ivory English

Meaning ivory meaning

What does ivory mean?

Definitions in simple English

ivory Noun

— Ivory is a creamy-white color.

— A hard creamy-white substance taken from the long tooth of an elephant.

ivory

— noun (= tusk) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

— noun (= bone) a shade of white the color of bleached bones

Synonyms ivory synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ivory?

ivory English » English

tusk

elephant tusk

pearl

off-white

bone

horn

fang

dentin

tooth

made of ivory

light-colored

elephant’s tusk

elephant

dentinum

creamy-white

creamy yellow

creamy

creamed-colour

cream

Topics ivory topics

What do people use ivory to talk about?

Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Jewel

• What types of jewels are there?
  agate amethyst beryl carnelian chalcedony chrysolite chrysoprase diamond emerald garnet ivory jacinth jasper marble onyx pearl quartz ruby sapphire sardonyx topaz

Person Body Head

Tooth

• What are the parts of a tooth?
  enamel root crown ivory

States Quality Light Color

White

• What words describe something that is white in color?
  white alabaster albino bleached chalky cream cream-colored creamy eggshell fair ivory lily-white milk-white milky off-white oyster white pearl pearly snowy snow-white

Examples ivory examples

How do I use ivory in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Ivory Coast is the world's biggest cocoa producer.

Elephant tusks are made out of ivory.

Elephants were killed for their ivory.

Movie subtitles

Technically it's ivory and Jayma's dress is Alaskan Snow.

Ivory from Indochina.

Smacks a mean ivory, eh, Rainsford?

Has that penetrated the ivory dome?

Ivory and gold. A lovely combination.

Why, I'm gonna build you an ivory tower with my own two hands.

For years they'd taken from the East nobody knows what spoils of gems precious metals, silks, ivory, sir.

You take her to the Gold Coast, load her with black ivory.

Teak, ivory, spices, silks, indigo.

And there goes ivory, down another seven.

Teak, silk, ivory, indigo.

In the shop. I could never quite afford it. The handle was real ivory.

From a shop. They swore it was real ivory.

Her mouth is a flower, her skin is like ivory.

She points her ivory-handled revolver into the dark, in the direction of the noise she heard, and she shoots.

And let a million pounds of ivory go to rot under the earth?

Enough ivory to supply the world.

Now let's get that ivory.

I can see a huge safari with you at the head. bearing ivory down to the coast.

If four of us start out and we found the ivory, only two would get back. and they wouldn't be us.

Did you drag me out to Africa to go after ivory or a woman?

How much ivory is there really up there?

He could have carried 150 pounds of ivory.

You know. even if there wasn't any ivory, I'd be glad I made the trek now.

You'll be much gladder when you see how much ivory there is.

Carry tons more ivory away.

They need the elephants to get the ivory, the tusks.

To get the ivory.

Elephant Tusks-Ivory-Gold of the Congo.

It's somebody robbing me of my ivory!

Me.tell.white trader. you.steal.ivory.

Word comes to me that it's you who's been stealing my ivory.

I'm simply crazy about this palace. Ivory and gold.

You talk about wanting to help me but what you want is to drag me into your ivory tower.

It's just that there's so much bushwa in this ivory greenroom they call the theatre, sometimes it gets up around my chin.

And the great whale shoots to all his ivory teeth. Like so many white bolts upon his prison.

Look at the ivory she's wearing.

I see you're wearing a bit of ivory yourself, sir.

When I got this ivory jib, all spanking new and scientific. why, I could've thanked that whale.

News and current affairs

The problem is not that cap and trade is an ivory-tower theory that cannot work in the real world; on the contrary, its performance surpassed expectations.

Of course, some criticisms of technocratic remedies may be populist posturing, but sometimes they contain insights that ivory-towered (and usually US-trained) technocrats miss.

Tens of thousands of troops from the EU's member states have been deployed outside of their home countries in Sierra Leone, Congo, Ivory Coast, Chad, Lebanon, and Afghanistan.

Likewise, South Africa was spared the horrors of genocide, as in Rwanda, and the endless conflict that has gripped Sri Lanka, Burundi, Sudan, the Ivory Coast, and many other countries.

In fact, the assault on IHL comes not simply from warlords from Ivory Coast to Chechnya to Aceh.

Unfortunately, Africa's wars--in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, Liberia, Sierre Leone, and the Ivory Coast--have not yet received the attention they require.

Take traditional handicrafts like jade and ivory carving.

The Ivory Coast miracle is now the Ivory Coast hell, where natives and non-natives live in fear.

But instead of international intervention, the Ivory Coast needs homegrown solutions for its problems.

But the Ivory Coast's dilemma is notable both because the country's decline came from a relatively greater height, and for the lessons it holds concerning how states fail.

At first sight, the Ivory Coast's post-colonial history looks like a variation on standard themes.

Yet the only real difference between most inhabitants of the Ivory Coast - which has the most immigrants of any West African country - is the timing of their forefathers' arrival.

The best hope for the Ivory Coast is probably a parliamentary-based system that will require inter-ethnic alliances to form governments.

Researchers are no longer confined within their ivory towers, but work as part of complex global networks alongside private-sector participants.

Congo and Lesotho each experienced two conflicts during the decade, while civil strife ravaged Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Congo, and Sudan.

But if economists were confined to the ivory tower, we might be unbiased, but we would also be ignorant of practicalities - and thus even less capable of predicting problems.