Ruby

See also ruby

English

Etymology

From the precious stone.

Proper noun

Ruby

1. A female given name.
   • 1992 Karen Kijewski, Kat's Cradle, page 76:

     And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body.

2. A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.

See also

• Ruby programming language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Ruby programming language

Translations

the female given name

• Maori: Rupi (mi)

• Marathi: रुबी (mr) (rubī) f
• Persian: روبی (fa) (Rubi)

the programming language

• Marathi: रुबी (mr) (rubī) f

• Persian: روبی (fa) (Rubi)

Noun

Ruby

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A curry, short for Ruby Murray.

   We're going down the Indian for a Ruby - wanna join us?

a curry

Anagrams

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