gold : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an alloy that contains 75 per cent gold
  

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• noun an alloy that contains 87 per cent gold
  

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• noun 100 per cent gold
  24-karat gold.
  

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• an alloy of 90.74 parts of copper and 8.33 parts of zink.

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• noun a particularly potent variety of marijuana
  Mexican green.
  

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• . See Golden age, under Golden.

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• noun low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States
  alpine hulsea; Hulsea algida.
  

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• a pale gold-colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.

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• standard gold. Obs. Fuller.

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• noun a widely distributed North American garden spider
  Argiope aurantia.
  

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• a fabric woven wholly or partially of threads of gold.

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• noun an alloy of gold used in dentistry
  

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• noun very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads
  Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia; golden glow; hortensia.
  

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• a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf.

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• etc. See under Dutch, Dust, etc.

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• (Mining), fine particles of metallic copper or of gold suspended in water, and thus liable to be lost.

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• noun a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color
  pyrite; iron pyrite.
  

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• iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color.

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• an explosive compound of gold; called also fulminating gold, and aurum fulminans.

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• (Bot.), buttercups.

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• . (Zoöl.) See under Pheasant.

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• a mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury.

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• one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf.

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• the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating.

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• (Zoöl.), any small gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ; called also golden beetle.

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• printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight.

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• noun trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains
  braiding; braid.
  

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• . See Cloth of gold, under Cloth.

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• noun a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea
  Ghana; Republic of Ghana.
  
  • Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British
• noun a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living; usually along a coastal area
  
  • Chicago's gold coast is along Lake Michigan

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• a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa.

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• . (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7.

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• noun a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
  gold miner; gold digger.
  
• noun a woman who associates with or marries a rich man in order to get valuables from him through gifts or a divorce settlement
  

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• the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing.

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• noun the particles and flakes (and sometimes small nuggets) of gold obtained in placer mining
  

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• a fragment of broken gold or jewelry.

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• noun fern of West Indies and South America having fronds with bright golden-yellow undersides
  Pityrogramma chrysophylla.
  

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• noun greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush
  

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• a popular mania for gold hunting.

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• a region in which are deposits of gold.

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• . (a) One who finds gold. (b) One who empties privies. Obs. & Low Swift.

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• a composite plant with dry and persistent yellow radiating involucral scales, the Helichrysum Stoechas of Southern Europe. There are many South African species of the same genus.

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• noun foil made of gold
  

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• thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and others. See Gold leaf.

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• a kind of lace, made of gold thread.

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• a thin plate of gold or gilded metal.

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• noun a very thin form of gold foil
  

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• gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil.

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• (Mining), a gold vein.

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• noun a trophy made of gold (or having the appearance of gold) that is usually awarded for winning first place in a competition
  

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• noun a good source of something that is desired
  goldmine.
  
• noun a mine where gold ore is found
  goldmine.
  

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• a place where gold is obtained by mining operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf. Gold diggings (above).

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• noun a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
  gold miner; gold digger.
  

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• a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; called also a pepito.

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• noun annual European false flax having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America
  Camelina sativa.
  

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• . 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.

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• . See Gold shell.

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• noun a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field
  gold miner; gold digger.
  

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• noun tableware that is plated with gold
  
• noun a thin plating of gold on something
  
• verb plate with gold
  goldplate; gold plate.
  
  • goldplate a watch

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• a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold. now usu. referring to objects made of a base metal with a layer of gold on the surface.

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• noun a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
  gravy; windfall; bunce; bonanza; boom; manna from heaven; godsend.
  
  • the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
• noun a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field
  

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• . (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) (Zoöl.) A bivalve shell (Anomia glabra) of the Atlantic coast; called also jingle shell and silver shell. See Anomia.

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• a composition used in applying gold leaf.

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• a kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of gold, two of silver, and four of copper.

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• noun a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold
  
• noun a paragon of excellence
  
  • academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged

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• 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.

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• . (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.

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• a tissue fabric interwoven with gold thread.

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• the fixing of gold leaf by a hot tool upon book covers, or the ornamental impression so made.

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• places where gold found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.

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• a glowworm. Obs.

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• adjective satellite containing gold
  auriferous.
  
  • auriferous quartz veins

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Gold"-beat`en adjective

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1. Gilded. Obs.

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• noun an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf
  goldbeater.
  

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Gold"-beat`ing noun

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1. The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

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Gold"-bound` adjective

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1. Encompassed with gold.

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• adjective satellite having the color of gold
  gold-colored.
  

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• adjective satellite having the color of gold
  gold-colored.
  

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• noun American golden-crested kinglet
  Regulus satrata.
  

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• . (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.

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Gold"-ham`mer noun

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1. The yellow-hammer.

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• verb plate with gold
  goldplate; gold plate.
  
  • goldplate a watch

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• noun white furry-bodied European moth with a yellow tail tuft
  Euproctis chrysorrhoea.
  

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• noun an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold
  goldsmith; goldworker.
  

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• noun a gold alloy (at least 14 karat gold with silver or silver and cadmium) that has a green appearance
  

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• noun brass with enough copper to give it a reddish tint; used for plumbing pipe and other brass hardware and in cheap jewelry
  red brass.
  
• noun 22-karat gold from which guinea coins were made
  

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• noun any of several Australasian evergreen vines widely cultivated in warm regions for their large bright yellow single flowers
  guinea flower.
  

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• an alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper. 18K gold

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• gold foil having a lining of another metal.

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Mann"heim gold"

Etymology

From Mannheim in Germany, where much of it was made.

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1. A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc. Ure.

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• noun a yellow pigment sometimes suspended in lacquer
  stannic sulfide.
  

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• . (a) See Ormolu. (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the alchemists aurum musivum, or aurum mosaicum. Called also bronze powder.

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• noun a dark yellow
  

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• noun reserve assets in the International Monetary Fund; designed to supplement reserves of gold and convertible currencies used to maintain stability in the foreign exchange market
  special drawing rights.
  

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• noun 100 per cent gold
  24-karat gold.
  

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• formerly a revenue of the queen consort of England, arising from gifts, fines, etc.

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• gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard.

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• etc., to treat earth or gravel, or crushed ore, with water, in order to separate the gold or other metal, or metallic ore, through their superior gravity.

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• noun a pale alloy of gold usually with platinum or nickel or palladium
  

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Yel"low-golds` noun

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1. (Bot.) A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.

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