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# topaz

«topaz» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hard, clear gemstone, often golden-yellow, brown, blue…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a topaz, topazes; topaz — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Topaz is a hard, clear gemstone, often golden-yellow, brown, blue or pink, used in jewellery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/#m1)

2) A topaz is one jewel made of this stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/#m2)

3) Topaz is also a golden-yellow colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on rocks and minerals, topaz is number 8 on the Mohs scale of hardness (diamond is 10). In jewellery and stories, it is a precious birthstone (November). It appears in the Bible as one of the stones on the high priest's breastplate and in the walls of the heavenly city in Revelation. Phrases: «a topaz ring», «blue topaz».

### examples

- Mum's ring has a golden topaz in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/#x1)
- Topaz is harder than quartz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/#x2)
- Topaz is the birthstone for November. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/#x3)
- The museum showed a huge blue topaz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/#x4)
- On the Mohs scale, topaz scores 8. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/#x5)
- The cat's eyes were the colour of topaz. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/#x6)

### note

Plural «topazes». Pronounced «TOH-paz». On the Mohs hardness scale (1–10), a mineral scratches any mineral with a lower number.

### In the corpora

- [And they set in it four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and smaragd was the first row.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1193/)
- [The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.713/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «topaz» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/topaz/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.