pierre — meaning in English
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English meaning
- jewel noun A precious stone, especially one cut and polished for use in jewellery.
- Peter verb To gradually decrease and come to nothing, especially followed by "out."
- rock noun A hard natural mineral material, or a piece of it such as a stone or boulder.
- stone noun A hard natural material, or a piece of it, such as rock or a pebble.
Senses
pierre is used for these senses in English:
- Peter (biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.
- jewel (horology) A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
- rock (uncountable) The naturally occurring aggregate of solid mineral matter that constitutes a significant part of the earth's crust.
- rock (rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- stone (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
- stone (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- stone (printing, historical) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.
jewel — full definition
- noun A precious stone, especially one cut and polished for use in jewellery.
- noun Something regarded as especially precious or admirable.
Peter — full definition
- verb To gradually decrease and come to nothing, especially followed by "out."
- noun Slang for a safe or strongbox, or, separately, for a prison cell.