Definitions for Pearl

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Pearl pearl

Spelling: [purl]

IPA: /pɜrl/

Pearl is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in Pearl (aelpr).

Definitions for Pearl

noun

1. a smooth, rounded bead formed within the shells of certain mollusks and composed of the mineral aragonite or calcite in a matrix, deposited in concentric layers as a protective coating around an irritating foreign object: valued as a gem when lustrous and finely colored. Compare cultured pearl.
2. something resembling this, as various synthetic substances for use in costume jewelry.
3. something similar in form, luster, etc., as a dewdrop or a capsule of medicine.
4. something precious or choice; the finest example of anything:
5. a very pale gray approaching white but commonly with a bluish tinge.
6. mother-of-pearl:
7. Printing. a 5-point type.
8. Also called epithelial pearl. Pathology. a rounded mass of keratin occurring in certain carcinomas of the skin.
9. a town in central Mississippi.
10. a female given name.
11. a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle. Compare knit (def 11).
12. one of a series of small loops along the edge of lace braid.
13. thread made of twisted gold or silver wire.

Idioms

1. cast pearls before swine, to offer or give something of great value to those incapable of appreciating it:

adjective

1. resembling a pearl in form or color.
2. of or relating to pearls:
3. set with a pearl or pearls or covered or inlaid with pearls or mother-of-pearl:
4. having or reduced to small, rounded grains.

verb (used with object)

1. to adorn or stud with or as with pearls.
2. to make like pearls, as in form or color.

verb (used without object)

1. to dive, fish, or search for pearls.
2. to assume a pearllike form or appearance.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to knit with a reverse stitch.
2. to finish with loops or a looped edging.

verb (used with or without object), noun

1. purl1 .

Origin of Pearl

1300-50; Middle English perle Middle French Italian or assumed Vulgar Latin *perla (> German Perle, Old English pærl), for Latin *pernula (> Portuguese perola, perhaps Old Saxon përula)

Examples for Pearl

In 1882, the pearl Street station, in lower Manhattan, went on line, with 59 customers – mostly businesses and factories.

What was America supposed to do after pearl Harbor, put the keys to the Golden Gate in an airmail envelope and send them to Tojo?

At halftime somebody had come into the dressing room and told us pearl Harbor had been bombed by the Japs.

Ourn was a shrewd rascal and nothing more nor less than a pearl poacher.

pearl Barley Water is made of an ounce of pearl barley, heated in half a pint of water over the fire in order to clean it.

But after pearl Harbor there was no longer a case for special pleading.

The artist quickly blamed event organizers, and he even criticized the band pearl Jam for making him late.

You shake it; it's the pearl stud there was last year—that's all.

"Just about as much as I gave you that pearl pin," retorted Kirkwood hotly.

He compares it to little things, to a tiny seed, to a handful of leaven, to a pearl.