Jade vs. Jasper

Jadenoun

A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

Jadenoun

A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.

Jadenoun

A horse too old to be put to work.

Jadenoun

A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.

Jadeadjective

Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

Jadeverb

To tire, weary or fatigue

Jadeverb

(obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.

Jadeverb

(obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

Jadenoun

A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples.

Jadenoun

A color resembling that of jade{1}; it varies from yellowish-green to bluish-green.

Jadenoun

A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.

Jadenoun

A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man.

Jadenoun

A young woman; - generally so called in irony or slight contempt.

Jadeverb

To treat like a jade; to spurn.

Jadeverb

To make ridiculous and contemptible.

Jadeverb

To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire, make dull, or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass.

Jadeverb

To become weary; to lose spirit.

Jadenoun

a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite

Jadenoun

a woman adulterer

Jadenoun

a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

Jadenoun

an old or over-worked horse

Jadeverb

get tired of something or somebody

Jadeverb

exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;

Jadeadjective

similar to the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green

Jadenoun

a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite

Jadenoun

an ornament made of jade.

Jadenoun

a light bluish-green

Jadenoun

a bad-tempered or disreputable woman.

Jadenoun

an old or worn-out horse.

Jade

Jade is an ornamental mineral, mostly known for its green varieties, though it appears naturally in other colors as well, notably yellow and white. Jade can refer to either of two different silicate minerals: nephrite (a silicate of calcium and magnesium in the amphibole group of minerals), or jadeite (a silicate of sodium and aluminium in the pyroxene group of minerals).

Jaspernoun

(obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.

Jaspernoun

An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.

Jaspernoun

Jasperware pottery.

Jaspernoun

A wasp.

Jaspernoun

A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.

Jaspernoun

An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper.

Jaspernoun

an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone

Jasper

Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to iron(III) inclusions.