {Gold dust}, etc. See under {Dutch}, {Dust}, etc. {Gold amalgam}, a mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury. {Gold beater}, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. {Gold beater's skin}, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. {Gold beetle} (Zo["o]l.), any small gold-colored beetle of the family {Chrysomelid[ae]}; -- called also {golden beetle}. {Gold blocking}, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. --Knight. {Gold cloth}. See {Cloth of gold}, under {Cloth}. {Gold Coast}, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. {Gold cradle}. (Mining) See {Cradle}, n., 7. {Gold diggings}, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing. {Gold end}, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry. {Gold-end man}. (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. ``I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man.'' --B. Jonson. {Gold fever}, a popular mania for gold hunting. {Gold field}, a region in which are deposits of gold. {Gold finder}. (a) One who finds gold. (b) One who empties privies. [Obs. & Low] --Swift. {Gold flower}, a composite plant with dry and persistent yellow radiating involucral scales, the {Helichrysum St[oe]chas} of Southern Europe. There are many South African species of the same genus. {Gold foil}, thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and others. See {Gold leaf}. {Gold} {knobs or knoppes} (Bot.), buttercups. {Gold lace}, a kind of lace, made of gold thread. {Gold latten}, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal. {Gold leaf}, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil. {Gold lode} (Mining), a gold vein. {Gold mine}, a place where gold is obtained by mining operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf. {Gold diggings} (above). {Gold nugget}, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; -- called also a {pepito}. {Gold paint}. See {Gold shell}. {Gold or Golden}, {pheasant}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Pheasant}. {Gold plate}, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold. {Gold of pleasure}. [Name perhaps translated from Sp. oro-de-alegria.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Camelina}, bearing yellow flowers. {C. sativa} is sometimes cultivated for the oil of its seeds. {Gold shell}. (a) A composition of powdered gold or gold leaf, ground up with gum water and spread on shells, for artists' use; -- called also {gold paint}. (b) (Zo["o]l.) A bivalve shell ({Anomia glabra}) of the Atlantic coast; -- called also {jingle shell} and {silver shell}. See {Anomia}. {Gold size}, a composition used in applying gold leaf. {Gold solder}, a kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of gold, two of silver, and four of copper. {Gold stick}, the colonel of a regiment of English lifeguards, who attends his sovereign on state occasions; -- so called from the gilt rod presented to him by the sovereign when he receives his commission as colonel of the regiment. [Eng.] {Gold thread}. (a) A thread formed by twisting flatted gold over a thread of silk, with a wheel and iron bobbins; spun gold. --Ure. (b) (Bot.) A small evergreen plant ({Coptis trifolia}), so called from its fibrous yellow roots. It is common in marshy places in the United States. {Gold tissue}, a tissue fabric interwoven with gold thread. {Gold tooling}, the fixing of gold leaf by a hot tool upon book covers, or the ornamental impression so made. {Gold washings}, places where gold found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing. {Gold worm}, a glowworm. [Obs.] {Jeweler's gold}, an alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper. {Mosaic gold}. See under {Mosaic}. |
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