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Carat

noun

A unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.

The unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold. Synonyms: karat, kt.

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"Carat" Quotes from Famous Books

... me—hurry! Stop it, I tell you! You pinch." But she was warmly pink now, the shake of her head setting the heavy-carat gems in her ...

— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst

... of a crowd rubs out centuries of difference and shows one family blood in us all. Yet keep things poised. It was out of these crowds that there came the disciples and close friends to whom we now turn. There's gold in the crowds, finest twenty-four carat gold. It's all a matter of mining. Skilful mining gets out the gold. This wondrous Lover used the magnetic-current method of mining, the love-current. The strong warm current, the fine personal spirit current, drew out to Him the fine grains ...

— Quiet Talks on John's Gospel • S. D. Gordon

... scientific jargon, a great deal of impudence, and much good luck. All these things together so impressed the people that as often as not they would cry, "Miraculous!" In short, although the woman's ignorance was quite twenty-three carat she passed for a ...

— The Original Fables of La Fontaine - Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney • Jean de la Fontaine

Words linked to "Carat" : karat, decigram, kt, unit, g, gm, weight unit, gramme, unit of measurement, metric weight unit, gram, dg