gem

8 definitions found

gem - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gem \Gem\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gemmed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Gemming]
     1. To put forth in the form of buds. "Gemmed their blossoms."
        [R.] --Milton.
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     2. To adorn with gems or precious stones.
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     3. To embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed
        with dewdrops.
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              England is . . . gemmed with castles and palaces.
                                                    --W. Irving.
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  Gem \Gem\, n. [OE. gemme precious stone, F. gemme, fr. L. gemma
     a precious stone, bud.]
     1. (Bot.) A bud.
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              From the joints of thy prolific stem
              A swelling knot is raised called a gem. --Denham.
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     2. A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz,
        sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and
        polished for ornament; a jewel. --Milton.
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     3. Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits,
        which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or
        value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or
        wise saying.
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     Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass
        colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.
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gem - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gem
      n 1: art highly prized for its beauty or perfection [syn: gem,
           treasure]
      2: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry;
         "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels
         made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone,
         stone]
      3: a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of
         jewelry [syn: jewel, gem]
      4: a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: muffin,
         gem]
      5: a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of
         jewelry [syn: jewel, gem, precious stone]

gem - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  GEM
  
     <operating system> One of the first commercially available
     GUIs.  Borrowing heavily from the Macintosh WIMP-style
     interface it was available for both the IBM compatible
     market (being packaged with Amstrad's original PC series)
     and more successfully for the Atari ST range.  The PC
     version was produced by Digital Research (more famous for
     DR-DOS, their MS-DOS clone), and was not developed very
     far.  The Atari version, however, continued to be developed
     until the early 1990s and the later versions supported 24-bit
     colour modes, full colour icons and a nice looking sculpted
     3D interface.
  
     (1997-01-10)
  

gem - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  GEM
         Generalized Executive for realtime Multiprocessor applications
  (OS)
         

  GEM
         Graphics Environment Manager (DR, PC)
         

gem - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Gem, KS (city, FIPS 26050)
    Location: 39.42577 N, 100.89681 W
    Population (1990): 104 (47 housing units)
    Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 67734
  Gem, WV
    Zip code(s): 26335

gem - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "gem":
     Danish, Danish pastry, English muffin, Parker House roll,
     Yorkshire pudding, acceptable person, anklet, armlet, bagel,
     bangle, bead, beads, bejewel, beribbon, beset, bespangle, bialy,
     bialystoker, bijou, boast, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, bun,
     capital fellow, catch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, circle,
     clover-leaf roll, coffee cake, coronet, cream, crescent roll,
     croissant, cross bun, crown, crumpet, crystal, diadem, diamond,
     earring, elite, engrave, feather, figure, filigree, find, flag,
     flounce, flower, fob, garland, gem stone, gentleman, godsend,
     good fellow, good lot, good man, good person, good sort,
     good thing, good woman, hard roll, honest man, hot cross bun,
     ideal, illuminate, jewel, kaiser roll, lady, locket, marvel,
     masterpiece, mensch, muffin, necklace, nonpareil, nose ring,
     onion roll, paint, pearl, perfect gentleman, perfect lady,
     persona grata, pick, pin, pinwheel roll, plum, plume, popover,
     precious stone, pride, pride and joy, prince, prize, quintessence,
     real man, rhinestone, ribbon, right sort, ring, roll,
     rough diamond, scone, semiprecious stone, soft roll, spangle,
     stickpin, stone, tiara, tinsel, torque, treasure, trophy,
     trouvaille, wampum, windfall, winner, worthy, wreathe, wristband,
     wristlet