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1. i., s. inci. inci; sedef; bes puntoluk harf. inci. inci. i., s. inci. inci, inci gibi. inci, sedef, beş puntoluk harf. inci avlamak, inci gibi top top olmak (ter, su), İncilerle süslemek.
2. pearl fishery inci avcılığı, beş puntoluk harf, zool, pearl fish incibalığı, matb, pearl diver, Alburnus lucidus, pearlerinci avcısı, pearl barley kabuğu soyulmuş ve yuvarlak hale getirilmiş arpa; sedef; inci gibi şey; inci rengi; inci; in; inci; inciy.
3. inci.
4. inci. inci gibi şey. sedef rengi. beş puntoluk harf. inci avlamak. incilerle süslemek.
5. inci. sedef. bes puntoluk harf.

Etymology : Middle English perle, from Middle French, probably from Vulgar Latin pernula, diminutive of Latin perna upper leg, kind of sea mussel; akin to Old English fiersn heel, Greek pternE
Pronunciation : p&r(-&)l
Function : noun
Date : 14th century

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1. white shiny bead commonly used for jewelry; beloved person. search for pearls, dive for pearls; extract pearls. pearlpearlescent having a play of lustrous rainbow-like colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster" [syn: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline].
2. A fringe or border.
3. To fringe; to border.
4. A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves.
5. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle.
6. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of- pearl.
7. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
8. Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
9. Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
10. A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
11. A light-colored tern.
12. One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
13. A whitish speck or film on the eye.
14. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
15. A size of type, between agate and diamond.
16. Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
17. To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
18. Used also figuratively.
19. To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
20. To resemble pearl or pearls.
21. To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling. a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean.
22. 1. A pearl is a hard round object which is shiny and creamy white in colour. Pearls grow inside the shell of an oyster and are used for making expensive jewellery. She wore a string of pearls at her throat see also: mother-of-pearl.
23. Pearl is used to describe something which looks like a pearl. tiny pearl buttons. Variant of purl. Concretion formed by a mollusk and consisting of the same material (called nacre, or mother-of-pearl) as the mollusk's shell. Long treasured as gemstones, pearls are valued for their translucence and lustre and for the delicate play of surface colour. The more perfect a pearl's shape and the deeper its lustre, the greater its value. The colour varies with the mollusk and its environment. Jewelers of the 16th-17th centuries often used irregularly shaped (baroque) pearls, formed from muscular tissue, to form the bodies of animals and other figures. In Europe and China, mother-of-pearl has been used as an inlay material for decorating furniture. The discovery that a pearl could be cultivated by insertion of a foreign object inside the mollusk's shell is said to have been made in 13th-century China. Bailey Pearl Mae Buck Pearl Pearl Sydenstricker Pearl Grey Pearl Harbor Pearl River Primus Pearl.