Gold

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  • noun. A soft, yellow, corrosion-resistant element, the most malleable and ductile metal, occurring in veins and alluvial deposits and recovered by mining, panning, or sluicing. A good thermal and electrical conductor, gold is generally alloyed to increase its strength, and it is used as a common monetary standard, in jewelry, for decoration, and as a plated coating on a wide variety of electrical and mechanical components. Atomic number 79; atomic weight 196.967; melting point 1,064.2°C; boiling point 2,856.0°C; specific gravity 19.3; valence 1, 3. cross-reference: Periodic Table.
  • noun. Coinage made of this element.
  • noun. A gold standard.
  • noun. Money; riches.
  • noun. A light olive-brown to dark yellow, or a moderate, strong to vivid yellow.
  • noun. Something regarded as having great value or goodness.
  • noun. A medal made of gold awarded to one placing first in a competition, as in the Olympics.
  • adjective. Having the color of gold.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Chemical symbol, Au; atomic weight, 196.7. A precious metal remarkable on account of its unique and beautiful yellow color, luster, high specific gravity, and freedom from liability to rust or tarnish when exposed to the air.
  • noun. Hence, figuratively Money; riches; wealth.
  • noun. Anything very valuable or highly prized; anything regarded as very precious, or as of pure or sterling quality.
  • noun. A bright-yellow color, like that of the metal gold; also, gilding: as, a flower edged with gold.
  • noun. In archery, the exact center of the target, so called because marked with gold, or of a gold color; hence, a shot that strikes the center: as, to secure a gold.
  • noun. [English dial. also goolds (ef. Sc. gool, gule, gules, the corn-marigold), ⟨ ME. gold, goold, guld, merely a particular use of gold, the metal. Cf. marigold.] The marigold, Calendula officinalis.
  • noun. Tho corn-marigold, Chrysanthemum segetum.
  • noun. The turnsol; heliotrope.
  • noun. A sulphid of tin, the aurum musivum of the ancients.
  • Made of, consisting of, or like gold; golden; gilded: as, a gold chain; gold color.
  • Thin plates of gilded metal, especially of yellow metal or brass gilded.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.
  • noun. A metallic element of atomic number 79, 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 (melting point 1064.4° C), moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.97.
  • noun. Money; riches; wealth.
  • noun. A yellow color, like that of the metal.
  • noun. Figuratively, something precious or pure.
  • noun. See Golden age, under Golden.
  • noun. etc. See under Dutch, Dust, etc.
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  • noun. a mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury.
  • noun. one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf.
  • noun. the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating.
  • noun. any small gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ; -- called also golden beetle.
  • noun. printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block.
  • noun. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth.
  • noun. a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa.
  • noun. See Cradle, n., 7.
  • noun. the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing.
  • noun. a fragment of broken gold or jewelry.
  • noun. An itinerant jeweler.
  • noun. a popular mania for gold hunting.
  • noun. a region in which are deposits of gold.
  • noun. One who empties privies.
  • noun. a composite plant with dry and persistent yellow radiating involucral scales, the Helichrysum Stœchas of Southern Europe. There are many South African species of the same genus.
  • noun. thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and others. See Gold leaf.
  • noun. buttercups.
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  • noun. a kind of lace, made of gold thread.
  • noun. a thin plate of gold or gilded metal.
  • noun. gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil.
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