Synonyms of the word ivory


IVORYBONE - DENTIN - DENTINE - OFF-WHITE - PEARL - TUSK - WHITE - WHITENESS

ivory

  • n. (uncountable) The hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
  • n. A creamy white colour, the colour of ivory.
  • n. Something made from or resembling ivory.
  • n. (collective singular or in plural) The teeth.
  • n. (collective singular or in plural) The keys of a piano.
  • n. (slang) A white person.
  • adj. Made of ivory.
  • adj. Resembling or having the colour of ivory.

bone

  • n. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up…
  • n. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  • n. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  • n. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  • n. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  • n. (figuratively) The framework of anything.
  • n. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  • n. (US, informal) A dollar.
  • n. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
  • n. (slang) Dominoes or dice.
  • adj. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  • v. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  • v. To fertilize with bone.
  • v. To put whalebone into.
  • v. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
  • v. (vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • v. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring…
  • v. (usually with "up") To study.
  • v. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
  • v. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level…
  • n. (slang) Clipping of trombone.

dentin

  • n. The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.

dentine

  • n. dentin.

off-white

  • n. A very pale colour that is almost white.
  • adj. Of a very pale colour that is almost white.

pearl

  • n. A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the…
  • n. (figuratively) Something precious.
  • n. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for e.g. medicinal application.
  • n. Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
  • n. A whitish speck or film on the eye.
  • n. A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
  • n. A light-colored tern.
  • n. One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
  • n. (uncountable, typography, printing, dated) The size of type between diamond and agate, standardized as…
  • n. A fringe or border.
  • n. (obsolete) A jewel or gem.
  • v. (also figuratively) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
  • v. To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains.
  • v. To resemble pearl or pearls.
  • v. To give or hunt for pearls.
  • v. (surfing) to dig the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.

tusk

  • n. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant…
  • n. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  • n. A tusk shell.
  • n. (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed…
  • v. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  • v. (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.
  • n. A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).

white

  • adj. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
  • adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
  • adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
  • adj. Relatively light or pale in colour.
  • adj. Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
  • adj. (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
  • adj. (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
  • adj. (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong…
  • adj. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
  • adj. Honourable, fair; decent.
  • adj. Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  • adj. (archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
  • adj. (obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
  • adj. (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
  • adj. (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
  • adj. (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
  • adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said…
  • n. The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
  • n. A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
  • n. The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
  • n. (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
  • n. Any butterfly of the Pieris genus.
  • n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
  • n. (countable and uncountable) White wine.
  • n. (slang) Cocaine.
  • n. (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which…
  • n. The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
  • n. A white pigment.
  • v. (transitive) To make white; to whiten; to bleach.

whiteness

  • n. The state of being white.

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