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Ruby en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century. The programming language was named after the gemstone.

Meanings

1. (Cockney, slang) A curry; ellipsis of Ruby Murray.
   • We're going down the Indian for a Ruby; wanna join us?
   • No matter if you're Asian, Arab or Eskimo, everyone loves a ruby. 2002, John Sullivan, “Strangers on the Shore”, in Only Fools and Horses:

Ruby en · PROPN

Pronunciation

Etymology

The female name derives from ruby in the 19th century. The programming language was named after the gemstone.

Meanings

1. A female given name.
   • Ruby, my dear / Hold back that tear / I know he's gone / Your love has flown 1990, “Dear Ruby^([sic – meaning Ruby, My Dear])”, in Sally Swisher (lyrics), Thelonious Monk (music), Carmen Sings Monk, performed by Carmen McRae:
   • And those are her two daughters, Opal and Ruby. Her husband, Joshua, named them. He said they were to be the jewels of his old age. She would never have thought of names like that. There wasn't an ounce of sentiment in her body. 1992, Karen Kijewski, Kat's Cradle, page 76:
2. (rare) A surname.
3. (rare) A male given name.
4. A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
   • Ruby began life in Japan as the creation of Yukihiro Matsumoto, known more commonly as Matz. Unlike that of most language developers, Matz's motivation for Ruby was fun and a principle of “least surprise,” in order to improve overall developer productivity. 2017, Peter Cooper, Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Apress, →ISBN, page 100:
   • The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java. 2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022:
5. A city in Alaska.
6. A ghost town in Arizona.
7. A town in South Carolina.
8. A town in Wisconsin.
9. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
10. A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Deriveds

Rubyist · Rubygate

Translations (11)

mr रूबी (programming language) · eo Rubi (female given name) · mi Rupi (female given name) · fa روبی (programming language) · ko 루비 (female given name) · ur روبی (female given name) · hi रूबी (female given name) · ja ルビー (female given name) · fa روبی (female given name) · mr रूबी (female given name) · ru Руби (female given name)