Ruby and Cardinal

noun

• A transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem.
• A transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers.
• A deep and vivid red color.
  • synonyms: crimson, deep red

adjective

• Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
  • synonyms: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby-red, scarlet

• (n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
• (n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
• (n.) See Agate, n., 2.
• (v.t.) To make red; to redden.
• (n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
• (n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
• (a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.

• French: Jewel
• English, Latin: A Ruby Jewel
• Latin: A red, ruby jewel

noun

• Roman Catholic Church. ( one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes)
• The number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order.
  • synonyms: cardinal number
• A variable color averaging a vivid red.
  • synonyms: carmine
• Crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male.
  • synonyms: cardinal grosbeak, Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird

adjective

• Serving as an essential component.
  • usage: "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
  • synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal
• Being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order.
  • usage: "cardinal numbers"

• (a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council or the sacred college.
• (a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
• (a.) Mulled red wine.
• (a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.