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UK
/dʒˈɛm/
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[ US /ˈdʒɛm/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɛm/ ]
NOUN
- a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry
- a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry
- art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
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a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry
he had the gem set in a ring for his wife
she had jewels made of all the rarest stones - a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
How To Use gem In A Sentence
- Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
- Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
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- Gemma had studied for her A levels, whilst performing on tour.
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- He appealed to all householders to continually check their security arrangements.
- All he could do was try different arrangements of transmitter and receiver. SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
- Under this arrangement, the men of each village were organized into ‘tithings ' and expected to answer for each other's good behaviour.
- The chancellor has declined to alter the co-determination of company decisions exercised by management and labor jointly.
- A wistful little architectural songwriting gem. Times, Sunday Times