ivory

تعريف ivory في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: The teeth; Resembling or having the colour of ivory; The hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals; Something made from or resembling ivory; Made of ivory; The keys of a piano; A creamy white colour, the colour of ivory
ivory colour:.; The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc; {i} hard white substance which makes up the tusks of elephants and other animals; something made from ivory; elephant tusk; yellowish white color; tooth (Slang); The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant; Decorated and plain ivory, from the tusks of animals such as elephant, mammoth, and walrus, has been found from the upper Palaeolithic; {s} of or like ivory, made of ivory; creamy white; Decorated and plain ivory – from the tusks of animals such as elephant, mammoth, and walrus – has been found from the upper Palaeolithic; a shade of white the color of bleached bones; Ivory is a hard cream-coloured substance which forms the tusks of elephants. It is valuable and can be used for making carved ornaments. the international ban on the sale of ivory; Spiritual protection; Color also known as cream, ecru or eggshell; a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses; Any carving executed in ivory; Ivory is a creamy-white colour. Hard white substance, a variety of dentin, that makes up the tusks of such animals as elephants, walruses, and preserved mammoths. It is prized for its beauty, durability, and suitability for carving. In ancient times it was treasured as highly as gold and precious stones. Most ivory used commercially once came from Africa; sales of ivory declined in the 20th century as the populations of African elephants shrank, and worldwide concern about endangered elephant populations have led to bans on the export and import of ivory. The once-thriving markets of Europe have shifted to South Asia, where skilled artisans, often trading illegally, carve ivory into figurines and other objects. Ivory Coast ivory carving Ivory James Francis ivory billed woodpecker; It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility; Teeth; as, to show one's ivories; n gading; It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure; a variable color averaging a pale yellow
ivory tower: A sheltered, overly-academic existence or perspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness of reality or practical considerations
Hamilton College is an ivory tower with an open bar, and so I - who work and play equally hard - have come to love this place, and have been dead-set against leaving it.
ivory towers: plural form of ivory tower
ivory black: A black pigment prepared from charred ivory
ivory black: a black pigment made from grinding burnt ivory in oil
ivory black: {i} black pigment made from scorched ivory
ivory carving: Carving of ivory into decorative or utilitarian objects. It has flourished since prehistoric times. Most Stone Age carvings have been found in southern France, in the forms of small nude female figures and animals. A masterpiece of early Egyptian carving is an ivory statuette of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid. In China ivory carvings have been found in the tombs of the Shang dynasty (18th-12th century BC). The major artistic use of ivory in Japan was for netsukes, toggles used as fasteners on men's clothing. The early Inuit (Eskimos) produced such utilitarian objects as harpoon shafts and bucket handles out of ivory and often etched them with geometric or curving patterns. See also scrimshaw
ivory castle: inaccessible place, place that is withdrawn from the everyday world
ivory coast: a republic in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; one of the most prosperous and politically stable countries in Africa
ivory coast franc: the basic unit of money in the Ivory Coast
ivory gull: white arctic gull; migrates as far south as England and New Brunswick
ivory nut: nutlike seed of a South American palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e
ivory nut: buttons
ivory nut: The seed of the ivory palm, having bony endosperm that is used as a substitute for true ivory
ivory palm: A stemless, unarmed dioecious palm (Phytelephas macrocarpa) native to Brazil and Peru and having hard seeds that yield an ivorylike substance
ivory palm: a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts
ivory tower: a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place; "he lived in the ivory tower of speculation"; "they viewed universities as ivory towers
ivory tower: place withdrawn from the troubles and pressures of everyday life, attitude of aloofness
ivory tower: disapproval If you describe someone as living in an ivory tower, you mean that they have no knowledge or experience of the practical problems of everyday life. They don't really, in their ivory towers, understand how pernicious drug crime is. A place or attitude of retreat, especially preoccupation with lofty, remote, or intellectual considerations rather than practical everyday life. a place or situation where you are separated from the difficulties of ordinary life and so are unable to understand them, used especially to describe a college or university
ivory tree: tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea
ivory white: creamy white
ivory-billed woodpecker: Black-and-white woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) with a flaring crest (red on the male) and a long whitish bill. The largest North American woodpecker, it is thought to be extinct, though there were unconfirmed sightings of the bird in the southern United States in the late 1990s; a small population on Cuba was last seen in the late 1980s. Its decline coincided with the logging of virgin forest, where it subsisted on deadwood insects. A subspecies, the Cuban ivory-billed woodpecker, is also believed to be extinct. A related species, the imperial woodpecker of Mexico, is critically endangered. All these birds appear to have required large trees and isolation from disturbance
ivories: plural form of ivory
sea ivory: Ramalina siliquosa, a species of lichen
vegetable ivory: The nutlike seed of the South American tagua palm; used to make small items such as buttons
ıvory: {a} made of ivory
ıvory: {n} an elephant's tooth
ebony and ivory: {i} people of dark skin and light skin; black and white keys on a keyboard; colors of black and white
ivories: The teeth
ivories: The keys of a piano
ivories: plural of ivory
ivories: {i} (Slang) teeth; dice; keys of a piano
solid ivory: stupid, foolish, idiotic
vegetable ivory: A hard ivorylike material obtained from the ivory nut and used in making small objects such as buttons
vegetable ivory: nutlike seed of a South American palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e g buttons

ivory

الواصلة

i·vo·ry

التركية النطق

ayvri

النطق

/ˈīvrē/ /ˈaɪvriː/

علم أصول الكلمات

() From Anglo-Norman ivorie, from Old Northern French ivurie, from Latin eboreus 'in or of ivory', form ebur 'ivory', from Coptic ebu 'elephant', from Egyptian